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16-letter words containing p, a, n, t, g

  • platoon sergeant — the senior noncommissioned officer in a platoon, equivalent to sergeant first class.
  • play off against — If you play people off against each other, you make them compete or argue, so that you gain some advantage.
  • pneumatic trough — a trough filled with liquid, especially water, for collecting gases in bell jars or the like by displacement.
  • point of sailing — the bearing of a sailing vessel, considered with relation to the direction of the wind.
  • pork scratchings — small pieces of crisply cooked pork crackling, eaten cold as an appetizer with drinks
  • portuguese india — a former Portuguese overseas territory on the W coast of India, consisting of the districts of Gôa, Daman, and Diu: annexed by India December 1961. Capital: Gôa.
  • potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
  • potential energy — the energy of a body or a system with respect to the position of the body or the arrangement of the particles of the system.
  • practice manager — the manager of a business such as a medical practice, dental practice, or legal practice
  • praetorian guard — the bodyguard of a military commander, especially the imperial guard stationed in Rome.
  • pre-registration — the act of registering.
  • prestidigitation — sleight of hand; legerdemain.
  • preunderstanding — to perceive the meaning of; grasp the idea of; comprehend: to understand Spanish; I didn't understand your question.
  • prevenient grace — divine grace operating on the human will prior to its turning to God.
  • private judgment — personal opinion formed independently of the expressed position of an institution, as in matters of religion or politics.
  • private language — a language that is not merely secret or accidentally limited to one user, but that cannot in principle be communicated to another
  • processing plant — a factory where raw materials are treated or prepared by a special method, esp one where food is treated in order to preserve it
  • prognostic chart — a chart showing the predicted state of the atmosphere for a given time in the future.
  • progress payment — an instalment of a larger payment made to a contractor for work carried out up to a specified stage of the job
  • project guardian — (project, security)   A project which grew out of the ARPA support for Multics and the sale of Multics systems to the US Air Force. The USAF wanted a system that could be used to handle more than one security classification of data at a time. They contracted with Honeywell and MITRE Corporation to figure out how to do this. Project Guardian led to the creation of the Access Isolation Mechanism, the forerunner of the B2 labeling and star property support in Multics. The DoD Orange Book was influenced by the experience in building secure systems gained in Project Guardian.
  • project planning — project management
  • prolonged-action — sustained-release.
  • proposal writing — Extension of Fortran for proposal writing.
  • proto-algonquian — the unattested parent language from which the Algonquian languages are descended.
  • provost sergeant — the senior noncommissioned officer of a prison or other confinement facility whose chief duty is the supervision of prisoners and of the military police unit.
  • publicity agency — an advertising agency; a firm that gets publicity for people or products
  • punitive damages — law: penalty payment
  • purchasing agent — a person who buys materials, supplies, equipment, etc., for a company.
  • put a foot wrong — to make a mistake
  • reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
  • rhinopharyngitis — inflammation of the mucous membranes of the nose and pharynx.
  • roentgenotherapy — treatment of disease by means of x-rays.
  • run a tight ship — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
  • saint petersburg — Also called Russian Empire. Russian Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Capital: St. Petersburg (1703–1917).
  • santa fe springs — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles: oil wells.
  • saratoga springs — a city in E New York: health resort; horse races.
  • scarlet eggplant — a hairy, prickly plant, Solanum integrifolium, of the nightshade family, native to Africa, grown for its furrowed, nearly round, scarlet or yellow ornamental fruit.
  • sculpture garden — a garden that showcases sculptures in landscaped surroundings
  • seating capacity — the number of people a place can seat
  • self-deprecating — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • self-replicating — reproducing itself by its own power or inherent nature: self-replicating organisms.
  • shifting spanner — an adjustable spanner
  • shorthand typing — shorthand and typing
  • singapore strait — a strait between Singapore Island and the Riau Archipelago at the S end of the Malay Peninsula: shipping channel between the South China Sea and the Malacca Strait. 65 miles (105 km) long and 10 miles (16 km) wide.
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • sleeping partner — silent partner.
  • soft pornography — soft-core pornography.
  • sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
  • sparring partner — a boxer who spars with and otherwise serves to train a boxer who is preparing for a bout.
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