12-letter words containing p, i, l, g, a
- slip casting — a pottery-making process in which partially liquefied clay is poured into a plaster mold.
- small magpie — an unrelated micro, Eurrhypara hortulata
- smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
- space flight — journey into outer space
- span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- specialising — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
- spongillafly — spongefly.
- spongioblast — one of the primordial cells in the embryonic brain and spinal cord capable of developing into neuroglia.
- sporangiolum — a small sporangium
- spring-clean — to subject (a place) to a spring-cleaning.
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- superglacial — on the surface of a glacier.
- surpassingly — of a large amount or high degree; exceeding, excelling, or extraordinary: structures of surpassing magnificence.
- swine plague — hemorrhagic septicemia of hogs, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella suiseptica, characterized by an accompanying infection of pneumonia.
- talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
- tragelaphine — of or relating to a tragelaph
- trying plane — a plane with a long body for planing the edges of long boards
- unapologetic — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
- unaspiringly — in an unambitious or unaspiring manner
- underlapping — to extend partly under.
- unimpugnable — not capable of being challenged or criticized
- unpleasingly — in an unpleasing manner
- unprevailing — lacking force, not effective
- valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- walking pace — the speed at which someone walks
- wallpapering — Present participle of wallpaper.
- 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.
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- whaling ship — a ship engaged in whaling
- white plague — tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
- wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler
- zinc-plating — the process of covering something with a layer or coating of zinc