14-letter words containing p, r, e, o, g
- nasopharyngeal — the part of the pharynx behind and above the soft palate, directly continuous with the nasal passages. Compare oropharynx (def 2).
- nassau grouper — a colorful food and game fish, Epinephelus striatus, common off the Florida Keys.
- neurocomputing — computing that makes use of neural networks
- neurohypnology — a name given to hypnosis by the Scottish physician Braid
- neuropathology — the pathology of the nervous system.
- nonoverlapping — Not overlapping.
- nonprogressive — not progressive; old-fashioned
- northern porgy — a common sparid fish, Stenotomus chrysops, of American coastal regions of the Atlantic
- object program — a computer program translated from the equivalent source program into machine language by the compiler or assembler
- oceanographers — Plural form of oceanographer.
- 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.
- old portuguese — the language of Portugal as spoken and written from the 14th to the middle of the 16th centuries.
- on the rampage — behaving violently or destructively
- on the upgrade — improving or progressing, as in importance, status, health, etc
- 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.
- orthopterology — the study of the Orthoptera
- overdeveloping — Present participle of overdevelop.
- overprivileged — having too many advantages or opportunities compared to others.
- overprogrammed — characterized by overprogramming
- page mode dram — Page Mode Dynamic Random Access Memory
- paleogeography — the science of representing the earth's geographic features belonging to any part of the geologic past.
- paleontography — the formal description of fossils
- 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.
- paroemiography — the writing or collecting of proverbs
- 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
- partridge wood — the rotted condition of the wood of certain trees, especially oaks, caused by a parasitic fungus, Xylobolus frustulatus.
- partridge-wood — the rotted condition of the wood of certain trees, especially oaks, caused by a parasitic fungus, Xylobolus frustulatus.
- passenger door — a car door that is used by a passenger
- patch together — assemble roughly
- peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
- perhydrogenate — to hydrogenate as completely as possible.
- perhydrogenize — perhydrogenate.
- periodic group — (database) (PE) Groups of logically related fields which occur multiple times within a group. Periodic groups are a non-relational technique. An example of a PE would be for storing the history of a person's name changes, where name was kept in logically related fields such as surname, first name and middle name - with the person having changed their name more than once.
- periodontology — periodontics.
- photoengraving — a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing.
- photogrammetry — the process of making surveys and maps through the use of photographs, especially aerial photographs.
- photorecording — the act of making photographic records, especially of documents.
- phototelegraph — of or relating to phototelegraphy
- phraseological — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- phytogeography — the science dealing with the geographical relationships of plants.
- piece together — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
- pigeon-hearted — timid; meek.
- pigeon-livered — meek-tempered; spiritless; mild.
- pilgrim bottle — a flat-sided water bottle having two loops at the side of a short neck for a suspending cord or chain.
- plane geometry — the geometry of figures whose parts all lie in one plane.