14-letter words containing p, a, g, e
- imperial eagle — a brown eagle, Aquila heliaca, of Asia and southern Europe: the subspecies A. heliaca adalberti is endangered.
- impregnability — strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable: an impregnable fort.
- in a pig's eye — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- in high places — People in high places are people who have powerful and influential positions in a government, society, or organization.
- inland passage — Inside Passage
- inside passage — protected sea route along the W coast of North America, from Seattle, Wash., to the N part of the Alas. panhandle: the route uses channels and straits between islands and the mainland: c. 950 mi (1,529 km) long
- interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
- king's pattern — a spoon pattern of the 19th century having a stem decorated with threads, scrolls, and shell motifs.
- knight templar — Templar.
- l-asparaginase — an enzyme that destroys asparagine, a nonessential amino acid needed as a nutrient by rapidly growing cells: used in treating leukemia
- la grange park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- lake nipissing — a lake in central Canada, in E Ontario between the Ottawa River and Georgian Bay. Area: 855 sq km (330 sq miles)
- lappet weaving — weaving into which an embroidered pattern produced by additional warp threads has been introduced with the aid of a lappet.
- lapsus linguae — a slip of the tongue.
- laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
- lead poisoning — Pathology. a toxic condition produced by ingestion, inhalation, or skin absorption of lead or lead compounds, resulting in various dose-related symptoms including anemia, nausea, muscle weakness, confusion, blindness, and coma. Also called plumbism, saturnism. this condition occurring in adults whose work involves contact with lead products.
- leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
- legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
- leptomeningeal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the leptomeninges.
- lexicographers — Plural form of lexicographer.
- lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
- lexington park — a town in S Maryland.
- lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
- lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
- magnetic epoch — a geologically long period of time during which the magnetic field of the earth retains the same polarity. The magnetic field may reverse during such a period for a geologically short period of time (a magnetic event)
- magnetic strip — a strip of magnetic material on which information may be stored, as by an electromagnetic process, for automatic reading, decoding, or recognition by a device that detects magnetic variations on the strip: a credit card with a magnetic strip to prevent counterfeiting.
- magnetooptical — Having both magnetic and optical elements.
- magnetospheres — Plural form of magnetosphere.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
- manganese spar — Mineralogy. rhodonite or rhodochrosite.
- mangrove swamp — a coastal marine swamp of tropical or subtropical regions that is dominated by mangrove trees.
- massage parlor — a commercial establishment providing massages.
- masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- medigap policy — A Medigap policy is a private extra health insurance plan in the U.S. that provides coverage for medical expenses that are not or only partially covered by Medicare.
- megalocephalic — Cephalometry, Craniometry. macrocephalic.
- megascopically — macroscopically
- megasporangium — a sporangium containing megaspores.
- megasporophyll — a sporophyll producing megasporangia only.
- memory mapping — a technique whereby computer peripherals may be addressed as though they formed part of the main memory of the computer
- mercapto group — the univalent group –SH.
- metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
- metamorphizing — Present participle of metamorphize.
- metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- metapragmatics — Language that characterizes or describes the pragmatic function of some speech.
- metapsychology — speculative thought dealing systematically with concepts extending beyond the limits of psychology as an empirical science.
- micropegmatite — a rock with a microscopic pegmatitic structure
- middle passage — the part of the Atlantic Ocean between the west coast of Africa and the West Indies: the longest part of the journey formerly made by slave ships.
- mind-expanding — heightening perceptions in a hallucinatory way: mind-expanding drugs.
- mineral spring — a spring of water that contains a significant amount of dissolved minerals.