13-letter words containing n, e, o, p, a, g
- gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
- grand opening — celebratory first-day event
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
- heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
- heating power — power that can be used to heat something
- heliographing — Present participle of heliograph.
- hemp agrimony — a European composite plant, Eupatorium cannabinum, having dull purplish flowers.
- hypothecating — Present participle of hypothecate.
- iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
- impersonating — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- in good shape — person: fit, healthy
- interpolating — Present participle of interpolate.
- kernel parlog — (language) A modeless intermediate language for Parlog compilation.
- kinematograph — cinematograph.
- laryngoscopes — Plural form of laryngoscope.
- leap-frogging — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
- locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
- longleaf pine — an American pine, Pinus palustris, valued as a source of turpentine and for its timber.
- magnetic pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
- magnetographs — Plural form of magnetograph.
- magnetooptics — the branch of physics that deals with magnetooptic phenomena.
- magnetosphere — the outer region of the earth's ionosphere, where the earth's magnetic field controls the motion of charged particles, as in the Van Allen belts. Compare magnetopause.
- megalopolitan — of, relating to, or characteristic of a megalopolis.
- megasporangia — a sporangium containing megaspores.
- mimeographing — Present participle of mimeograph.
- molding plane — a plane having a blade or a number of blades profiled to form moldings.
- morning paper — a paper published the night before for distribution in the morning (as opposed to an evening paper)
- mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
- name-dropping — the introduction into one's conversation, letters, etc., of the names of famous or important people as alleged friends or associates in order to impress others.
- nasopharynges — Plural form of nasopharynx.
- negative pole — the south-seeking pole of a magnet
- nephrological — of or relating to nephrology
- newgroup wars — /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [Usenet] The salvos of dueling "newgroup" and "rmgroup" messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide, or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed. These usually settle out within a week or two as it becomes clear whether the group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times, especially in the completely anarchic alt hierarchy, the names of newsgroups themselves become a form of comment or humour; e.g. the spinoff of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork from alt.tv.muppets in early 1990, or any number of specialised abuse groups named after particularly notorious flamers, e.g. alt.weemba.
- noise shaping — (communications) Spectral noise transformation in a quantisation processes. Noise is "colourised" in the time domain an/or frequency domain by adding parts of the previous sample. The SNR bandwidth and SNR time integral stay the same, so some noise decreases, some increases, but overall noise always increases. An example of noise shaping in the frequency domain is quantisation of samples on a Compact Disc to reduce noise below -98 dB. The are different algorithms with slightly different filters, e.g. Super Bitmapping, 4D Recording. A time domain example is MPEG-4 AAC TNS, which is a method to enhance quality by temporal forming of the noise in a transform block.
- nonpathogenic — Pathology. capable of producing disease: pathogenic bacteria.
- nonprogrammer — a person who is not a programmer
- nosogeography — the study of the geographical causes and distribution of diseases.
- ocean springs — a town in SE Mississippi.
- oceanographer — the branch of physical geography dealing with the ocean.
- oceanographic — the branch of physical geography dealing with the ocean.
- open learning — a system of further education on a flexible part-time basis
- open marriage — a marriage in which the partners agree that each is free to have sexual relationships with other partners.
- organotherapy — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the use of remedies prepared from the organs of animals, as from the thyroid gland, the pancreas, or the suprarenal bodies.
- oropharyngeal — the part of the pharynx between the soft palate and the upper edge of the epiglottis.
- over-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.