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14-letter words containing p, r, e, i, n, g

  • jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
  • kelp greenling — a food and game fish, Hexagrammos decagrammus, living among the kelp along the Pacific coast of North America.
  • king's pattern — a spoon pattern of the 19th century having a stem decorated with threads, scrolls, and shell motifs.
  • knight templar — Templar.
  • l-asparaginase — an enzyme that destroys asparagine, a nonessential amino acid needed as a nutrient by rapidly growing cells: used in treating leukemia
  • laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
  • lexington park — a town in S Maryland.
  • living picture — tableau (def 3).
  • locking pliers — pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.
  • lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
  • magnetic strip — a strip of magnetic material on which information may be stored, as by an electromagnetic process, for automatic reading, decoding, or recognition by a device that detects magnetic variations on the strip: a credit card with a magnetic strip to prevent counterfeiting.
  • magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
  • masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • megasporangium — a sporangium containing megaspores.
  • memory mapping — a technique whereby computer peripherals may be addressed as though they formed part of the main memory of the computer
  • metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
  • metamorphizing — Present participle of metamorphize.
  • metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
  • mineral spring — a spring of water that contains a significant amount of dissolved minerals.
  • missing person — sb who has disappeared
  • morning prayer — matin (def 1c).
  • moving picture — A moving picture is a film.
  • neurocomputing — computing that makes use of neural networks
  • nonoverlapping — Not overlapping.
  • nonprogressive — not progressive; old-fashioned
  • offering price — the price quoted when something is offered for sale, especially the price per share, as of an investment security or mutual fund being sold to the public.
  • opening bowler — a player who makes the first bowl in cricket
  • openoffice.org — (project)   (OOo) The group that produces a free (GPL) cross-platform office suite that provides much of the same functionality as Microsoft Office including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and graphics. Each program can read and write both its own and Microsoft formats.
  • operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
  • operating cost — The operating cost of a business, or a piece of equipment or machinery is the amount of money that it costs to run it.
  • operating room — a specially equipped room, usually in a hospital, where surgical procedures are performed. Abbreviation: OR.
  • overdeveloping — Present participle of overdevelop.
  • packet writing — (storage)   A technique for writing CD-Rs and CD-RWs that is more efficient in both disk space used and the time it takes to write the CD.
  • pamphleteering — the occupation of a pamphleteer
  • panamint range — mountain range in SE Calif., forming the W rim of Death Valley: highest peak, 11,045 ft (3,367 m)
  • parcel gilding — the gilding of only some areas or ornaments of a piece of furniture.
  • parking garage — A parking garage is a building where people can leave their cars.
  • parking sensor — A parking sensor is a device on a vehicle which detects obstacles and alerts the driver if the vehicle comes too close to them when being parked.
  • parking ticket — written notice of a parking violation
  • parole hearing — a panel of people who decide whether to free a prisoner before his or her sentence has expired, on the condition that he or she is of good behaviour
  • passenger list — register of all travellers on board
  • passenger mile — a unit of measurement, consisting of one mile traveled by a passenger, that airlines, railroads, and other public transportation facilities use in recording volume of traffic.
  • passenger ship — a ship carrying passengers
  • passenger side — the side of a car which is not the driver's side
  • peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
  • penny-farthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
  • perhydrogenize — perhydrogenate.
  • perineal gland — one of a pair of glands that are situated near the anus in some mammals and secrete an odorous substance
  • periodontology — periodontics.
  • phase-wrapping — (MIT) wrap around.
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