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

  • specialist registrar — a hospital doctor senior to a house officer but junior to a consultant, specializing in medicine (medical specialist registrar), surgery (surgical specialist registrar), or some subspeciality of either
  • st.-germain-des-pres — an area in Paris, on the Left Bank.
  • star spangled banner — Stars and Stripes.
  • star-spangled banner — Stars and Stripes.
  • state highway patrol — a state's road traffic police
  • supplemental plumage — the third plumage assumed by certain birds having three different plumages in their annual cycle of molts.
  • supplementary angles — either of two angles that added together produce an angle of 180°.
  • take up the gauntlet — to accept a challenge
  • television programme — a programme broadcast on television
  • temperature gradient — rate of change of temperature with distance.
  • the (great) pyramids — the three large pyramids at Gîza, Egypt: the largest is the Pyramid of Khufu
  • the hearing impaired — people whose hearing is partially defective
  • the legal profession — the profession of law
  • to bring up the rear — If a person or vehicle is bringing up the rear, they are the last person or vehicle in a moving line of them.
  • to spread your wings — If you spread your wings, you do something new and rather difficult or move to a new place, because you feel more confident in your abilities than you used to and you want to gain wider experience.
  • toxemia of pregnancy — an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, edema, and the presence of protein in the urine.
  • transposed conjugate — adjoint (def 2).
  • tubing head pressure — The tubing head pressure is the pressure on the tubing, which is measured at the wellhead.
  • video graphics array — (hardware)   (VGA) A display standard for IBM PCs, with 640 x 480 pixels in 16 colours and a 4:3 aspect ratio. There is also a text mode with 720 x 400 pixels. IBM technical references define the *product name* of their original VGA display board as "Video Graphics Array", in contrast to the preceding boards, the "Color Graphics Adapter" (CGA) and "Enhanced Graphics Adapter" (EGA). See also Super Video Graphics Adapter.
  • winter olympic games — an international contest of winter sports, esp skiing, held every four years
  • working relationship — a relationship with a colleague, boss or employee
  • yellow-billed magpie — either of two corvine birds, Pica pica (black-billed magpie) of Eurasia and North America, or P. nuttalli (yellow-billed magpie) of California, having long, graduated tails, black-and-white plumage, and noisy, mischievous habits.
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