16-letter words containing p, i, s, g
- philosopher-king — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
- phosphor fatigue — screen saver
- phototypesetting — Printing. photocomposition.
- physiognomically — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
- pigs in blankets — small frankfurters wrapped in dough and baked, served as an appetizer
- pitching pennies — a gambling game in which pennies are tossed to a mark or against a wall, the winner being the person whose penny lands closest to the mark or wall.
- play off against — If you play people off against each other, you make them compete or argue, so that you gain some advantage.
- pleasure-seeking — always looking for pleasure
- point of sailing — the bearing of a sailing vessel, considered with relation to the direction of the wind.
- pork scratchings — small pieces of crisply cooked pork crackling, eaten cold as an appetizer with drinks
- portuguese india — a former Portuguese overseas territory on the W coast of India, consisting of the districts of Gôa, Daman, and Diu: annexed by India December 1961. Capital: Gôa.
- portuguese timor — former (1914-75) Portuguese territory in the Malay Archipelago
- posigrade rocket — an auxiliary rocket used to separate the sections of a multistage rocket, fired in the direction of flight.
- positive vetting — the checking of a person's background, political affiliation, etc, to assess his suitability for a position that may involve national security
- postremogeniture — a system of inheritance under which the estate of a deceased person goes to his youngest son. Also called ultimogeniture. Compare primogeniture (def 2).
- pre-registration — the act of registering.
- preserved ginger — fresh ginger preserved in syrup and used in cooking, esp desserts
- pressure flaking — a method of manufacturing a flint tool by pressing flakes from a stone core with a pointed implement, usually of wood tipped with antler or copper.
- pressure welding — the welding together of two objects by holding them together under pressure.
- prestidigitation — sleight of hand; legerdemain.
- prestige pricing — the practice of giving a product a high price to convey the idea that it must be of high quality or status
- preunderstanding — to perceive the meaning of; grasp the idea of; comprehend: to understand Spanish; I didn't understand your question.
- process printing — a method of printing almost any color by using a limited number of separate color plates, as yellow, magenta, cyan, and black, in combination.
- processing plant — a factory where raw materials are treated or prepared by a special method, esp one where food is treated in order to preserve it
- prognostic chart — a chart showing the predicted state of the atmosphere for a given time in the future.
- progressive jazz — an experimental, nonmelodic, and often free-flowing style of modern jazz, especially in the form of highly dissonant, rhythmically complex orchestral arrangements. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, hard bop, modern jazz.
- progressive jpeg — (graphics, file format) (PJPEG) An implementation of JPEG that supports progressive coding.
- progressive lens — a multifocal eyeglass lens that provides a continuous range of focal power between near and far distances.
- proposal writing — Extension of Fortran for proposal writing.
- prospect heights — a town in N Illinois.
- prosthetic group — the nonprotein acid constituent of a conjugate protein, as the heme group of hemoglobin.
- pseudo-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- psychobiological — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- psychogeriatrics — the psychology of old age.
- psychoimmunology — the branch of medicine studying the effects of psychological phenomena on the immune system; the intersection of psychology and immunology.
- psychophysiology — the branch of physiology that deals with the interrelation of mental and physical phenomena.
- publishing house — a company that publishes books, pamphlets, engravings, or the like: a venerable publishing house in Boston.
- pull the strings — be in control
- punitive damages — law: penalty payment
- purchasing agent — a person who buys materials, supplies, equipment, etc., for a company.
- purchasing power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
- regius professor — Crown-appointed holder of a university chair
- reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
- restoring spring — a spring so located that it returns a displaced part to its normal position.
- rhinopharyngitis — inflammation of the mucous membranes of the nose and pharynx.
- rising diphthong — a diphthong in which the first of two apparent vocalic elements is of lesser stress or sonority than the second, as the (wä) in guava [gwah-vuh] /ˈgwɑ və/ (Show IPA).
- run a tight ship — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- saint petersburg — Also called Russian Empire. Russian Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Capital: St. Petersburg (1703–1917).
- santa fe springs — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles: oil wells.
- saratoga springs — a city in E New York: health resort; horse races.