13-letter words containing p, a, n, g
- participating — to take or have a part or share, as with others; partake; share (usually followed by in): to participate in profits; to participate in a play.
- parting strip — a strip, as of wood, used to keep two parts separated, as one in each side of the frame of a window to keep the sashes apart when lowered or raised.
- passenger car — carriage of a train
- passenger jet — a jet that carries passengers
- passing place — a wider place on a narrow road where vehicles can pass
- pastel orange — suntan (def 3).
- path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
- pathogenicity — the disease-producing capacity of a pathogen.
- pathognomonic — Medicine/Medical. characteristic or diagnostic of a specific disease: a pathognomonic sign of pneumonia.
- patronizingly — displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner: a patronizing greeting, accompanied by a gentle pat on the pack.
- patternmaking — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
- peace-keeping — the maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area: the United Nations' efforts toward peacekeeping.
- pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
- pease pudding — a pudding of strained split peas mixed with egg.
- pebble garden — a small ornamental garden mainly composed of an arrangement of pebbles
- pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
- peptidoglycan — a polymer, consisting of polysaccharide and peptide chains, responsible for the structure of the cell wall of bacteria
- peregrination — travel from one place to another, especially on foot.
- peregrinatory — tending to peregrinate; relating to or characteristic of a traveller
- perigean tide — an ocean tide that occurs in the spring, when the moon is at its perigee.
- persona grata — an acceptable person, especially a diplomatic representative acceptable to the government to which he or she is accredited.
- pertaining to — having to do with
- pham van dong — 1906–2000, Vietnamese political leader: prime minister of North Vietnam 1955–76 and of unified Vietnam 1976–86.
- phantasmagory — phantasmagoria.
- pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
- pharyngealize — to pronounce with pharyngeal coarticulation.
- pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
- pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
- pharyngoscopy — an examination by means of a pharyngoscope.
- phonautograph — a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
- phone hacking — an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
- phone-tapping — Phone-tapping is the activity of listening secretly to someone's phone conversations using special electronic equipment. In most cases phone-tapping is illegal.
- phong shading — (graphics) A model of how light is reflected from surfaces used extensively in three dimensional graphics to generate visually realistic images.
- photo-sharing — the publishing of digital photographs on the internet
- photo-stating — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
- photogelatine — relating to photographic processes in which gelatine is used in receiving or transferring prints
- photographing — a picture produced by photography.
- photonegative — pertaining to a substance, as selenium, having a conductivity that decreases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
- phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
- phytopathogen — an organism that causes disease in plants
- pidginization — to develop (a language) into a pidgin.
- piezomagnetic — involving or relating to the production of a magnetic field by applying a mechanical stress to certain crystals
- pig in a poke — something not adequately appraised or of undetermined value, as an offering or purchase.
- pigeon breast — chicken breast.
- pigheadedness — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
- pigouvian tax — a tax levied to counter an economic negative externality, for example taxing producers of industrial pollution in order to encourage pollution control
- pilsner-glass — a pale, light lager beer.
- pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
- piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
- place setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.