13-letter words containing p, i, r, o, g
- come to grips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
- comprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
- computerising — Present participle of computerise.
- computerizing — Present participle of computerize.
- contracepting — to prevent the conception of (offspring).
- copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
- coral springs — city in SE Fla.: pop. 118,000
- coronagraphic — Of, pertaining to, or employing a coronagraph.
- corresponding — parallel; equivalent
- counterspying — the activities of a counterspy
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- crop spraying — the spraying of crops with insecticide, fungicide, etc
- cross-posting — the sending of an email to many forums, mailing lists, etc
- cryptographic — Relating to cryptography.
- cryptological — cryptography.
- cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
- decompressing — Present participle of decompress.
- deep mourning — completely black mourning clothes made of a drab material: After her brother died, she was in deep mourning for a year.
- demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- depressogenic — Causing or tending to cause depression.
- dermographism — dermatographia.
- diageotropism — a diatropic response of plant parts, such as rhizomes, to the stimulus of gravity
- discographies — Plural form of discography.
- disempowering — Present participle of disempower.
- drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
- drownproofing — a survival technique, for swimmers or nonswimmers, in which the body is allowed to float vertically in the water, with the head submerged, the lungs filled with air, and the arms and legs relaxed, the head being raised to breathe every ten seconds or so.
- earning power — business: ability to profit
- eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- electrotyping — The act or process of making electrotypes.
- epping forest — a forest in E England, northeast of London: formerly a royal hunting ground
- ergatomorphic — pertaining to an ergatomorph
- ethnographica — a collection of ethnographic items
- ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
- eusporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a group of cells, rather than a single cell, and with no specialized dispersal of spores
- expectorating — Present participle of expectorate.
- expropriating — Present participle of expropriate.
- extemporising — Present participle of extemporise.
- extemporizing — Present participle of extemporize.
- extrapolating — Present participle of extrapolate.
- fighter pilot — sb who pilots a bomber plane
- filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
- flameproofing — Present participle of flameproof.
- fluorographic — of or pertaining to fluorography
- fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
- folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
- fore clipping — a word formed by omitting the first part of the form from which it is derived.
- freight depot — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
- gastrohepatic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and the liver.
- gastroparesis — (pathology) A condition, often a complication of diabetes, characterised by a delayed emptying of the stomach.
- gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.