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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
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