17-letter words containing p, r, a, g, m
- merchant shipping — shipping which is involved in commerce (rather than defence, etc)
- micropaleontology — the branch of paleontology dealing with the study of microscopic fossils.
- microphotographic — Relating to microphotography.
- middle-age spread — an increase in bulk, especially in the waist and buttocks, associated with the onset of middle age and the body's decreasing ability to metabolize calories efficiently.
- midmorning prayer — the third of the seven canonical hours; terce
- modular sb-prolog — Modular Prolog
- multiple integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of more than one variable and which requires for evaluation repetition of the integration process.
- neuropharmacology — the branch of pharmacology concerned with the effects of drugs on the nervous system.
- non-profit-making — A non-profit-making organization or charity is not run with the intention of making a profit.
- on speaking terms — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- open-end mortgage — a mortgage agreement against which new sums of money may be borrowed under certain conditions.
- opening arguments — the statements or arguments provided by lawyers at the beginning of a trial
- parallelogram law — Mathematics, Physics. a rule for adding two vectors, as forces (parallelogram of forces) by placing the point of application of one at the point of origin of the other and obtaining their sum by constructing the line connecting the two remaining end points, the sum being the diagonal of the parallelogram whose adjacent sides are the two vectors.
- paymaster general — a government minister responsible for making payments by government departments
- performance drugs — the drugs that are taken illegally by athletes to enhance their sporting performance
- permutation group — a mathematical group whose elements are permutations and in which the product of two permutations is the same permutation as is obtained by performing them in succession.
- personnel manager — head of Human Resources department
- phantom pregnancy — the occurrence of signs of pregnancy, such as enlarged abdomen and absence of menstruation, when no embryo is present, due to hormonal imbalance
- pharmacologically — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
- picture messaging — Picture messaging is the sending of photographs or pictures from one mobile phone to another.
- poor man's orange — a grapefruit
- popular etymology — folk etymology.
- portfolio manager — a person employed by others to make investments for them
- powder metallurgy — the art or science of manufacturing useful articles by compacting metal and other powders in a die, followed by sintering.
- program generator — a computer program that can be used to help to create other computer programs
- program statement — a single instruction in a computer program
- programme planner — someone who creates plans or schedules in regards to their line of work or occupation
- programmed camera — a camera with electronic facilities for setting both aperture and shutter speed automatically on the basis of a through-the-lens light value and a given film speed
- programming fluid — (jargon) (Or "wirewater") Coffee, unleaded coffee (decaffeinated), Cola, or any caffeinacious stimulant. Many hackers consider these essential for those all-night hacking runs.
- putative marriage — a marriage contracted in violation of an impediment, but in good faith on the part of one or both of the contracting persons.
- radiometeorograph — a device for the automatic transmission by radio of the data from a set of meteorological instruments
- repeating decimal — a decimal numeral that, after a certain point, consists of a group of one or more digits repeated ad infinitum, as 2.33333 …. or 23.0218181818 ….
- repeating firearm — a firearm capable of discharging a number of shots without reloading.
- request programme — a programme on the radio where listeners can request certain songs or tracks
- role-playing game — a game in which participants adopt the roles of imaginary characters in an adventure under the direction of a Game Master.
- self-impregnating — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- semi-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
- single-name paper — commercial paper bearing only the signature of the maker.
- sound spectrogram — a graphic representation, produced by a sound spectrograph, of the frequency, intensity, duration, and variation with time of the resonance of a sound or series of sounds.
- special messenger — a postal worker who delivers mail by special delivery
- spongy parenchyma — the lower layer of the ground tissue of a leaf, characteristically containing irregularly shaped cells with relatively few chloroplasts and large intercellular spaces.
- spring cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
- steamboat springs — a town in NW Colorado: ski resort.
- temperature gauge — a device which shows the temperature or heat of something
- unipalm group plc — (company) A company floated in March 1994.
- youth programming — the creation and scheduling of television programmes specifically aimed at young people
- zonal pelargonium — a pelargonium whose leaves are marked with concentric circles of a different colour to the rest of the leaf
- zygomatic process — any of several bony processes that articulate with the cheekbone.