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16-letter words containing p, a, g, l, i

  • encephalitogenic — That can cause encephalitis.
  • encephalographic — Relating to, or employing encephalography.
  • english-speaking — speaking English as a mother tongue
  • epigallocatechin — Gallocatechol.
  • epigrammatically — In a manner suggesting of an epigram.
  • ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
  • financial doping — the situation in which a sports franchise borrows heavily in order to contract and pay high-performing players, jeopardizing their long-term financial future
  • flying phalanger — any of various small phalangers of Australia and New Guinea, having a parachutelike fold of skin on each side of the body to give gliding assistance in leaping.
  • forward planning — business: making future provisions
  • fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
  • functional group — a group of atoms responsible for the characteristic behavior of the class of compounds in which the group occurs, as the hydroxyl group in alcohols.
  • galenic pharmacy — the art or practice of preparing and dispensing galenicals.
  • garbage disposal — A garbage disposal or a garbage disposal unit is a small machine in the kitchen sink that breaks down waste matter so that it does not block the sink.
  • gasoline-powered — using gasoline as fuel
  • general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
  • general practice — family practice.
  • geometrical pace — a pace of 5 feet (1.5 meters), representing the distance between the places at which the same foot rests on the ground in walking.
  • geomorphological — Of or pertaining to geomorphology.
  • gingerbread palm — doom palm.
  • gingerbread plum — a tree, Neocarya macrophylla, of western Africa, bearing a large, edible, starchy fruit.
  • granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
  • graphic language — For specifying graphic operations.
  • gravity platform — (in the oil industry) a drilling platform that rests directly on the sea bed and is kept in position by its own weight; it is usually made of reinforced concrete
  • great soil group — according to a system of classification that originated in Russia, any of several broad groups of soils with common characteristics usually associated with particular climates and vegetation types.
  • grim file reaper — (storage, operating system)   (GFR) An ITS and LISP Machine utility to remove files according to some program-automated or semi-automatic manual procedure, especially one designed to reclaim mass storage space or reduce name-space clutter (the original GFR actually moved files to tape). See also prowler, reaper. Compare GC, which discards only provably worthless stuff.
  • growth potential — capability of expanding
  • herpes genitalis — genital herpes.
  • hieroglyphically — In hieroglyphics.
  • high-pass filter — a filter that allows high-frequency electromagnetic signals to pass while rejecting or attenuating others below a specific value.
  • histopathologist — A person involved in histopathology.
  • holographic will — a will that is entirely in the handwriting of the testator: in some states recognized as valid without the attestation of witnesses.
  • hypersexualizing — Present participle of hypersexualize.
  • hyperventilating — Present participle of hyperventilate.
  • imago europe plc — A UK Internet provider. There sevice is called Imago On-line. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • in plain english — in clear and simple language
  • inflationary gap — the excess of total spending in an economy over the value, at current prices, of the output it can produce
  • isoplastic graft — syngraft.
  • japanese gelatin — agar (def 1).
  • lagrangian point — one of five points in the orbital plane of two bodies orbiting about their common center of gravity at which another body of small mass can be in equilibrium.
  • large-print book — a book where the text is printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
  • league champions — the team that has come top of the league
  • learning process — a process of learning
  • led page printer — LED printer
  • legal separation — judicial separation.
  • leptosporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a single cell, rather than from a group, and normally with specialized explosive spore dispersal
  • light adaptation — the reflex adaptation of the eye to bright light, consisting of an increase in the number of functioning cones, accompanied by a decrease in the number of functioning rods (opposed to dark adaptation).
  • lithographically — In the manner of lithography.
  • logical operator — any of the Boolean symbols or functions, as AND, OR, and NOT, denoting a Boolean operation; Boolean operator.
  • lymphangiectasia — (medicine) dilation of the lymphatic vessels.
  • lymphangiectasis — Alt form lymphangiectasia.
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