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11-letter words containing p, a, r, g, n, t

  • page-turner — a book so exciting or gripping that one is compelled to read it very rapidly.
  • parachuting — descent using parachute
  • paragenetic — the origin of minerals or mineral deposits in contact so as to affect one another's formation.
  • parapenting — a cross between hang-gliding and parachuting, a sport in which the participant jumps from a high place wearing a modified type of parachute, which is then used as a hang-glider
  • parking lot — an area, usually divided into individual spaces, intended for parking motor vehicles.
  • patronising — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
  • patronizing — displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner: a patronizing greeting, accompanied by a gentle pat on the pack.
  • patter song — a comic song depending for its humorous effect on rapid enunciation of the words, occurring most commonly in comic opera and operetta.
  • paumgartner — Bernhard [bern-hahrt] /ˈbɛrn hɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1887–1971, Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist.
  • penetrating — able or tending to penetrate; piercing; sharp: a penetrating shriek; a penetrating glance.
  • pentangular — having five angles and five sides; pentagonal.
  • peregrinate — to travel or journey, especially to walk on foot.
  • pharyngitic — relating to the medical condition of pharyngitis that is characterized by pain and swelling of the pharynx
  • pharyngitis — inflammation of the mucous membrane of the pharynx; sore throat.
  • pignoration — the act or process of pledging or pawning
  • planet gear — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
  • plantigrade — walking on the whole sole of the foot, as humans, and bears.
  • platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
  • playwriting — the art or technique of writing theatrical plays; the work or profession of a playwright.
  • point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
  • poll rating — a measurement of a politician's popularity among the electorate, obtained by canvassing a representative sample of people
  • pomegranate — a chambered, many-seeded, globose fruit, having a tough, usually red rind and surmounted by a crown of calyx lobes, the edible portion consisting of pleasantly acid flesh developed from the outer seed coat.
  • port orange — a city in E Florida.
  • pregenerate — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
  • prendergast — Maurice Brazil [braz-uh l] /ˈbræz əl/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, U.S. painter.
  • presagement — an omen
  • press agent — a person employed to promote the interests of an individual, organization, etc., by obtaining favorable publicity through advertisements, mentions in columns, and the like.
  • pretraining — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
  • printmaking — the art or technique of making prints, especially as practiced in engraving, etching, drypoint, woodcut or serigraphy.
  • prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • prolongated — to prolong.
  • propagation — the act of propagating.
  • prorogation — to discontinue a session of (the British Parliament or a similar body).
  • prostrating — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
  • protagonism — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
  • protagonist — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
  • purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
  • pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
  • recarpeting — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
  • repugnantly — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
  • spartanburg — a city in NW South Carolina.
  • spring rate — The spring rate is a measurement of the amount of force needed to compress a spring a particular distance.
  • springwater — water from a spring
  • stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stevengraph — a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
  • strap hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • strap-hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • straphanger — a passenger who stands in a crowded bus or subway train and holds onto a strap or other support suspended from above.
  • suppurating — to produce or discharge pus, as a wound; maturate.
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