13-letter words containing g, u, n, p, e
- parade ground — A parade ground is an area of ground where soldiers practise marching and have parades.
- pease pudding — a pudding of strained split peas mixed with egg.
- piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
- plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
- plunging fire — artillery or other fire that strikes the ground at a steep angle, as from high ground overlooking the target or from a weapon fired at a high angle of elevation.
- pneumatograph — pneumograph.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- pole-vaulting — a field sport in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
- polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
- port language — ["Communicating Parallel Processes", J. Kerridge et al, Soft Prac & Exp 16(1):63-86 (Jan 1986)].
- prague spring — a brief period of democratization in Czechoslovakia in 1968, under Alexander Dubček.
- preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
- prefigurement — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
- press cutting — an article or picture from a newspaper about someone or something
- price cutting — the act or practice of cutting prices
- primogeniture — the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents.
- product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
- prolegomenous — prefatory; preliminary; introductory.
- protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
- pruning knife — a knife used for pruning
- psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
- pudding stone — conglomerate (def 3).
- pulling power — the ability to attract and influence other people
- pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
- purse strings — hold the purse strings, to have the power to determine how money shall be spent.
- putting green — green (def 24).
- quaking aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- queue-jumping — If you accuse someone of queue-jumping, you mean that they are trying to get to the front of a queue or waiting list unfairly.
- quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
- reading group — a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a book that they have all read
- regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
- rumelgumption — commonsense
- rumlegumption — commonsense
- scavenge pump — an oil pump used in some internal-combustion engines to return oil from the crankcase to the oil tank
- serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- sleeping suit — an all-in-one outfit that babies and young children sleep in
- speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
- spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
- spinning mule — mule1 (def 7).
- splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
- sponge rubber — a light, spongy rubber, usually prepared by bubbling carbon dioxide through or whipping air into latex, used for padding, insulation, gaskets, etc.; foam rubber.
- spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
- spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
- steganopodous — belonging to the Stegandopodes or having all four toes webbed together
- straighten up — stand straighter
- string-puller — a person who uses his or her influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
- sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
- superorganism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.