11-letter words containing p, o, g
- springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
- spy-hopping — a vertical half-rise out of the water performed by a whale in order to view the surroundings. a springing bounce in tall grasses performed by certain land mammals, as foxes and wolves, to view the surroundings.
- steatopygia — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- steatopygic — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stereograph — a single or double picture for a stereoscope.
- stockpiling — the activity of acquiring and storing a large quantity of something
- stoke poges — a village in S Buckinghamshire, in S England, W of London: the churchyard here is believed to be the setting of Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
- stop-and-go — characterized by periodically enforced stops, as caused by heavy traffic or traffic signals: stop-and-go traffic.
- strongpoint — a fortified defensive position; stronghold.
- study group — an informal gathering of people who convene regularly to exchange ideas and information on a specific subject.
- stylography — the art of writing, tracing, drawing, etc., with a style.
- subpoenaing — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- sugar spoon — a small spoon for serving granulated sugar, resembling but having a wider bowl than a teaspoon.
- sulfo group — the univalent group SO 3 H–, derived from sulfuric acid.
- superegoist — an exceptionally selfish or self-centred person; someone who is very self-important
- supergrowth — exceptional growth; very rapid growth
- superorgasm — an extreme orgasm
- superstrong — extremely strong
- surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
- syphilology — the branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of syphilis
- tailhopping — the act of hopping to lift the tails of the skis off the ground while flexing the knees into a crouching position
- telephoning — an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device.
- telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- temporizing — an agreement for a limited period of time
- theophagous — relating to theophagy or the practice of symbolically consuming the body of God or a god
- thermograph — a thermometer that records the temperatures it measures.
- thoroughpin — an abnormal swelling just above the hock of a horse, usually appearing on both sides of the leg and sometimes causing lameness.
- tolyl group — any of three univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 7 H 7 –, derived from toluene.
- tomographic — relating to tomography
- top billing — the first or most prominent position in a list of actors or entertainers, as on a marquee or screen.
- top slicing — mining of thick orebodies in a series of stopes from top to bottom, the roof being caved with its timbers as each stope is exhausted.
- top-ranking — A top-ranking person is someone who has a very high rank or status in a particular organization or field of activity.
- topdressing — an application of fertiliser to soil
- topographer — a specialist in topography.
- topographic — the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
- torsiograph — a graph indicating vibrating movements
- tough pitch — the state of refined copper when it is soft, malleable, and flexible: tough pitch copper.
- townscaping — the act of designing a town
- transposing — the act of transposing
- trothplight — engagement to be married; betrothal.
- trypsinogen — a precursor of trypsin that is secreted by the pancreas and is activated to trypsin in the small intestine.
- tutor group — (in British secondary schools) a grouping of students who are taught together
- typedprolog — (language) A strongly typed logic programming language.
- typing pool — group of secretaries
- typographer — a person skilled or engaged in typography.
- typographia — matter relating to printing or printers
- typographic — of or relating to typography.
- typological — the doctrine or study of types or prefigurative symbols, especially in scriptural literature.