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12-letter words containing p, h, a, g, e

  • space flight — journey into outer space
  • spearfishing — any of several fishes of the genus Tetrapturus, resembling the sailfish but having the first dorsal fin much less developed: inhabiting all seas, but rare.
  • spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
  • spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • speech organ — any part of the body, as the tongue, velum, diaphragm, or lungs, that participates, actively or passively, voluntarily or involuntarily, in the production of the sounds of speech.
  • sphenography — the art of writing in cuneiform characters.
  • sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
  • sprechgesang — a vocal style intermediate between speech and singing but without exact pitch intonation.
  • steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
  • stenographer — a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
  • stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
  • stereography — the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane.
  • supercharged — equipped with a supercharger.
  • supercharger — a mechanism for forcing air into an internal-combustion engine in order to increase engine power.
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • superhighway — a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway. Compare expressway.
  • technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
  • telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
  • telegraphese — a style of writing or speaking distinguished by the omissions, abbreviations, and combinations that are characteristic of telegrams, as in “ expect arrive six evening. ”.
  • telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
  • the pentagon — a five-sided building in Arlington, Va., in which the main offices of the U.S. Department of Defense are located; hence, the U.S. military establishment
  • thermography — a technique for imitating an embossed appearance, as on business cards, stationery, or the like, by dusting printed areas with a powder that adheres only to the wet ink, and fusing the ink and powder to the paper by heat.
  • tragelaphine — of or relating to a tragelaph
  • videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
  • webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
  • wedge-shaped — shaped like a wedge
  • white plague — tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
  • wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler
  • zoogeography — the science dealing with the geographical distribution of animals.
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