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11-letter words containing l, a, g, e

  • palsgravine — the wife or widow of a palsgrave.
  • panegyrical — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
  • pantheology — a branch of theology embracing all gods and all religions
  • paralleling — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
  • parcel-gilt — the gilding of only some areas or ornaments of a piece of furniture.
  • parlor game — any game usually played indoors, especially in the living room or parlor, as a word game or a quiz, requiring little or no physical activity.
  • pathologies — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
  • pathologize — to represent (something) as a disease
  • pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
  • pedagogical — of or relating to a pedagogue or pedagogy.
  • pedological — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.
  • pelagianism — a follower of Pelagius, who denied original sin and believed in freedom of the will.
  • pelagius ii — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
  • pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).
  • pencil gate — any of a large number of narrow gates used for rapid distribution of metal in large castings.
  • penological — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
  • pentangular — having five angles and five sides; pentagonal.
  • periglacial — occurring or operating adjacent to the margin of a glacier.
  • phase angle — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
  • phlebograph — an instrument for recording the venous pulse.
  • phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
  • pilgrimager — a pilgrim
  • plagiarised — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • plagiarizer — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • plagioclase — any of the feldspar minerals varying in composition from acidic albite, NaAlSi 3 O 8 , to basic anorthite, CaAl 2 Si 2 O 8 , found in most igneous rocks: shows twinning striations on good cleavage surfaces.
  • plagiostome — (of fish) belonging to the genus Plagiostomi, which includes sharks and rays, characterized by a transverse mouth with the jaw suspended from the skull
  • plane angle — an angle between two intersecting lines.
  • planet gear — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
  • planetology — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
  • planogamete — a motile gamete.
  • plantagenet — a member of the royal house that ruled England from the accession of Henry II in 1154 to the death of Richard III in 1485.
  • plantigrade — walking on the whole sole of the foot, as humans, and bears.
  • plasmalogen — any of the class of phosphatides that contain an aldehyde of a fatty acid, found in heart and skeletal muscle, the brain, the liver, and in eggs.
  • plasminogen — the blood substance that when activated forms plasmin.
  • plate glass — a soda-lime-silica glass formed by rolling the hot glass into a plate that is subsequently ground and polished, used in large windows, mirrors, etc.
  • platemaking — the act of making plates
  • plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
  • polar angle — Usually, polar coordinates. one of two coordinates used to locate a point in a plane by the length of its radius vector and the angle this vector makes with the polar axis (polar angle)
  • polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
  • pony league — a baseball league similar to a Little League and having teams whose players are from 13 to 14 years of age.
  • powder flag — red flag (def 4).
  • poyang lake — a lake in E China, in N Jiangxi province, connected by canal with the Yangtze River: the second largest lake in China. Area (at its greatest): 2780 sq km (1073 sq miles)
  • prayer flag — a flag stamped with printed prayers, used by Himalayan Buddhists, who believe that its fluttering sends out the prayers inscribed on it.
  • pre-algebra — the branch of mathematics that deals with general statements of relations, utilizing letters and other symbols to represent specific sets of numbers, values, vectors, etc., in the description of such relations.
  • preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
  • preen gland — uropygial gland.
  • preterlegal — being beyond the scope or limits of law.
  • primigenial — relating to an early stage of existence; primitive
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