9-letter words containing p, o, g
- personage — a person of distinction or importance.
- pestology — the analysis and research of pests and how to get rid of them
- petrograd — former name (1914–24) of St. Petersburg (def 2).
- petrogram — a drawing or painting on rock, especially one made by a member of a prehistoric people.
- petrolage — the addition of petrol to the surface of a body of water to get rid of mosquitoes
- petrology — study of rocks
- phagocyte — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- phagosome — a vacuole within a phagocyte that contains bacteria or other ingested particles and that becomes fused with a lysosome.
- pharyngo- — pharynx
- phellogen — cork cambium, a layer of tissue or secondary meristem external to the true cambium, giving rise to cork tissue.
- phenogram — a diagram depicting taxonomic relationships among organisms based on overall similarity of many characteristics without regard to evolutionary history or assumed significance of specific characters: usually generated by computer.
- phenology — the science dealing with the influence of climate on the recurrence of such annual phenomena of animal and plant life as budding and bird migrations.
- philogyny — love of or liking for women.
- philology — the study of literary texts and of written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning.
- phone tag — telephone tag.
- phonogram — a unit symbol of a phonetic writing system, standing for a speech sound, syllable, or other sequence of speech sounds without reference to meaning.
- phonology — the study of the distribution and patterning of speech sounds in a language and of the tacit rules governing pronunciation.
- photalgia — pain, as in an eye, that is caused by intensity of light.
- photogene — an afterimage on the retina.
- photogram — a silhouette photograph made by placing an object directly on sensitized paper and exposing it to light.
- phycology — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- phylogeny — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- phytology — botany.
- pictogram — pictograph.
- pigeonite — a monoclinic variety of pyroxene consisting mainly of a mixture of (MgFe)SiO 3 and CaMg(SiO 3) 2 .
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- ping-pong — to move back and forth or transfer rapidly from one locale, job, etc., to another; switch: The patient was ping-ponged from one medical specialist to another.
- pistology — the branch of theology dealing with faith.
- plainsong — the unisonous vocal music used in the Christian church from the earliest times.
- plate-dog — a heavy metal plate on which plates, stereos, etc., are locked into position for printing on a rotary press.
- playdough — children's modelling clay
- playgoing — the activity of attending the theatre
- playgroup — a group of small children, especially preschoolers, organized for play or play activities and supervised by adult volunteers.
- plough on — If you plough on, you continue moving or trying to complete something, even though it takes a lot of effort to go on.
- plough up — If someone ploughs up an area of land, they plough it, usually in order to turn it into land used for growing crops.
- ploughboy — a boy who guides the animals drawing a plough
- ploughing — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- ploughman — A ploughman is a man whose job it is to plough the land, especially with a plough pulled by horses or oxen.
- plowright — Dame Joan. born 1929, British actress, married to Laurence Olivier (1961–89)
- plug into — If you plug into a computer system, you are able to use it or see the information stored on it.
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- plutology — the study of wealth
- pocketing — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- podgorica — a republic in S Europe since 2006: formerly a constituent republic of Yugoslavia, in the SW part (1918–2006); an independent kingdom 1878–1918. 6333 sq. mi. (13,812 sq. km). Capital: Podgorica.
- poenology — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- pogromist — a person who participates in a pogrom
- poignancy — the state or condition of being poignant.
- poisoning — a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
- pokelogan — marshy or stagnant water that has branched off from a stream or lake.
- poly-drug — being or pertaining to several drug used simultaneously, especially narcotics or addictive drugs: a center for dealing with polydrug abuse.