12-letter words containing p, o, l, y, g
- polarography — Chemistry. the use of a Polarograph to perform qualitative or quantitative analyses.
- policymaking — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- polygamistic — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- polyglottous — characterized by being multilingual
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polytriglyph — (in classical architecture) an intercolumniation of at least four triglyphs.
- pompholygous — characterized by pompholyx
- prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- propyl group — any of two univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 3 H 7 −.
- prosyllogism — a syllogism the conclusion of which is used as a premise of another syllogism; any of the syllogisms included in a polysyllogism except the last.
- protectingly — in a protective manner
- proteoglycan — a macromolecule composed of a polysaccharide joined to a polypeptide and forming the ground substance of connective tissue.
- protistology — the biology of the Protista.
- protozoology — the branch of biology concerned with the study of protozoans
- psychologism — emphasis upon psychological factors in the development of a theory, as in history or philosophy.
- psychologist — a specialist in psychology.
- psychologize — to make psychological investigations or speculations, especially those that are naive or uninformed.
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pyramidology — a belief system based on the supposed occult significance of the Egyptian pyramids
- pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
- role playing — role-play used as a method of training or education
- role-playing — a method of instruction or psychotherapy aimed at changing attitudes and behavior, in which participants act out designated roles relevant to real-life situations.
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- saprobiology — the branch of ecology that studies decaying organic matter or environments, especially saprophytes that derive nourishment in this way.
- selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- skew polygon — the figure formed by joining four or more points, not all in one plane, by the same number of lines
- sleeper goby — any gobioid fish of the family Eleotridae, of brackish or fresh tropical waters, resembling the gobies but lacking a ventral sucker
- splenomegaly — enlargement of the spleen.
- spongillafly — spongefly.
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- supportingly — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- triple bogey — a score of three strokes over par on a hole.
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
- yellow pages — Network Information Service
- zoophytology — the branch of zoology concerning zoophytes