12-letter words containing l, a, g, r, n
- overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
- pack rolling — the hot rolling of metal sheets in two or more thicknesses to produce composite sheets.
- palm springs — a city in S California: resort.
- panty girdle — women's control pants
- paralanguage — vocal features that accompany speech and contribute to communication but are not generally considered to be part of the language system, as vocal quality, loudness, and tempo: sometimes also including facial expressions and gestures.
- parallelling — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
- paralysingly — in a manner that paralyses
- parlor grand — a grand piano smaller than a concert grand but larger than a baby grand.
- partializing — to bias.
- parting line — the line at which two closed dies or two halves of a mold meet.
- patrilineage — lineal descent traced through the male line.
- patrol wagon — an enclosed truck or van used by the police to transport prisoners.
- pearl diving — the act of diving for the precious gems pearls
- perinatology — a field of medicine focusing on problems emerging during the perinatal period.
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- pharyngology — the science of the pharynx and its diseases.
- philandering — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- pig islander — a New Zealander
- pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
- plagiarising — to take and use by plagiarism.
- planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
- play reading — the activity when a group of people read the parts of a play
- playing card — one of the conventional set of 52 cards in four suits, as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs, used in playing various games of chance and skill.
- plea bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
- plea-bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
- pollen grain — a single granule of pollen.
- popular song — a song that is written to have an immediate and wide appeal and is usually popular for only a short time, but that sometimes is of a sufficiently high quality to become part of the permanent repertoire of popular music and jazz. Compare standard (def 12).
- port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
- powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- pre-language — a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
- pre-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- pre-planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
- prelingually — in a prelingual manner
- premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
- primogenital — relating to primogeniture
- prodigal son — a figure in a parable of Jesus (Luke 15:11–32); a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him.
- prolog-linda — 1. Prolog extended with Linda-style parallelism. Proc 4th Australian Conf on Artif Intell. 2. Neil MacDonald, U Edinburgh 1989. Another Prolog extended with Linda, implemented on a Computing Surface.
- prolongation — the act of prolonging: the prolongation of a line.
- promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- proteoglycan — a macromolecule composed of a polysaccharide joined to a polypeptide and forming the ground substance of connective tissue.
- quadrangular — having four angles and four sides; having the shape of a quadrangle.
- radical sign — the symbol √ or indicating extraction of a root of the quantity that follows it, as √25=5 or .
- ragman rolls — Usually, ragman rolls. a series of documents in which the Scottish nobles acknowledged their allegiance to Edward I of England, 1291–92 and 1296.
- rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
- rallying cry — A rallying cry or rallying call is something such as a word or phrase, an event, or a belief which encourages people to unite and to act in support of a particular group or idea.
- ranging pole — a pole for marking positions in surveying
- re-alignment — an adjustment to a line; arrangement in a straight line.
- re-challenge — to challenge (someone or something) again
- reading lamp — A reading lamp is a small lamp that you keep on a desk or table. You can move part of it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading.