11-letter words containing p, r, o, g, e, s
- krugersdorp — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa, NW of Johannesburg.
- macrophages — Plural form of macrophage.
- microphages — Plural form of microphage.
- mimeographs — Plural form of mimeograph.
- museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
- open string — a staircase string whose top follows the profile of the steps in such a way that the treads project beyond its outer face.
- osteography — The scientific description of bones; osteology.
- ostreophage — someone who loves or eats oysters
- ostreophagy — the consumption of oysters
- page proofs — the final version of a book before it goes to the printer, containing all elements including page numbers and layout
- passagework — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
- patter song — a comic song depending for its humorous effect on rapid enunciation of the words, occurring most commonly in comic opera and operetta.
- perissology — the use of a superfluity of words; an expression of something using more words than necessary
- phanerogams — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- phraseogram — a written symbol or combination of symbols, as in shorthand, used to represent a phrase.
- phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- plumigerous — wearing or possessing feathers
- poltergeist — a ghost or spirit supposed to manifest its presence by noises, knockings, etc.
- pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
- power surge — an unexpected, temporary increase in the current or voltage of an electrical circuit
- pre-scoring — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.
- precognosce — to conduct a preliminary examination of (a witness, a claim) prior to a trial
- prestigious — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
- proceedings — a particular action or course or manner of action.
- progestogen — progestin.
- progressing — a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
- progression — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
- progressism — the philosophy of a progressist
- progressist — a person favoring progress, as in politics; progressive.
- progressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- proof stage — the stage of publishing where trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) are read for the correction of errors
- prophesying — to foretell or predict.
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- proselyting — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- prospecting — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- sand-groper — a native of the arid region of Western Australia.
- saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
- scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- scuppernong — a silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape.
- seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- singaporean — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- sleep rough — to spend the night in the open; be without a home or without shelter
- sonographer — a diagnostic technician who operates a sonograph
- sour grapes — bitterness about sth unattainable
- space group — a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.
- spectrogram — a representation or photograph of a spectrum.