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11-letter words containing m, e, g, a, p, r

  • murphy game — a confidence game in which the victim pays the swindler (Murphy Man) for something, as the services of a prostitute, which the swindler promises but the victim never receives
  • museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
  • myelography — the production of myelograms.
  • nomographer — the art of or a treatise on drawing up laws.
  • overprogram — to program (something) with unnecessary details or instructions
  • panicmonger — a person who spreads panic
  • papermaking — the art or action of making paper
  • 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.
  • paumgartner — Bernhard [bern-hahrt] /ˈbɛrn hɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1887–1971, Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist.
  • pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).
  • pepper game — a pregame warm-up performed at a brisk rate, in which one batter bunts back balls tossed by fielders stationed a short distance away.
  • permanganic — of or derived from permanganic acid.
  • phanerogams — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
  • phraseogram — a written symbol or combination of symbols, as in shorthand, used to represent a phrase.
  • pilgrimager — a pilgrim
  • pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
  • pomegranate — a chambered, many-seeded, globose fruit, having a tough, usually red rind and surmounted by a crown of calyx lobes, the edible portion consisting of pleasantly acid flesh developed from the outer seed coat.
  • pragmatizer — someone who pragmatizes
  • pre-embargo — an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
  • premarriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • presagement — an omen
  • primigenial — relating to an early stage of existence; primitive
  • programable — capable of being programmed.
  • prolegomena — a preliminary discussion; introductory essay, as prefatory matter in a book; a prologue.
  • promenading — a stroll or walk, especially in a public place, as for pleasure or display.
  • promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
  • spectrogram — a representation or photograph of a spectrum.
  • sugar maple — any of several maples having a sweet sap, especially Acer saccharum (the state tree of New York, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin), having a short trunk and long, curving branches, yielding a hard wood used for making furniture and being the chief source of maple sugar.
  • superorgasm — an extreme orgasm
  • swamp barge — A swamp barge is a vessel used for offshore drilling in very shallow water, which is towed out and then rests on the bottom.
  • thermograph — a thermometer that records the temperatures it measures.
  • unhampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
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