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13-letter words containing p, i, e, c, n, g

  • face painting — art of decorating the face with paint
  • fingerpicking — Present participle of fingerpick.
  • flying picket — (in industrial disputes) a member of a group of pickets organized to be able to move quickly from place to place
  • footing piece — one of a series of horizontal transverse timbers supporting a platform or staging.
  • fore clipping — a word formed by omitting the first part of the form from which it is derived.
  • fowling piece — a shotgun for shooting wildfowl.
  • galvanic pile — voltaic pile.
  • gap insurance — GAP insurance pays the difference between what someone owes on their car loan and the actual cash value of the vehicle in the event that it is stolen or damaged.
  • gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
  • ge-pano-carib — a linguistic phylum comprising a large number of aboriginal languages with scattered distribution in South America east of the Andes.
  • gene splicing — recombinant DNA technology.
  • gene-splicing — recombinant DNA technology.
  • genetotrophic — pertaining to nutrition and genetics
  • genotypically — With reference to a genotype.
  • glockenspiels — Plural form of glockenspiel.
  • glycoproteins — Plural form of glycoprotein.
  • gopher client — (networking)   A program which runs on your local computer and provides a user interface to the Gopher protocol and to gopher servers. Web browsers can act as Gopher clients and simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary terminals, the X Window System, GNU Emacs, and other systems.
  • graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
  • graving piece — a piece of wood let into a wooden hull to replace decayed wood.
  • grease pencil — a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.
  • gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
  • hate campaign — A hate campaign is a series of actions which are intended to harm or upset someone, or to make other people have a low opinion of them.
  • hypermagnetic — (physics) Extremely magnetic.
  • hypothecating — Present participle of hypothecate.
  • iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
  • intercropping — Present participle of intercrop.
  • introspecting — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
  • king's speech — (in the British Parliament) a speech reviewing domestic conditions and foreign relations, prepared by the ministry in the name of the sovereign, and read at the opening of the Parliament either by the sovereign in person or by commission.
  • letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
  • locking piece — (in a striking train) a hooked part, rising and falling on a locking plate and arresting the rotation of the plate after the proper number of strokes.
  • locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
  • magnetic pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
  • magnetic tape — strip sensitive to electromagnets
  • magnetic-tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
  • magnetooptics — the branch of physics that deals with magnetooptic phenomena.
  • masking piece — a flat, curtain, or other piece of scenery for concealing a part of a stage from the audience.
  • measuring cup — a graduated cup used especially in cooking for measuring ingredients.
  • meeting place — A meeting place is a place where people meet.
  • misperceiving — Present participle of misperceive.
  • morphogenetic — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
  • nephrological — of or relating to nephrology
  • nonpathogenic — Pathology. capable of producing disease: pathogenic bacteria.
  • nonperceiving — Unperceiving.
  • ocean springs — a town in SE Mississippi.
  • oceanographic — the branch of physical geography dealing with the ocean.
  • outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
  • over-cropping — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
  • packing crate — A packing crate is a large wooden box in which things are put so that they can be stored or taken somewhere.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • paleomagnetic — Geology. magnetic polarization acquired by the minerals in a rock at the time the rock was deposited or solidified.
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