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15-letter words containing p, o, r, n, g

  • counterpointing — Present participle of counterpoint.
  • counterpunching — Present participle of counterpunch.
  • courting couple — a pair of lovers
  • cowper's glands — two small yellowish glands near the prostate that secrete a mucous substance into the urethra during sexual stimulation in males
  • cricopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the cricoid cartilage and the pharynx.
  • cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
  • crossing patrol — a person who holds up the traffic so that school children can cross the road safely
  • crossopterygian — any bony fish of the subclass Crossopterygii, having fleshy limblike pectoral fins. The group, now mostly extinct, contains the ancestors of the amphibians
  • daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
  • data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
  • depersonalizing — Present participle of depersonalize.
  • desktop manager — A user interface to system services, usually icon and menu based like the Macintosh Finder, enabling the user to run application programs and use a file system without directly using the command language of the operating system.
  • direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
  • double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
  • draughtproofing — Present participle of draughtproof.
  • drip irrigation — a system of crop irrigation involving the controlled delivery of water directly to individual plants through a network of tubes or pipes.
  • dropping bottle — a bottle with correlated lengthwise grooves in the neck and in the stopper, permitting a controlled flow of the liquid contents in the form of drops.
  • drying-up cloth — a tea towel
  • edgar allan poeEdgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • emperor penguin — large Antarctic penguin
  • encephalography — Any of various techniques for recording the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
  • encounter group — a group of people who meet in order to develop self-awareness and mutual understanding by openly expressing their feelings, by confrontation, physical contact, etc
  • english sparrow — a small Eurasian weaverbird, Passer domesticus, now established in North America and Australia. It has a brown streaked plumage with grey underparts
  • epeirogenically — in the manner of epeirogeny
  • ergatandromorph — an ant with the characteristics of both worker and male
  • export earnings — the earnings of a company or country that are generated through the export of goods or services
  • family grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
  • finger-pointing — the imputation of blame or responsibility.
  • flapping router — (networking)   A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
  • flowering maple — any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Abutilon, of the mallow family, having large, bright-colored flowers.
  • flowering plant — a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm.
  • food processing — transforming raw materials into food
  • fore-topgallant — being a sail, yard, or rigging belonging to a fore-topgallant mast.
  • front-page news — a story printed on the first page of a newspaper
  • gaming platform — a computer system specially made for playing video games; a console: The new gaming platforms have much better graphics resolution than previous generation consoles.
  • garrison troops — troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • general-purpose — useful in many ways; not limited in use or function: a good general-purpose dictionary.
  • geneva protocol — the agreement in 1925 to ban the use of asphyxiating, poisonous, or other gases in war. It does not ban the development or manufacture of such gases
  • geomorphogenist — one who studies, or is an expert in, geomorphogeny
  • get the drop on — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
  • glazier's point — a small, pointed piece of sheet metal, for holding a pane of glass in a sash until the putty has hardened.
  • gnome computers — (company)   A small UK hardware and software company. They make transputer boards for the Acorn Archimedes among other things. E-mail: Chris Stenton <[email protected]>.
  • golden eardrops — a Californian plant, Dicentra chrysantha, of the fumitory family, having bluish-green foliage and branched clusters of yellow flowers.
  • golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • good and proper — thoroughly
  • gossipmongering — The behaviour of a gossipmonger; the spreading of salacious rumours.
  • grabber pointer — (operating system)   A mouse pointer sprite in the shape of a small hand that closes when a mouse button is clicked, indicating that the object on the screen under the pointer has been selected.
  • grafenberg spot — a patch of tissue in the front wall of the vagina, claimed to be erectile and highly erogenous.
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