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13-letter words containing p, i, e, r, o, g

  • kinematograph — cinematograph.
  • leap-frogging — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
  • lexicographer — a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary.
  • lexicographic — Like a dictionary, relating to lexicography (the writing of a dictionary).
  • linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
  • megasporangia — a sporangium containing megaspores.
  • mimeographing — Present participle of mimeograph.
  • mongol empire — an empire founded in the 12th century by Genghis Khan, which reached its greatest territorial extent in the 13th century, encompassing the larger part of Asia and extending westward to the Dnieper River in eastern Europe.
  • morning paper — a paper published the night before for distribution in the morning (as opposed to an evening paper)
  • morphogenesis — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
  • morphogenetic — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
  • mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
  • mythographies — Plural form of mythography.
  • name-dropping — the introduction into one's conversation, letters, etc., of the names of famous or important people as alleged friends or associates in order to impress others.
  • nephrological — of or relating to nephrology
  • nonperceiving — Unperceiving.
  • nonperforming — not performing well or properly.
  • ocean springs — a town in SE Mississippi.
  • oceanographic — the branch of physical geography dealing with the ocean.
  • open learning — a system of further education on a flexible part-time basis
  • open marriage — a marriage in which the partners agree that each is free to have sexual relationships with other partners.
  • open registry — ship registration under a national flag available to all ships regardless of nationality.
  • opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
  • orthographies — Plural form of orthography.
  • orthographize — to spell correctly or according to the rules of orthography.
  • outperforming — Present participle of outperform.
  • 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.
  • over-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
  • overreporting — an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.: a report on the peace conference; a medical report on the patient.
  • pacific grove — a city in W California, at S end of Monterey Bay.
  • pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
  • pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
  • peregrination — travel from one place to another, especially on foot.
  • peregrinatory — tending to peregrinate; relating to or characteristic of a traveller
  • pertaining to — having to do with
  • petrol engine — an internal-combustion engine that uses petrol as fuel
  • phlebographic — relating to phlebography or the X-ray imaging of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
  • photoallergic — photosensitive.
  • phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • pickerel frog — a meadow frog, Rana palustris, common in eastern North America, similar to the leopard frog but with squarish dark spots on the back.
  • pigeon breast — chicken breast.
  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • pony trekking — the act of riding ponies cross-country, esp as a pastime
  • port engineer — a person who is responsible for the maintenance and repair of the machinery of the vessels of a shipping line and for the supervision of its engineering personnel.
  • post-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
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