14-letter words containing p, a, l, s, g, r
- phraseological — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
- plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
- polygraph test — a test carried out using a polygraph, esp used by the police to try to find out whether somebody is telling the truth
- popular singer — a professional singer who specializes in popular songs.
- pressing plant — a manufacturing plant where phonograph records are produced by pressing in a mold or by stamping.
- progestational — prepared for pregnancy, as the lining of the uterus prior to menstruation or in the early stages of gestation itself; progravid.
- prognostically — of or relating to prognosis.
- prostate gland — an organ that surrounds the urethra of males at the base of the bladder, comprising a muscular portion, which controls the release of urine, and a glandular portion, which secretes an alkaline fluid that makes up part of the semen and enhances the motility and fertility of sperm.
- pulsating star — a type of variable star, the variation in brightness resulting from expansion and subsequent contraction of the star
- pyramidologist — a person who believes in pyramidology
- samuel gompers — Samuel, 1850–1924, U.S. labor leader, born in England: president of the American Federation of Labor 1886–94, 1896–1924.
- scribbling pad — a notebook or sketchbook
- self-operating — automatic.
- self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
- selling plater — a horse that competes in a selling race; an inferior horse.
- selling-plater — a horse that competes in a selling race; an inferior horse.
- sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
- sigma particle — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- singular point — a point at which a given function of a complex variable has no derivative but of which every neighborhood contains points at which the function has derivatives.
- sleep learning — the act or process of learning during sleep by listening to recordings repeatedly.
- sleep-learning — the idea that people can learn things while they are asleep
- sleeping chair — a chair of the 17th century, having a high back, usually adjustable, with deep wings of the same height.
- sparkling wine — a wine that is naturally carbonated by a second fermentation.
- spectrological — relating to spectres or spectrology
- spiral binding — a binding, as for a notebook or booklet, in which the pages are fastened together by a spiral of wire or plastic that coils through a series of holes punched along one side of each page and the front and back covers.
- spring balance — a device in which an object to be weighed is attached to the end of a helical spring, the extension of which indicates the weight of the object on a calibrated scale
- strip planting — the growing of different crops on alternate strips of ground that usually follow the contour of the land, a recourse to minimize erosion.
- sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
- suprasegmental — above, beyond, or in addition to a segment.
- thalassography — oceanography, especially that branch dealing with smaller bodies of water, as bays, sounds, and gulfs.
- thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
- transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
- trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- walking papers — notice of dismissal
- walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- webliographies — Plural form of webliography.