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16-letter words containing l, e, g, i, n

  • parliament hinge — a butt hinge the knuckle of which protrudes from the door so that the door when fully opened stands away from the wall.
  • partial ordering — a relation defined on a set, having the properties that each element is in relation to itself, the relation is transitive, and if two elements are in relation to each other, the two elements are equal.
  • pelagian islands — a group of Italian islands (Lampedusa, Linosa, and Lampione) in the Mediterranean, between Tunisia and Malta. Pop: 6066 (2004 est). Area: about 27 sq km (11 sq miles)
  • pelagic division — the biogeographic realm or zone that comprises the open seas and oceans, including water of all depths.
  • pelican crossing — place to cross road
  • people smuggling — People smuggling or people trafficking is the practice of bringing immigrants into a country illegally.
  • peregrine falcon — a globally distributed falcon, Falco peregrinus, much used in falconry because of its swift flight: several subspecies are endangered.
  • personal hygiene — bodily cleanliness
  • petrol rationing — a scheme rationing the amount of petrol that an individual is allowed to purchase
  • phenomenological — the study of phenomena.
  • philoprogenitive — producing offspring, especially abundantly; prolific.
  • philosopher king — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
  • philosopher-king — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
  • phylogenetically — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
  • picture moulding — the edge around a framed picture
  • pigeon guillemot — a black or brown-speckled seabird of the genus Cepphus, of northern seas, having a sharply pointed black bill, red legs, and white wing patches, as C. grylle (black guillemot) of the North Atlantic and the similar C. columba (pigeon guillemot) of the North Pacific.
  • pigs in blankets — small frankfurters wrapped in dough and baked, served as an appetizer
  • pitch-cone angle — (in a bevel gear) the apex angle of the truncated cone (pitch cone) which forms the reference surface on which the teeth of a bevel gear are cut
  • pleasure-seeking — always looking for pleasure
  • pneumonic plague — a form of plague characterized by lung involvement.
  • polarizing angle — the law that light will receive maximum polarization from a reflecting surface when it is incident to the surface at an angle (angle of polarization or polarizing angle) having a tangent equal to the index of refraction of the surface.
  • potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
  • potential energy — the energy of a body or a system with respect to the position of the body or the arrangement of the particles of the system.
  • pressure flaking — a method of manufacturing a flint tool by pressing flakes from a stone core with a pointed implement, usually of wood tipped with antler or copper.
  • pressure welding — the welding together of two objects by holding them together under pressure.
  • private language — a language that is not merely secret or accidentally limited to one user, but that cannot in principle be communicated to another
  • processing plant — a factory where raw materials are treated or prepared by a special method, esp one where food is treated in order to preserve it
  • progressive lens — a multifocal eyeglass lens that provides a continuous range of focal power between near and far distances.
  • project planning — project management
  • prolonged-action — sustained-release.
  • publicity agency — an advertising agency; a firm that gets publicity for people or products
  • publishing house — a company that publishes books, pamphlets, engravings, or the like: a venerable publishing house in Boston.
  • puddling-furnace — the act of a person or thing that puddles.
  • pull the strings — be in control
  • purple gallinule — a purple, blue, green, and white gallinule, Porphyrula martinica, inhabiting warmer areas of the New World, having a bright red, yellow, and blue bill, and lemon-yellow legs and feet.
  • quasi-managerial — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
  • queen's shilling — king's shilling.
  • radio evangelist — a Christian minister who devotes time to preaching on the radio
  • reading material — any matter that can be read; written or printed text
  • receiver general — a public official in charge of the government's treasury.
  • reckless driving — a serious traffic offence whereby the driver of a vehicle disregards the rules of the road, driving very dangerously, causing accidents or other damage
  • recycling scheme — a scheme enabling the public to recycle waste
  • reentering angle — an interior angle of a polygon that is greater than 180°.
  • refracting angle — an angle formed by a ray which is refracted and which is perpendicular to the refracting surface
  • regional council — the governing body in certain countries of a particular region or administrative division
  • regional ileitis — a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that causes scarring and thickening of the intestinal walls and frequently leads to obstruction.
  • regional network — mid-level network
  • regular gasoline — unleaded gasoline or petrol, as for fuelling a vehicle, etc
  • relative bearing — the bearing of an object, relative to the heading of a vessel or aircraft.
  • releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
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