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15-letter words containing o, p, e, d, a, g

  • old age pension — An old age pension is a regular amount of money that people receive from the government when they have retired from work.
  • onward progress — progress that advances or improves (a situation, etc)
  • package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
  • paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
  • paphian goddess — Aphrodite, worshiped in Cyprus as the goddess of sexual love.
  • pectoral girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the forelimbs.
  • pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
  • pelargonic acid — a colorless, oily, water-immiscible liquid, C 9 H 1 8 O 2 , occurring as an ester in a volatile oil in species of pelargonium: used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of lacquers and plastics.
  • photodegradable — (of a substance) capable of being broken down by light.
  • powder magazine — a compartment for the storage of ammunition and explosives.
  • prairie-dogging — (in an open-plan office) the practice of looking over the top of one's partition in order to discover the source of or reason for a commotion
  • predicate logic — (logic)   (Or "predicate calculus") An extension of propositional logic with separate symbols for predicates, subjects, and quantifiers. For example, where propositional logic might assign a single symbol P to the proposition "All men are mortal", predicate logic can define the predicate M(x) which asserts that the subject, x, is mortal and bind x with the universal quantifier ("For all"): All x . M(x) Higher-order predicate logic allows predicates to be the subjects of other predicates.
  • prestidigitator — sleight of hand; legerdemain.
  • product manager — sb who oversees product development
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
  • pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
  • radio programme — something that is broadcast on radio
  • radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
  • secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
  • sewage disposal — waste processing
  • shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
  • social spending — the money that is spent on welfare payments
  • take down a peg — to lower the pride or conceit of; humble or dispirit
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • to sow gapeseed — to stare in a gaping manner instead of attending to business
  • unchoreographed — not choreographed; not pre-arranged or pre-prepared; unplanned
  • xeroradiography — an x-ray utilizing a specially coated plate that allows a picture to be developed without the use of liquid chemicals.
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