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13-letter words containing p, e, i, g

  • stepparenting — parenting within a stepfamily
  • steppingstone — a stone, or one of a line of stones, in shallow water, a marshy place, or the like, that is stepped on in crossing.
  • stoppage time — In soccer and some other sports, stoppage time is the period of time that is added to the end of a game because play was stopped during the game as a result of, for example, injuries to players.
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
  • string-puller — a person who uses his or her influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
  • supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
  • superorganism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
  • superregional — involving many regions
  • supplementing — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
  • supreme being — God.
  • table-rapping — the sounds of knocking or tapping made without any apparent physical agency while a group of people sit round a table, and attributed by spiritualists to the spirit of a dead person using this as a means of communication with the living
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • temporizingly — in a yielding manner
  • the big apple — New York City
  • the high jump — an athletic event in which a competitor has to jump over a high bar set between two vertical supports
  • the jig is up — that ends it; all chances for success are gone
  • the spotlight — the focus of attention
  • the-big-apple — New York City.
  • thigh-slapper — a very funny joke, remark, story, or incident.
  • tissue typing — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
  • to go apeshit — to become crazy, enraged, or out of control
  • to keep going — If you keep going, you continue moving along or doing something that you have started, even if you are tired and would prefer to stop.
  • tone painting — musical description, by harmonic, melodic, or rhythmic means, of the words of a text or the story elements in program music.
  • tracing paper — a thin, transparent paper for making tracings.
  • tribune group — (in Britain) a group made up of left-wing Labour Members of Parliament: founded 1966
  • trigger happy — ready to fire a gun at the least provocation, regardless of the situation or probable consequences: a trigger-happy hunter.
  • trigger plant — any of several small grasslike plants of the genus Stylidium, having sensitive stamens that are erected when disturbed: family Stylidiaceae
  • trigger price — if a commodity reaches a trigger price, its price, or the conditions governing its sale are changed; a price at which certain consequences ensue
  • trigger-happy — ready to fire a gun at the least provocation, regardless of the situation or probable consequences: a trigger-happy hunter.
  • triple figure — a number made up of three digits.
  • triple-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
  • tripping line — a journey or voyage: to win a trip to Paris.
  • turning piece — a wooden pattern for an arch built without centering.
  • unappealingly — in an unappealing manner
  • uncooperating — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • under-packing — the act or work of a person or thing that packs.
  • underpainting — the first coat of paint, especially the initial painting on a canvas in which the major areas, tones, colors, and forms are indicated in mass.
  • underpinnings — a system of supports beneath a wall or the like.
  • underspending — the process or fact of spending less than one can afford or is allocated
  • unimpregnated — not saturated, soaked or infused (with something)
  • unix man page — Unix manual page
  • unplagiarized — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • unprogressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
  • unrepentingly — in an unrepenting or impenitent manner
  • unreproaching — not reproaching or blaming
  • untrespassing — not trespassing or infringing
  • uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
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