13-letter words containing g, s, p
- impersonating — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- impoverishing — Present participle of impoverish.
- improgressive — (archaic) Not progressive.
- in good shape — person: fit, healthy
- inspiritingly — In an inspiriting manner.
- interspersing — Present participle of intersperse.
- introspecting — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- ipecac spurge — a spurge, Euphorbia ipecacuanhae, of the eastern U.S.
- isoamyl group — the univalent group C 5 H 11 .
- jigsaw puzzle — Also called picture puzzle. a set of irregularly cut pieces of pasteboard, wood, or the like that form a picture or design when fitted together.
- jumping genes — transposon.
- jumping mouse — any of several primitive, mouselike rodents of the family Zapodidae, having long hind legs, common in the woodlands of Europe, Asia, and North America.
- jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
- killing spree — a series of murders that are committed
- king's speech — (in the British Parliament) a speech reviewing domestic conditions and foreign relations, prepared by the ministry in the name of the sovereign, and read at the opening of the Parliament either by the sovereign in person or by commission.
- klipspringers — Plural form of klipspringer.
- kyrgyz steppe — a vast steppe region in central Kazakhstan
- landing speed — the minimum air speed at which an aircraft lands safely
- landing strip — airstrip.
- laryngoscopes — Plural form of laryngoscope.
- laryngoscopic — Of or pertaining to laryngoscopy.
- leapfrog test — a diagnostic technique using arithmetic or logical operations in a routine to manage the capacity of storage media, transfer data, and check the results.
- legal process — court procedure
- leptomeninges — The inner two meninges, the arachnoid and the pia mater, between which circulates the cerebrospinal fluid.
- letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
- lithoglyptics — The art of cutting and engraving gems.
- lump of sugar — lump1 (def 4).
- lymphangiomas — Plural form of lymphangioma.
- magnetographs — Plural form of magnetograph.
- magnetooptics — the branch of physics that deals with magnetooptic phenomena.
- magnetosphere — the outer region of the earth's ionosphere, where the earth's magnetic field controls the motion of charged particles, as in the Van Allen belts. Compare magnetopause.
- maple heights — a city in NE Ohio.
- masking piece — a flat, curtain, or other piece of scenery for concealing a part of a stage from the audience.
- mastigophoran — Also, mastigophore [mas-ti-guh-fawr, -fohr] /ˈmæs tɪ gəˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr/ (Show IPA). a protozoan of the phylum Mastigophora.
- mastigophoric — Carrying or wielding a whip.
- measuring cup — a graduated cup used especially in cooking for measuring ingredients.
- megalopolises — Plural form of megalopolis.
- megasporangia — a sporangium containing megaspores.
- megasporocyte — a diploid cell in plants that undergoes meiosis to create four haploid megaspores.
- miami springs — a town in SE Florida, near Miami.
- micrographics — the technique of photographing written or printed pages in reduced form to produce microfilm or microfiche.
- microprograms — Plural form of microprogram.
- misperceiving — Present participle of misperceive.
- moneyspinning — earning money or making a profit
- morphogenesis — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
- mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
- mule spinning — a process of spinning that produces extremely fine yarn by drawing and twisting the roving, and winding the resultant yarn onto a bobbin or spindle in the form of a cop.
- mycetophagous — That feeds on fungi.
- myringoplasty — (surgery) The closure of the perforation of pars tensa of the tympanic membrane.
- mythographies — Plural form of mythography.