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17-letter words containing p, a, g, e, d

  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • landscaped garden — a garden that has been artistically designed
  • legal proceedings — court case
  • middle-age spread — an increase in bulk, especially in the waist and buttocks, associated with the onset of middle age and the body's decreasing ability to metabolize calories efficiently.
  • midmorning prayer — the third of the seven canonical hours; terce
  • midsagittal plane — a plane passing through the nasion when the skull is oriented in the Frankfurt horizontal.
  • new guinea pidgin — the variety of Neo-Melanesian spoken in Papua New Guinea and neighbouring islands
  • old age pensioner — An old age pensioner is a person who is old enough to receive an pension from their employer or the government.
  • open-end mortgage — a mortgage agreement against which new sums of money may be borrowed under certain conditions.
  • painted greenling — a greenling, Oxylebius pictus, inhabiting the Pacific coastal waters of North America, having a whitish body marked with black bands.
  • paradise regained — an epic poem (1671) by John Milton.
  • parking attendant — a person who works for a traffic control agency and who issues tickets for parking violations
  • partially sighted — unable to see properly so that even with corrective aids normal activities are prevented or seriously hindered
  • pate de foie gras — See under foie gras.
  • performance drugs — the drugs that are taken illegally by athletes to enhance their sporting performance
  • plug and feathers — an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
  • postage due stamp — a stamp that is affixed to mail at a post office when prepayment of postage is insufficient, to indicate the amount that must be collected from the addressee.
  • postural drainage — a therapy for clearing congested lungs by placing the patient in a position for drainage by gravity, often accompanied by percussion with hollowed hands.
  • powder metallurgy — the art or science of manufacturing useful articles by compacting metal and other powders in a die, followed by sintering.
  • predatory pricing — If a company practises predatory pricing, it charges a much lower price for its products or services than its competitors in order to force them out of the market.
  • prelingually deaf — deaf from birth or having acquired deafness before learning to speak
  • pressure gradient — the change of pressure per unit distance
  • proficiency badge — an insignia or device granted by the Girl Scouts and worn especially on a uniform to indicate special achievement.
  • programmed camera — a camera with electronic facilities for setting both aperture and shutter speed automatically on the basis of a through-the-lens light value and a given film speed
  • prolonged-release — A prolonged-release drug delivers a dose of a medication over an extended period of time.
  • pseudepigraphical — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • pseudo-aggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
  • pseudo-biological — pertaining to biology.
  • purple granadilla — the edible fruit of any of several species of passionflower, especially Passiflora edulis (purple granadilla) or P. quadrangularis (giant granadilla)
  • pyroligneous acid — a yellowish, acidic, water-soluble liquid, containing about 10 percent acetic acid, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood: used for smoking meats.
  • radiometeorograph — a device for the automatic transmission by radio of the data from a set of meteorological instruments
  • repeating decimal — a decimal numeral that, after a certain point, consists of a group of one or more digits repeated ad infinitum, as 2.33333 …. or 23.0218181818 ….
  • self-depreciating — self-deprecating.
  • shetland sheepdog — one of a breed of small sheepdogs resembling a miniature collie, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
  • sidewall sampling — Sidewall sampling is the process of taking a sample from the wall of the borehole.
  • six-speed gearbox — a gearbox containing a system of six gears
  • sliding vane pump — A sliding vane pump is a pump in which the vanes (=flat parts) are the main sealing element between the suction and discharge areas.
  • sound spectrogram — a graphic representation, produced by a sound spectrograph, of the frequency, intensity, duration, and variation with time of the resonance of a sound or series of sounds.
  • spitting distance — a short space or distance
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • spread your wings — if you spread your wings, you do something new and rather difficult or move to a new place, because you feel more confident in your abilities than you used to and you want to gain wider experience
  • spruce gall aphid — any of various homopterous insects of the family Adelgidae, as Adelges abietis (spruce gall aphid) and Pineus pinifoliae (pine leaf aphid) that feed and form galls on conifers.
  • standing expenses — fixed or flat expenses or charges
  • take in good part — to respond to (teasing) with good humour
  • vulcan death grip — (jargon)   A variant of Vulcan nerve pinch derived from a Star Trek classic epsisode where a non-existant "Vulcan death grip" was used to fool Romulans that Spock had killed Kirk.
  • well-photographed — a picture produced by photography.
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