11-letter words containing p, l, a, g
- impregnably — In an impregnable manner; in a manner to defy attack.
- inculpating — Present participle of inculpate.
- keogh plans — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
- lagomorphic — Shaped like a hare.
- lamplighter — a person employed to light and extinguish street lamps, especially those burning gas.
- lampshading — The practice of decorating lampshades.
- lampworking — the method or process of producing articles made of glass tubes or rods formed or shaped while softened by the flame of a lamp or blast lamp.
- landscaping — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- lap dancing — an erotic dance by a stripteaser performed mostly in the lap of a customer.
- lapel badge — pin or button worn on the collar
- lapidifying — Present participle of lapidify.
- large print — text printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
- large-print — set in a type size larger than normal for the benefit of persons with impaired vision: large-print newspapers.
- last gospel — in the order of service for the Mass, the final reading of a Gospel lesson.
- lead piping — pipes made of lead
- leaf spring — a long, narrow, multiple spring composed of several layers of spring metal bracketed together: used in some suspension systems of carriages and automobiles.
- leapfrogged — Simple past tense and past participle of leapfrog.
- leapfrogger — One who leapfrogs.
- lexigraphic — Of or pertaining to lexigraphy.
- light opera — operetta.
- lightplanes — Plural form of lightplane.
- linguaphile — a language and word lover.
- lip-reading — the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- lithographs — Plural form of lithograph.
- lithography — the art or process of producing a picture, writing, or the like, on a flat, specially prepared stone, with some greasy or oily substance, and of taking ink impressions from this as in ordinary printing.
- local group — the group of galaxies, at least 25 of which are known, that includes the Milky Way.
- logagraphia — inability to express ideas in writing
- logographic — of, relating to, or using logograms.
- logotherapy — (psychotherapy) A therapy that involves finding the meaning of one's life.
- lymph gland — any of the glandlike masses of tissue in the lymphatic vessels containing cells that become lymphocytes.
- lymphangial — pertaining to the lymphatic vessels.
- magic spell — incantation or curse
- magpie lark — a black-and-white pied bird, Grallina cyanoleuca, inhabiting areas near water in Australia and southern New Guinea.
- maple grove — a town in SE Minnesota.
- maple sugar — a yellowish-brown sugar produced by boiling down maple syrup.
- megacephaly — macrocephalic.
- megalopolis — a very large city.
- megapolises — Plural form of megapolis.
- megapolitan — of, relating to, or characteristic of a megalopolis.
- meliphagous — feeding on honey
- meme plague — (philosophy) The spread of a successful but pernicious meme, especially one that parasitises the victims into giving their all to propagate it. Astrology, BASIC, and the other guy's religion are often considered to be examples. This usage is given point by the historical fact that "joiner" ideologies like Naziism or various forms of millennarian Christianity have exhibited plague-like cycles of exponential growth followed by collapses to small reservoir populations.
- mesopelagic — of, relating to, or living in the ocean at a depth of between 600 feet (180 meters) and 3000 feet (900 meters).
- misapplying — Present participle of misapply.
- misplanning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- mispleading — a mistake in pleading, as a misjoinder of parties or a misstatement of a cause of action.
- missile gap — a lag in one country's missile production relative to the production of another country.
- myelography — the production of myelograms.
- oesophageal — esophageal.
- opthamology — Misspelling of ophthalmology.
- orange peel — outer skin of an orange