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12-letter words containing i, r, g, a, t

  • optical grep — vgrep
  • orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
  • oregon trail — a route used during the U.S. westward migrations, especially in the period from 1840 to 1860, starting in Missouri and ending in Oregon. About 2000 miles (3200 km) long.
  • organisation — the act or process of organizing.
  • organization — the act or process of organizing.
  • organoleptic — perceived by a sense organ.
  • organotropic — designating or of a substance or virus that travels predominantly to a specific organ
  • oriental rug — a rug or carpet woven usually in Asia and characterized by hand-knotted pile.
  • originations — Plural form of origination.
  • ornithogalum — any plant of the genus Ornithogalum
  • orthognathic — straight-jawed; having the profile of the face vertical or nearly so; having a gnathic index below 98.
  • orthographic — of or relating to orthography.
  • out-marriage — a marriage to someone outside one's ethnic group
  • outmigration — to leave a region, community, etc., to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory: People are no longer out-migrating from the South in such large numbers.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
  • overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
  • overfatigued — excessively fatigued
  • overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
  • page printer — Computers. a high-speed, high-resolution printer that uses a light source, as a laser beam or electrically charged ions, to print a full page of text or graphics at a time.
  • paint bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
  • 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.
  • panty girdle — women's control pants
  • paper-weight — a small, heavy object of glass, metal, etc., placed on papers to keep them from scattering.
  • paradigmatic — of or relating to a paradigm.
  • paragnathism — the condition or fact of having upper and lower jaws of equal length
  • paramagnetic — 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.
  • parasitology — the branch of biology dealing with parasites and the effects of parasitism.
  • part-writing — the aspect of composition concerned with the writing of parts, esp counterpoint
  • partializing — to bias.
  • parting line — the line at which two closed dies or two halves of a mold meet.
  • parting shot — a threat, insult, condemnation, sarcastic retort, or the like, uttered upon leaving.
  • partitioning — Partitioning is when a solute is distributed between two phases in a separation process.
  • 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.
  • patent right — the exclusive right granted by a patent, as on an invention.
  • pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
  • patrilineage — lineal descent traced through the male line.
  • perinatology — a field of medicine focusing on problems emerging during the perinatal period.
  • perpetrating — to commit: to perpetrate a crime.
  • perpetuating — to make perpetual.
  • photographic — of or relating to photography.
  • physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
  • pictographic — a pictorial sign or symbol.
  • pig-ignorant — extremely ignorant or unknowledgeable
  • plagiaristic — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
  • plagiotropic — growing more or less divergent from the vertical.
  • plate girder — an iron or steel beam built up from plates and shapes welded or riveted together, usually including a plate or plates for a web, four angle irons forming two flanges, and a pair of plates to reinforce the flanges.
  • poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
  • pogson ratio — the brightness ratio of two celestial objects that differ by one magnitude. On the Pogson scale a difference of 5 magnitudes is defined as a difference of 100 in the intensities of two stars; therefore a difference of 1 magnitude is equal to the fifth root of 100, i.e. 2.512
  • point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
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