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12-letter words containing g, s, a, p

  • oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
  • opera singer — a professional singer of opera
  • ophiophagous — eating snakes.
  • opisthograph — a manuscript, parchment, or book having writing on both sides of the leaves.
  • oscillograph — a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • packing case — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
  • packing slip — A packing slip is a list of what is included in a shipment.
  • packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
  • paedogenesis — sexual reproduction in an animal that retains its larval features
  • pair skating — a form of competitive skating in which a man and a woman skate together in performing a choreographed series of jumps, lifts, and other acrobatic moves to a selection of music.
  • paki-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked physical assaults upon Pakistani immigrants or people of Pakistani descent
  • palais glide — a dance with high kicks and gliding steps in which performers link arms in a row
  • palingenesis — rebirth; regeneration.
  • palm springs — a city in S California: resort.
  • palynologist — the study of live and fossil spores, pollen grains, and similar plant structures.
  • pampas grass — a tall, ornamental grass, Cortaderia selloana, native to South America, having large, thick, feathery, silvery-white panicles.
  • panning shot — pan3 (def 6).
  • pantophagist — an omnivore
  • pantophagous — characterized by pantophagy
  • paraglossate — having paraglossae
  • paragnathism — the condition or fact of having upper and lower jaws of equal length
  • paragnathous — (of certain vertebrates) having the upper and lower jaws of equal length
  • paralysingly — in a manner that paralyses
  • paraphrasing — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
  • parascending — parasailing
  • parasitology — the branch of biology dealing with parasites and the effects of parasitism.
  • parting shot — a threat, insult, condemnation, sarcastic retort, or the like, uttered upon leaving.
  • pass through — an act of passing.
  • pass-through — a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.
  • passage hawk — a young hawk during its first migration.
  • passage work — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
  • passing bell — a bell tolled to announce a death or funeral.
  • passing lane — a highway lane in which a driver may pass other vehicles legally.
  • passing note — a note that is foreign to a harmony and is introduced between two successive chord tones in order to produce a melodic transition.
  • passing shot — a shot played to one side of and beyond the reach of an opponent coming to or stationed at the net.
  • pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • pathogeneses — the production and development of disease.
  • pathogenesis — the production and development of disease.
  • paving stone — slab used to lay a path
  • paying guest — lodger
  • pearly gates — the entrance to heaven.
  • perez galdos — Benito [buh-nee-toh;; Spanish be-nee-taw] /bəˈni toʊ;; Spanish bɛˈni tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1843–1920, Spanish journalist, dramatist, and novelist.
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • pestological — relating to pestology
  • pet scanning — the action or process of using a PET scanner to obtain an image.
  • phagocytoses — phagocytize.
  • phagocytosis — Physiology. the ingestion of a smaller cell or cell fragment, a microorganism, or foreign particles by means of the local infolding of a cell's membrane and the protrusion of its cytoplasm around the fold until the material has been surrounded and engulfed by closure of the membrane and formation of a vacuole: characteristic of amebas and some types of white blood cells.
  • phragmoplast — the cytoplasmic structure that forms at the equator of the spindle after the chromosomes have divided during the anaphase of plant mitosis, and that initiates cell division.
  • phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
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