12-letter words containing p, i, g, o, u
- pipe routing — Pipe routing is the planning of pipeline layout, which includes considerations of neatness, economy, and safety.
- ploughwright — a person who makes ploughs
- plumbaginous — containing graphite.
- popping plug — a fishing lure that makes a popping sound when pulled along the surface of the water
- port running — an evasive action at a port of entry in which a person drives through a vehicle-stopping point.
- posing pouch — a thong that emphasizes the genitals
- postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- poughkeepsie — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- pronouncings — utterances, esp of an official or judgmental nature
- propugnation — defence
- prostituting — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- pruning hook — an implement with a hooked blade, used for pruning vines, branches, etc.
- public goods — services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public
- puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pulling boat — a boat propelled by oars alone.
- push polling — the use of loaded questions in a supposedly objective telephone opinion poll during a political campaign in order to bias voters against an opposing candidate
- pussyfooting — behaving in an excessively cautious way
- pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
- quiz program — a radio or television program in which contestants compete, often for prizes, by answering questions.
- retail group — a group of companies under single ownership, which sell goods to individual customers
- rhizophagous — feeding on roots.
- rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
- sago pudding — a sweet pudding made with sago and milk
- scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
- show jumping — sport: horseriding event
- simple group — a group that has no normal subgroup except the group itself and the identity.
- slip through — be undetected
- slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
- snow pudding — a pudding, prepared by folding egg whites into a lemon gelatin mixture.
- spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
- spermogonium — one of the cup-shaped or flask-shaped receptacles in which the spermatia of certain fungi and red algae are produced.
- spoil ground — an area within a body of water, especially in the sea, where dredged material is deposited.
- spongicolous — relating to the skeleton of some marine animals
- sporangiolum — a small sporangium
- sporting gun — a gun intended for hunting
- spun-bonding — a process for forming nonwoven fabrics, usually of limited durability, by bonding continuous-filament synthetic fibers immediately after extrusion.
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- supercooling — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
- superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
- superorganic — of or relating to the structure of cultural elements within society conceived as independent of and superior to the individual members of society.
- supportingly — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- tanjungpriok — a port in Indonesia, on the NW coast of Java adjoining the capital, Jakarta: a major shipping and distributing centre for the whole archipelago
- touch-typing — the act of typing without having to look at the keys of the typewriter or computer keyboard
- two-pin plug — a plug that has two pins for inserting into a socket