13-letter words containing p, o, i, g, n
- open registry — ship registration under a national flag available to all ships regardless of nationality.
- opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
- opening night — the first performance of a theatrical attraction, taking place in the evening: The audience was full of celebrities on opening night.
- oppignoration — the act or an instance of pawning or pledging
- organotropism — Physiology. the attraction of microorganisms or chemical substances to particular organs or tissues of the body.
- outperforming — Present participle of outperform.
- outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
- over-cropping — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
- over-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
- overreporting — an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.: a report on the peace conference; a medical report on the patient.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- paddling pool — A paddling pool is a shallow artificial pool for children to paddle in.
- paleomagnetic — Geology. magnetic polarization acquired by the minerals in a rock at the time the rock was deposited or solidified.
- pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
- parking orbit — a temporary orbit in which a spacecraft awaits the next phase of its mission.
- parotid gland — Also called parotid gland. a salivary gland situated at the base of each ear.
- pathogenicity — the disease-producing capacity of a pathogen.
- pathognomonic — Medicine/Medical. characteristic or diagnostic of a specific disease: a pathognomonic sign of pneumonia.
- patronizingly — displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner: a patronizing greeting, accompanied by a gentle pat on the pack.
- pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
- pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
- peptidoglycan — a polymer, consisting of polysaccharide and peptide chains, responsible for the structure of the cell wall of bacteria
- peregrination — travel from one place to another, especially on foot.
- peregrinatory — tending to peregrinate; relating to or characteristic of a traveller
- pertaining to — having to do with
- petrol engine — an internal-combustion engine that uses petrol as fuel
- phone hacking — an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
- phone-tapping — Phone-tapping is the activity of listening secretly to someone's phone conversations using special electronic equipment. In most cases phone-tapping is illegal.
- phong shading — (graphics) A model of how light is reflected from surfaces used extensively in three dimensional graphics to generate visually realistic images.
- photo-sharing — the publishing of digital photographs on the internet
- photo-stating — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
- photogelatine — relating to photographic processes in which gelatine is used in receiving or transferring prints
- photographing — a picture produced by photography.
- photonegative — pertaining to a substance, as selenium, having a conductivity that decreases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
- phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
- phyllogenetic — of or relating to the development of leaves.
- physiognomies — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
- physostigmine — an alkaloid, C 1 5 H 2 1 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease to raise the level of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and also as a miotic in glaucoma.
- pidginization — to develop (a language) into a pidgin.
- piezomagnetic — involving or relating to the production of a magnetic field by applying a mechanical stress to certain crystals
- pig in a poke — something not adequately appraised or of undetermined value, as an offering or purchase.
- pigeon breast — chicken breast.
- pigouvian tax — a tax levied to counter an economic negative externality, for example taxing producers of industrial pollution in order to encourage pollution control
- pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
- piston engine — reciprocating engine.
- pitching tool — a masonry chisel for rough work
- plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
- planetologist — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
- plant kingdom — the plants of the world collectively.