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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).
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