14-letter words containing p, e, a, g
- cape girardeau — a city in SE Missouri, on the Mississippi River.
- cape guardafui — a cape at the NE tip of Somalia, extending into the Indian Ocean
- cape trafalgar — a cape on the SW coast of Spain, south of Cádiz: scene of the decisive naval battle (1805) in which the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the British under Nelson, who was mortally wounded
- capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
- carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
- carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
- carriage piece — carriage (def 7).
- carrier pigeon — any homing pigeon, esp one used for carrying messages
- carrying place — portage (def 3).
- cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
- cathodographer — a person trained in taking cathodographs
- champagne cork — a cork used in a champagne bottle
- change of pace — variation in tempo or mood, in the presentation of acts in a variety show, etc.
- charge-a-plate — charge plate.
- choreographers — Plural form of choreographer.
- choreographies — Plural form of choreography.
- choreographing — Present participle of choreograph.
- cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
- cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
- cinemicrograph — a motion picture filmed through a microscope.
- cisalpine gaul — (in the ancient world) that part of Gaul between the Alps and the Apennines
- clapper bridge — a primitive type of bridge in which planks or slabs of stone rest on piles of stones
- clapperclawing — Present participle of clapperclaw.
- clouded magpie — a geometrid moth, Abraxas sylvata, that is paler than the magpie moth
- coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
- complete graph — A graph which has a link between every pair of nodes. A complete bipartite graph can be partitioned into two subsets of nodes such that each node is joined to every node in the other subset.
- cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
- counterprogram — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
- cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
- cryptographers — Plural form of cryptographer.
- cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
- cytopathogenic — causing cytopathy
- dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
- daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
- decapacitating — Present participle of decapacitate.
- decompensating — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- departure gate — (in a large airport) any of the numbered exits leading to the airfield or aircraft
- depigmentation — the state of lacking or the process of losing pigmentation, usually of the skin
- depreciatingly — So as to disparage or belittle.
- dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
- dermatographia — a common medical condition in which lightly rubbing the skin produces red, often raised, temporary marks
- dermatographic — relating to dermatography
- design pattern — (programming) A description of an object-oriented design technique which names, abstracts and identifies aspects of a design structure that are useful for creating an object-oriented design. The design pattern identifies classes and instances, their roles, collaborations and responsibilities. Each design pattern focuses on a particular object-oriented design problem or issue. It describes when it applies, whether it can be applied in the presence of other design constraints, and the consequences and trade-offs of its use.
- dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
- directed graph — (digraph) A graph with one-way edges. See also directed acyclic graph.
- discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
- double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
- drag parachute — drogue parachute (def 2).