14-letter words containing p, e, r, g, o, l
- lexicographers — Plural form of lexicographer.
- lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
- lexington park — a town in S Maryland.
- locking pliers — pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.
- lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
- lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
- massage parlor — a commercial establishment providing massages.
- megasporophyll — a sporophyll producing megasporangia only.
- nasopharyngeal — the part of the pharynx behind and above the soft palate, directly continuous with the nasal passages. Compare oropharynx (def 2).
- neurohypnology — a name given to hypnosis by the Scottish physician Braid
- neuropathology — the pathology of the nervous system.
- nonoverlapping — Not overlapping.
- old portuguese — the language of Portugal as spoken and written from the 14th to the middle of the 16th centuries.
- opening bowler — a player who makes the first bowl in cricket
- orthopterology — the study of the Orthoptera
- overdeveloping — Present participle of overdevelop.
- overprivileged — having too many advantages or opportunities compared to others.
- paleogeography — the science of representing the earth's geographic features belonging to any part of the geologic past.
- paleontography — the formal description of fossils
- parole hearing — a panel of people who decide whether to free a prisoner before his or her sentence has expired, on the condition that he or she is of good behaviour
- periodontology — periodontics.
- phototelegraph — of or relating to phototelegraphy
- phraseological — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- pigeon-livered — meek-tempered; spiritless; mild.
- pilgrim bottle — a flat-sided water bottle having two loops at the side of a short neck for a suspending cord or chain.
- plane geometry — the geometry of figures whose parts all lie in one plane.
- pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
- plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
- polygon pusher — (Or "rectangle slinger"). A chip designer who spends most of his or her time at the physical layout level (which requires drawing *lots* of multi-coloured polygons).
- polygraph test — a test carried out using a polygraph, esp used by the police to try to find out whether somebody is telling the truth
- popular singer — a professional singer who specializes in popular songs.
- porter's lodge — a room near the entrance of a public building such as a college, which is occupied by the porter
- pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
- power struggle — fight to take control
- pre-collegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
- pre-psychology — the science of the mind or of mental states and processes.
- progestational — prepared for pregnancy, as the lining of the uterus prior to menstruation or in the early stages of gestation itself; progravid.
- propenyl group — a univalent group derived from propylene, CH 3 CH=CH−.
- prostate gland — an organ that surrounds the urethra of males at the base of the bladder, comprising a muscular portion, which controls the release of urine, and a glandular portion, which secretes an alkaline fluid that makes up part of the semen and enhances the motility and fertility of sperm.
- pterylographic — relating to pterylography
- pyriphlegethon — Phlegethon (def 1).
- pyrometallurgy — the process or technique of refining ores with heat so as to accelerate chemical reactions or to melt the metallic or nonmetallic content.
- radiotelegraph — a telegraph in which messages or signals are sent by means of radio waves rather than through wires or cables.
- reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
- reprogrammable — capable of being programmed.
- repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
- route flapping — flapping router
- rummelgumption — commonsense
- rummlegumption — common sense