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12-letter words containing p, a, r, l, n, g

  • pearl diving — the act of diving for the precious gems pearls
  • perinatology — a field of medicine focusing on problems emerging during the perinatal period.
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • pharyngology — the science of the pharynx and its diseases.
  • philandering — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
  • pig islander — a New Zealander
  • pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
  • plagiarising — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
  • play reading — the activity when a group of people read the parts of a play
  • playing card — one of the conventional set of 52 cards in four suits, as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs, used in playing various games of chance and skill.
  • plea bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
  • plea-bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
  • pollen grain — a single granule of pollen.
  • popular song — a song that is written to have an immediate and wide appeal and is usually popular for only a short time, but that sometimes is of a sufficiently high quality to become part of the permanent repertoire of popular music and jazz. Compare standard (def 12).
  • port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • pre-language — a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
  • pre-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • pre-planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
  • prelingually — in a prelingual manner
  • premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
  • primogenital — relating to primogeniture
  • prodigal son — a figure in a parable of Jesus (Luke 15:11–32); a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him.
  • prolog-linda — 1. Prolog extended with Linda-style parallelism. Proc 4th Australian Conf on Artif Intell. 2. Neil MacDonald, U Edinburgh 1989. Another Prolog extended with Linda, implemented on a Computing Surface.
  • prolongation — the act of prolonging: the prolongation of a line.
  • promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • proteoglycan — a macromolecule composed of a polysaccharide joined to a polypeptide and forming the ground substance of connective tissue.
  • ranging pole — a pole for marking positions in surveying
  • reading lamp — A reading lamp is a small lamp that you keep on a desk or table. You can move part of it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading.
  • role playing — role-play used as a method of training or education
  • role-playing — a method of instruction or psychotherapy aimed at changing attitudes and behavior, in which participants act out designated roles relevant to real-life situations.
  • rolling plan — a plan which is designed to continue over a period of time and is subject to regular review and updating
  • selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • signal corps — a branch of the army responsible for military communications, meteorological studies, and related work.
  • single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
  • single-payer — noting or relating to a healthcare or health insurance system in which the government or a publicly owned and regulated agency pays all medical costs from a single fund.
  • sleeping car — a railroad car fitted with berths, compartments, bedrooms, or drawing rooms for passengers to sleep in.
  • sporangiolum — a small sporangium
  • spring-clean — to subject (a place) to a spring-cleaning.
  • surpassingly — of a large amount or high degree; exceeding, excelling, or extraordinary: structures of surpassing magnificence.
  • telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
  • tragelaphine — of or relating to a tragelaph
  • trying plane — a plane with a long body for planing the edges of long boards
  • unaspiringly — in an unambitious or unaspiring manner
  • underlapping — to extend partly under.
  • unprevailing — lacking force, not effective
  • valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
  • wallpapering — Present participle of wallpaper.
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