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15-letter words containing o, p, u, g, n, a

  • pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
  • perforating gun — A perforating gun is a device used to make holes in oil and gas wells in preparation for production.
  • pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
  • phonautographic — relating to a phonautograph or a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
  • pinochet ugarte — Augusto [ou-goos-taw] /aʊˈgus tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1915–2006, Chilean army general and political leader: president 1973–90.
  • plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • product manager — sb who oversees product development
  • program counter — (hardware)   (PC) A register in the central processing unit that contains the addresss of the next instruction to be executed. After each instruction is fetched, the PC is automatically incremented to point to the following instruction. It is not normally manipulated like an ordinary register but instead, special instructions are provided to alter the flow of control by writing a new value to the PC, e.g. JUMP, CALL, RTS.
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
  • pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
  • repeating group — (database)   Any attribute that can have multiple values associated with a single instance of some entity. For example, a book might have multiple authors. Such a "-to-many" relationship might be represented in an unnormalised relational database as multiple author columns in the book table or a single author(s) column containing a string which was a list of authors. Converting this to "first normal form" is the first step in database normalisation. Each author of the book would appear in a separate row along with the book's primary key. Later nomalisation stages would move the book-author relationship into a separate table to avoid repeating other book attibutes (e.g. title, publisher) for each author.
  • sauce espagnole — brown sauce.
  • secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
  • spawning ground — a place where fish deposit their eggs for fertilization
  • stamping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • thought pattern — habitual way of thinking
  • ultrasonography — a diagnostic imaging technique utilizing reflected high-frequency sound waves to delineate, measure, or examine internal body structures or organs.
  • unchoreographed — not choreographed; not pre-arranged or pre-prepared; unplanned
  • uncomplainingly — in an unresentful or resigned manner
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • undisappointing — not disappointing
  • upper arlington — a city in central Ohio, near Columbus.
  • uropygial gland — a gland opening on the back at the base of the tail in most birds that secretes an oily fluid used by the bird in preening its feathers.
  • washing-up bowl — plastic bowl used for washing dishes
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