10-letter words containing p, l, a, g
- polyphagia — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
- polyphagic — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
- potamogale — otter shrew.
- potamology — the study of rivers.
- praisingly — in a praising manner; with praise
- prankingly — showily, in an ostentatious or pranking manner
- praxeology — the study of human conduct.
- pregenital — of, relating to, or noting reproduction.
- preglacial — prior to a given glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene.
- preleasing — to sign or grant a lease on (a building, apartment, etc.) in advance of construction: Agents have preleased more than 60 percent of the new building.
- prelingual — of or relating to the tongue or some tonguelike part.
- prelogical — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- prevailing — predominant: prevailing winds.
- prize flag — a flag hoisted by a yacht upon learning that it has won a prize in a race.
- proctalgia — neural pain in the rectum or anus
- prodigally — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- prolongate — to prolong.
- promulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- propagable — capable of being propagated.
- push along — to go away
- pyrogallol — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous, solid, phenolic compound, C 6 H 3 (OH) 3 , obtained by heating gallic acid and water: used chiefly as a developer in photography, as a mordant for wool, in dyeing, and in medicine in the treatment of certain skin conditions.
- range pole — a conspicuously painted pole held upright to show the position of a survey mark.
- rappelling — (in mountaineering) the act or method of moving down a steep incline or past an overhang by means of a double rope secured above and placed around the body, usually under the left thigh and over the right shoulder, and paid out gradually in the descent.
- replanning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- replanting — to plant again.
- salpingian — a trumpet-shaped tube, as a Fallopian or Eustachian tube.
- scalloping — any of the bivalve mollusks of the genus Argopecten (Pecten) and related genera that swim by rapidly clapping the fluted shell valves together.
- slip a cog — (not in technical use) a gear tooth, formerly especially one of hardwood or metal, fitted into a slot in a gearwheel of less durable material.
- slip gauge — a very accurately ground block of hardened steel used to measure a gap with close accuracy: used mainly in tool-making and inspection
- snappingly — involving a snap
- spankingly — in a spanking manner
- spark plug — a device designed to fit in each cylinder of a gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and to produce the electric spark for igniting the mixture of gasoline and air.
- speakingly — in an eloquent manner
- spindleage — total number or capacity of spindles in a mill, area, etc.
- spiralling — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- split page — (in a newspaper) a page replacing one of an earlier edition and containing chiefly the same material in altered form.
- spongeable — able to be cleaned with a sponge
- springdale — a city in NW Arkansas.
- springhalt — stringhalt.
- springtail — any of numerous minute, wingless primitive insects of the order Collembola, most possessing a special abdominal appendage for jumping that allows for the nearly perpetual springing pattern characteristic of the group.
- spun glass — blown glass in which fine threads of glass form the surface texture.
- staple gun — a machine for fastening together sheets of paper or the like, with wire staples.
- stylograph — a fountain pen in which the writing point is a fine, hollow tube instead of a nib.
- sugar lump — cube of sugar for coffee or tea
- sugar palm — gomuti (def 1).
- sugar-plum — a small sweetmeat made of sugar with various flavoring and coloring ingredients; a bonbon.
- superlarge — extremely large
- surplusage — something that is surplus; an excess amount.