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13-letter words containing g, s, p

  • nailing strip — a strip of wood or other partly yielding material attached to a hard surface, as of steel or concrete, so that objects may be nailed to the surface.
  • nasopharynges — Plural form of nasopharynx.
  • newgroup wars — /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [Usenet] The salvos of dueling "newgroup" and "rmgroup" messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide, or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed. These usually settle out within a week or two as it becomes clear whether the group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times, especially in the completely anarchic alt hierarchy, the names of newsgroups themselves become a form of comment or humour; e.g. the spinoff of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork from alt.tv.muppets in early 1990, or any number of specialised abuse groups named after particularly notorious flamers, e.g. alt.weemba.
  • nitroso group — the univalent group O=N–.
  • noise shaping — (communications)   Spectral noise transformation in a quantisation processes. Noise is "colourised" in the time domain an/or frequency domain by adding parts of the previous sample. The SNR bandwidth and SNR time integral stay the same, so some noise decreases, some increases, but overall noise always increases. An example of noise shaping in the frequency domain is quantisation of samples on a Compact Disc to reduce noise below -98 dB. The are different algorithms with slightly different filters, e.g. Super Bitmapping, 4D Recording. A time domain example is MPEG-4 AAC TNS, which is a method to enhance quality by temporal forming of the noise in a transform block.
  • nondiapausing — lacking a diapause
  • nonpractising — of or relating to a person who no longer observes or pursues his or her religious faith
  • nosogeography — the study of the geographical causes and distribution of diseases.
  • ocean springs — a town in SE Mississippi.
  • oilspot glaze — a brown or black ceramic glaze dotted with silvery spots caused by impurities.
  • oligopeptides — Plural form of oligopeptide.
  • oligopolistic — the market condition that exists when there are few sellers, as a result of which they can greatly influence price and other market factors. Compare duopoly, monopoly (def 1).
  • olympic games — international sports event
  • onychophagist — the practice of biting one's nails, especially when done habitually and as a symptom of emotional disturbance.
  • open registry — ship registration under a national flag available to all ships regardless of nationality.
  • opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
  • opera glasses — small binoculars
  • opisthography — the practice of writing on the front and back of a parchment or papyrus
  • optical glass — any of several types of high-quality, homogeneous, color-free glass, as flint or crown glass, having specified refractive properties, used in lenses and other components of optical systems.
  • orchesography — a written study of dancing
  • organotropism — Physiology. the attraction of microorganisms or chemical substances to particular organs or tissues of the body.
  • orthographies — Plural form of orthography.
  • oscillographs — Plural form of oscillograph.
  • oscillography — 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.
  • ostreophagous — oyster-eating
  • outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
  • package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • pager message — a message received by a pager
  • painstakingly — taking or characterized by taking pains or trouble; expending or showing diligent care and effort; careful: a painstaking craftsman; painstaking research.
  • palingenesist — a person who believes in a doctrine of rebirth or transmigration of souls.
  • palos heights — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • pan-germanism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
  • pangola grass — a grass, Digitaria decumbens, native to southern Africa, cultivated for hay and forage in the southeastern U.S.
  • pangrammatist — a writer of pangrams
  • panic selling — widespread selling of a security or investment, causing sharp price declines. Usually caused by an unexpected event seen to devalue the security.
  • pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
  • pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • paradigm plus — A configurable object-oriented CASE tool from Proto Soft.
  • paramagnetism — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
  • parasite drag — the component of drag caused by skin friction and the shape of the surfaces not contributing to lift.
  • paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
  • parking strip — Chiefly Upper Midwest and Western U.S. parkway (def 2).
  • parma heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • parting strip — a strip, as of wood, used to keep two parts separated, as one in each side of the frame of a window to keep the sashes apart when lowered or raised.
  • passage grave — a megalithic tomb of the Neolithic and Copper or early Bronze ages found in the British Isles and Europe, consisting of a roofed burial chamber and narrow entrance passage covered by a round mound and containing human remains and funerary offerings.
  • passager hawk — young hawk or falcon caught while on migration
  • passenger car — carriage of a train
  • passenger jet — a jet that carries passengers
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