11-letter words containing p, e, l, a, r, g
- logotherapy — (psychotherapy) A therapy that involves finding the meaning of one's life.
- magpie lark — a black-and-white pied bird, Grallina cyanoleuca, inhabiting areas near water in Australia and southern New Guinea.
- maple grove — a town in SE Minnesota.
- maple sugar — a yellowish-brown sugar produced by boiling down maple syrup.
- myelography — the production of myelograms.
- orange peel — outer skin of an orange
- overlapping — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- paleography — ancient forms of writing, as in documents and inscriptions.
- palsgravine — the wife or widow of a palsgrave.
- panegyrical — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
- paralleling — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
- parcel-gilt — the gilding of only some areas or ornaments of a piece of furniture.
- parlor game — any game usually played indoors, especially in the living room or parlor, as a word game or a quiz, requiring little or no physical activity.
- pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
- pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).
- pentangular — having five angles and five sides; pentagonal.
- periglacial — occurring or operating adjacent to the margin of a glacier.
- phlebograph — an instrument for recording the venous pulse.
- phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- pilgrimager — a pilgrim
- plagiarised — to take and use by plagiarism.
- plagiarizer — to take and use by plagiarism.
- planet gear — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
- plantigrade — walking on the whole sole of the foot, as humans, and bears.
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- polar angle — Usually, polar coordinates. one of two coordinates used to locate a point in a plane by the length of its radius vector and the angle this vector makes with the polar axis (polar angle)
- polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
- powder flag — red flag (def 4).
- prayer flag — a flag stamped with printed prayers, used by Himalayan Buddhists, who believe that its fluttering sends out the prayers inscribed on it.
- pre-algebra — the branch of mathematics that deals with general statements of relations, utilizing letters and other symbols to represent specific sets of numbers, values, vectors, etc., in the description of such relations.
- preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
- preen gland — uropygial gland.
- preterlegal — being beyond the scope or limits of law.
- primigenial — relating to an early stage of existence; primitive
- prodigalize — to spend lavishly
- programable — capable of being programmed.
- prolegomena — a preliminary discussion; introductory essay, as prefatory matter in a book; a prologue.
- prolongable — able to be lengthened
- prolongated — to prolong.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- purple sage — a plant, Salvia leucophylla, of the mint family, native to California, having silvery leaves and purple spikes of flowers.
- pyelography — the science or technique of making photographs of the kidneys, renal pelves, and ureters by means of x-rays, after the injection of an opaque solution or of a radiopaque dye.
- pyrogallate — a salt or ether of pyrogallol.
- repaglinide — an oral drug used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, often in combination with metformin.
- repugnantly — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- ripplegrass — English plantain.
- saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
- septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
- spiral gear — a type of helical gear used for transmitting power between shafts that are at an angle to each other.
- spreadingly — in a spreading manner