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13-letter words containing p, e, l, a, g

  • raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • regular graph — (mathematics)   A graph in which all nodes have the same degree.
  • regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
  • resting place — grave
  • rolling paper — cigarette paper available in small packages to smokers for rolling their own cigarettes.
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • self-pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
  • shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
  • shell program — A shell program is a basic computer program that provides a framework within which the user can develop the program to suit their own needs.
  • shipping lane — sea lane.
  • single parent — mother or father without a partner
  • single-parent — of or noting a family in which a parent brings up a child or children alone, without a partner: a single-parent family; a single-parent household.
  • sleeping area — an area in a room or house where people can sleep
  • slip carriage — a railway car detached from a moving train as it passes through a station.
  • slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • social gospel — a movement in America, chiefly in the early part of the 20th century, stressing the social teachings of Jesus and their applicability to public life.
  • space biology — exobiology.
  • spaghettilike — resembling spaghetti
  • special agent — an investigator in a law enforcement agency.
  • speed dialing — to dial (a telephone number) using speed dial.
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • spring a leak — to develop a leak
  • spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
  • spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • spurge laurel — a European thymelaeaceous evergreen shrub, Daphne laureola, with glossy leaves and small green flowers
  • star-spangled — spangled with stars.
  • string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • superdelegate — a party leader or elected public official chosen as an uncommitted delegate to a national political convention.
  • supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
  • superregional — involving many regions
  • 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
  • tangent plane — tangent (def 4).
  • telephone tag — repeated unsuccessful attempts by two persons to connect with one another by telephone.
  • temple orange — a hybrid fruit, Citrus nobilis, that is a cross between the sweet orange and the tangerine.
  • the big apple — New York City
  • the paleogene — the Paleogene subdivision of the Tertiary Period or its rocks
  • the-big-apple — New York City.
  • thigh-slapper — a very funny joke, remark, story, or incident.
  • trigger plant — any of several small grasslike plants of the genus Stylidium, having sensitive stamens that are erected when disturbed: family Stylidiaceae
  • tropocollagen — the molecular unit which forms collagen, consisting of three polypeptide chains
  • tungsten lamp — an incandescent electric lamp in which the filament is made of tungsten.
  • unappealingly — in an unappealing manner
  • unplagiarized — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • valet parking — a service offered by a hotel, restaurant, etc., by which patrons' cars are parked by an attendant.
  • weeping myall — any of several Australian acacias, especially Acacia pendula (weeping myall) having gray foliage and drooping branches.
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