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15-letter words containing p, e, o, n, a, g

  • pinochet ugarte — Augusto [ou-goos-taw] /aʊˈgus tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1915–2006, Chilean army general and political leader: president 1973–90.
  • pistachio green — a light or medium shade of yellow green.
  • plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • portative organ — capable of being carried; portable.
  • powder magazine — a compartment for the storage of ammunition and explosives.
  • prairie-dogging — (in an open-plan office) the practice of looking over the top of one's partition in order to discover the source of or reason for a commotion
  • pre-negotiation — mutual discussion and arrangement of the terms of a transaction or agreement: the negotiation of a treaty.
  • preregistration — early registration, in advance of event or general registration
  • pro-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
  • process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
  • product manager — sb who oversees product development
  • program counter — (hardware)   (PC) A register in the central processing unit that contains the addresss of the next instruction to be executed. After each instruction is fetched, the PC is automatically incremented to point to the following instruction. It is not normally manipulated like an ordinary register but instead, special instructions are provided to alter the flow of control by writing a new value to the PC, e.g. JUMP, CALL, RTS.
  • programme notes — notes designed to act as guide to an audience listening to live (esp classical) music. They will inform about the sequence of music played and may give some information about the music
  • project manager — sb who oversees project plan
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
  • pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
  • psion organiser — (computer)   A popular pocket computer from the UK Company Psion plc. The organiser uses a graphical user interface with windows, menus, icons and dialog boxes. There have been several versions so far: Series3a, Series3, HC, MC, OrgII.
  • repeating group — (database)   Any attribute that can have multiple values associated with a single instance of some entity. For example, a book might have multiple authors. Such a "-to-many" relationship might be represented in an unnormalised relational database as multiple author columns in the book table or a single author(s) column containing a string which was a list of authors. Converting this to "first normal form" is the first step in database normalisation. Each author of the book would appear in a separate row along with the book's primary key. Later nomalisation stages would move the book-author relationship into a separate table to avoid repeating other book attibutes (e.g. title, publisher) for each author.
  • roentgenography — roentgenogram.
  • roentgenoparent — visible by means of x-rays.
  • sarcoptic mange — mange caused by burrowing mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
  • sauce espagnole — brown sauce.
  • secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
  • semipornography — partial pornography; material that is almost pornographic
  • shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
  • shopping basket — a metal or plastic container with one or two handles, used to carry shopping in a shop
  • singapore sling — a cocktail of gin, cherry brandy, sugar, and water.
  • social spending — the money that is spent on welfare payments
  • spark generator — an alternating-current power source with a condenser discharging across a spark gap.
  • speaking of sth — You can say speaking of something that has just been mentioned as a way of introducing a new topic which has some connection with that thing.
  • spermatogenesis — the origin and development of spermatozoa.
  • sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
  • step on the gas — accelerate, drive faster
  • take down a peg — to lower the pride or conceit of; humble or dispirit
  • teng hsiao-ping — Deng Xiaoping.
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • thought pattern — habitual way of thinking
  • unchoreographed — not choreographed; not pre-arranged or pre-prepared; unplanned
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • upper arlington — a city in central Ohio, near Columbus.
  • weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
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