12-letter words containing h, p, g, l
- plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
- planing hull — a hull that tends to rise from the water when under way so that no significant amount of water is displaced beyond a certain speed.
- planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
- play through — to pass another foursome or group with their permission, while playing a round of golf
- plough horse — a horse used for pulling a plough
- ploughwright — a person who makes ploughs
- polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
- polarography — Chemistry. the use of a Polarograph to perform qualitative or quantitative analyses.
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polytriglyph — (in classical architecture) an intercolumniation of at least four triglyphs.
- pompholygous — characterized by pompholyx
- preschooling — the education of preschool children.
- preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
- psephologist — A psephologist studies how people vote in elections.
- psychologism — emphasis upon psychological factors in the development of a theory, as in history or philosophy.
- psychologist — a specialist in psychology.
- psychologize — to make psychological investigations or speculations, especially those that are naive or uninformed.
- pull through — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- push polling — the use of loaded questions in a supposedly objective telephone opinion poll during a political campaign in order to bias voters against an opposing candidate
- replenishing — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- sailing ship — a large ship equipped with sails.
- selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- shepherdling — a young or little shepherd
- shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- single-phase — noting or pertaining to a circuit having an alternating current with one phase or with phases differing by 180°.
- slap dashing — slab dashing.
- slip through — be undetected
- space flight — journey into outer space
- splash guard — a large flap behind a rear tire to prevent mud, water, etc., from being splashed on the following vehicle.
- sponge cloth — any cloth loosely woven of coarse yarn to produce a spongy look or texture, especially one constructed in honeycomb weave.
- spotlighting — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
- sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
- sprightfully — in a sprightful manner
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- stegophilist — a person who enjoys climbing up the outside of buildings
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
- telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
- telegraphese — a style of writing or speaking distinguished by the omissions, abbreviations, and combinations that are characteristic of telegrams, as in “ expect arrive six evening. ”.
- telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
- teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
- tight-lipped — speaking very little; taciturn; close-mouthed.
- tragelaphine — of or relating to a tragelaph
- webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- whaling ship — a ship engaged in whaling
- whelping ice — the ice on which a seal lies while giving birth in the spring.
- whimperingly — In a whimpering way.
- whisperingly — In a whispering manner; quietly.
- white plague — tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.