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15-letter words containing p, l, u, g

  • juvenal plumage — the first plumage of birds, composed of contour feathers, which in certain species follows the naked nestling stage and in other species follows the molt of natal down.
  • langres plateau — a calcareous plateau of E France north of Dijon between the Seine and the Saône, reaching over 580 m (1900 ft): forms a watershed between rivers flowing to the Mediterranean and to the English Channel
  • lapland bunting — a passerine bird: Calcarius lapponicus
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • light pollution — unwanted or harmful light, as from bright street lights or neon signs.
  • lump uncurrying — Chin's generalisation of uncurrying. A curried function taking several tuples as arguments can be transformed to take a single tuple containing all the components of the original tuples.
  • lung specialist — doctor specializing in lung conditions
  • lung transplant — a medical operation in which the lungs are taken out of someone who has died and are placed into another person's body
  • luster painting — a method of decorating glazed pottery with metallic pigment, originated in Persia, popular from the 9th through the mid-19th centuries.
  • lymphogranuloma — any of certain diseases characterized by granulomatous lesions of lymph nodes.
  • magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
  • malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
  • malpighian tuft — glomerulus (def 2).
  • markup language — a set of standards, as HTML or SGML, used to create an appropriate markup scheme for an electronic document, as to indicate its structure or format.
  • massage parlour — A massage parlour is a place where people go and pay for a massage. Some places that are called massage parlours are in fact places where people pay to have sex.
  • methylene group — the bivalent organic group >CH 2 , derived from methane.
  • micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
  • motoring public — the population that drive road vehicles
  • multi-binprolog — (language)   A multi-threaded Linda-style parallel extension to BinProlog for Solaris 2.3. Version: 3.30.
  • multiple voting — the casting of ballots in more than one constituency in one election, as in England before the election reform of 1918.
  • multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
  • negro spiritual — a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South
  • neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
  • neurophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
  • neuropsychology — The study of the relationship between behavior, emotion, and cognition on the one hand, and brain function on the other.
  • optical pumping — a method for increasing the number of atoms or molecules occupying higher energy levels by irradiating them with light of the proper frequencies to raise them to those levels.
  • opus anglicanum — fine embroidery, esp of church vestments, produced in England c.1200–c.1350; characterized by the rich materials used, esp silver gilt thread
  • paralinguistics — the study of paralanguage.
  • parent language — an earlier language from which another is derived.
  • phenylene group — any of three bivalent, isomeric groups having the formula –C 6 H 4 –, derived from benzene by the removal of two hydrogen atoms.
  • photofluorogram — a recording on photographic film of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination.
  • picture gallery — place where art is exhibited and sold
  • pig, run like a — To run very slowly on given hardware, said of software. Distinct from hog.
  • pituitary gland — a small, somewhat cherry-shaped double structure attached by a stalk to the base of the brain and constituting the master endocrine gland affecting all hormonal functions in the body, consisting of an anterior region ((anterior pituitary) or (adenohypophysis)) that develops embryonically from the roof of the mouth and that secretes growth hormone, LH, FSH, ACTH, TSH, and MSH, a posterior region ((posterior pituitary) or (neurohypophysis)) that develops from the back of the forebrain and that secretes the hormones vasopressin and oxytocin, and an intermediate part (pars intermedia) derived from the anterior region but joined to the posterior region, that secretes the hormone MSH in lower vertebrates.
  • plagiostomatous — plagiostome
  • plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
  • plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • plug compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
  • plug-compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • plural marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • portugal laurel — Prunus lusitanica; type of cherry
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • preagricultural — existing or occurring prior to the introduction of agriculture; of or relating to a society existing at this time
  • propylene group — the bivalent group −CH(CH 3)CH 2 −, derived from propylene or propane.
  • pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
  • public building — a building that belongs to a town or state, and is used by the public
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