12-letter words containing p, e, g, l, r
- sloop-rigged — (of a sailboat) fore-and-aft rigged with a mainsail and a jib.
- spencer gulf — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in S Australia, between the Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas. Length: about 320 km (200 miles). Greatest width: about 145 km (90 miles)
- sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
- spread eagle — the representation of an eagle with outstretched wings, used as an emblem of the US
- spread-eagle — having or suggesting the form of a spread eagle.
- spreadeagled — Someone who is spreadeagled is lying with their arms and legs spread out.
- spring-clean — to subject (a place) to a spring-cleaning.
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- supercooling — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
- superglacial — on the surface of a glacier.
- telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
- telegraphese — a style of writing or speaking distinguished by the omissions, abbreviations, and combinations that are characteristic of telegrams, as in “ expect arrive six evening. ”.
- telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
- tragelaphine — of or relating to a tragelaph
- triple bogey — a score of three strokes over par on a hole.
- triple fugue — a fugue with a subject and two countersubjects developed simultaneously.
- triple-digit — being in the hundreds or in a figure or amount from 100 through 999: triple-digit budget figures.
- trying plane — a plane with a long body for planing the edges of long boards
- underlapping — to extend partly under.
- unprevailing — lacking force, not effective
- unprivileged — belonging to a class that enjoys special privileges; favored: the privileged few.
- unrepiningly — in an unrepining manner
- 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.
- webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
- whimperingly — In a whimpering way.
- whisperingly — In a whispering manner; quietly.
- wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler