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12-letter words containing p, e, a, g

  • glacier peak — a volcanic mountain in NW central Washington, in the Cascade range. 10,541 feet (3213 meters).
  • glacis plate — the frontal plate armour on a tank
  • gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
  • gopher snake — a bullsnake, Pituophis melanoleucus, of western North America, that invades burrows to prey on rodents.
  • gopher state — Minnesota (used as a nickname).
  • grace hopper — (person)   US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Hopper (1906-12-09 to 1992-01-01), née Grace Brewster Murray. Hopper is believed to have concieved the concept of the compiler with the A-0 in 1952. She also developed the first commercial high-level language, which eventually evolved into COBOL. She worked on the Mark I computer with Howard Aiken and with BINAC in 1949. She is credited with having coined the term "debug", and the adage "it is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" (with various wordings), which has been the guiding principle in sysadmin decisions ever since. See also the entries debug and bug. Hopper is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1994, the US Navy named a new ship, the guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper, after her.
  • grace period — a period of time after a payment becomes due, as of a loan or life-insurance premium, before one is subject to penalties or late charges or before the loan or policy is canceled.
  • graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
  • grandnephews — Plural form of grandnephew.
  • grandparents — a parent of a parent.
  • granite peak — the highest elevation in Montana, in the S part. 12,799 feet (3901 meters).
  • grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
  • grape picker — someone who picks grapes
  • graph theory — the branch of mathematics dealing with linear graphs.
  • grapple shot — a grapnellike projectile fired from a gun and used as a hold for the end of a line in rescue operations or in kedging.
  • graspingness — The quality of being grasping.
  • grass sponge — a large, dark brown, commercial sponge, Spongia graminea, of Florida, the West Indies, and the Gulf of Mexico.
  • grasshoppers — Plural form of grasshopper.
  • gray panther — a member of an organized group of elderly people seeking to secure or protect their rights by collective action.
  • gray snapper — a snapper, Lutjanus griseus, of shallow waters off the coast of Florida, having a grayish-green body with a brown spot on each scale.
  • grease paint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
  • greasy spoon — a cheap and rather unsanitary restaurant.
  • great plague — the bubonic plague that occurred in London in 1665 and killed about 15 percent of the city's population.
  • great plains — a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.
  • great primer — an 18-point type of a size larger than Columbian, formerly used for Bibles.
  • great spirit — the chief deity in the religion of many North American Indian tribes.
  • great-nephew — a son of one's nephew or niece; grandnephew.
  • grey panther — a member of the generation of affluent older consumers, who regard themselves as young, active, and sociable
  • grimsel pass — an Alpine pass in S Switzerland. 7159 feet (2184 meters) high.
  • ground plane — (in perspective drawing) the theoretical horizontal plane receding from the picture plane to the horizon, beginning at the level of the base line.
  • ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
  • gutta-percha — the milky juice, nearly white when pure, of various Malaysian trees of the sapodilla family, especially Palaquium gutta.
  • h paul grice — H(erbert) Paul, 1913–88, English philosopher.
  • hagiographer — one of the writers of the Hagiographa.
  • halogen lamp — a gas-filled, high-intensity incandescent lamp having a tungsten filament and containing a small amount of a halogen, such as iodine, that vaporizes on heating and redeposits any evaporated tungsten particles back onto the filament: used especially in motion-picture projectors and automobile headlights.
  • hanging step — a step projecting from a wall with no real or apparent support at its outer end.
  • helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
  • heliographed — Simple past tense and past participle of heliograph.
  • heliographer — (obsolete) Photographer.
  • heliographic — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
  • helping hand — aid; assistance: to give the destitute a helping hand.
  • hepaticology — the scientific study of bryophyte plants known as hepatics or liverworts
  • hepatogenous — originating in the liver
  • hepatomegaly — an abnormal enlargement of the liver, usually associated with liver disease or heart failure.
  • heterography — spelling different from that in current use.
  • hiding place — location where sb is concealed
  • hierographer — a writer of hierographs
  • hierographic — of or relating to hierographs
  • higher apsis — See under apsis.
  • hopper barge — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.
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