13-letter words containing n, u, g, a
- pantagruelian — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- parade ground — A parade ground is an area of ground where soldiers practise marching and have parades.
- pease pudding — a pudding of strained split peas mixed with egg.
- phonautograph — a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
- pigouvian tax — a tax levied to counter an economic negative externality, for example taxing producers of industrial pollution in order to encourage pollution control
- piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
- plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
- plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
- plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
- plug and play — (sometimes lowercase) a standard for the production of compatible computers, peripherals, and software that facilitates device installation and enables automatic configuration of the system.
- plug and pray — (humour) The Windows 95 equivalent of the Macintosh's plug and play, referring to difficulties encountered when setting up new hardware under Windows 95.
- plug-and-play — Plug-and-play is used to describe computer equipment, for example a printer, that is ready to use immediately when you connect it to a computer.
- plural voting — right to vote more than once
- pneumatograph — pneumograph.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- pole-vaulting — a field sport in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
- polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
- port language — ["Communicating Parallel Processes", J. Kerridge et al, Soft Prac & Exp 16(1):63-86 (Jan 1986)].
- postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
- pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
- prague spring — a brief period of democratization in Czechoslovakia in 1968, under Alexander Dubček.
- prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
- product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
- protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
- pudding basin — A pudding basin is a deep round bowl that is used in the kitchen, especially for mixing or for cooking puddings.
- pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
- quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
- quadrilingual — using or involving four languages: a quadrilingual person; a quadrilingual translation of the Bible.
- quadringenary — a 400th anniversary
- quaking aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- quaking grass — any of several grasses of the genus Briza, having spikelets with slender, drooping stalks.
- quarter grain — the grain appearing in quartersawed wood.
- queen dowager — the widow of a king.
- queen regnant — a queen who reigns on her own behalf
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
- quinquagenary — a 50th anniversary.
- quinquagesima — the Sunday before Lent; Shrove Sunday.
- quota-hopping — (in the EU) the practice of obtaining the right to catch a part of a country's national quota for fish in European waters by buying licences from its fishermen
- rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
- raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
- rambling club — a club for people who enjoy taking walks in the country
- re-evaluating — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
- re-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- reacquainting — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
- reading group — a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a book that they have all read
- regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
- regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.