12-letter words containing p, r, o, g, e, s
- oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
- opera singer — a professional singer of opera
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- overspending — the act or an instance of spending in excess of one's desires or what one can afford or is allocated
- paraglossate — having paraglossae
- passage work — 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.
- perez galdos — Benito [buh-nee-toh;; Spanish be-nee-taw] /bəˈni toʊ;; Spanish bɛˈni tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1843–1920, Spanish journalist, dramatist, and novelist.
- personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- petrogenesis — the branch of petrology dealing with the origin and formation of rocks.
- phrasemonger — phrasemaker (def 2).
- phraseograph — a phrase for which there is a phraseogram.
- phrenologist — a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull.
- pleurogenous — Anatomy. pertaining to or originating from the pleura.
- plough horse — a horse used for pulling a plough
- poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
- pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
- port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
- postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- prediagnosis — Medicine/Medical. the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition. the decision reached from such an examination. Abbreviation: Dx.
- predisposing — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- preschooling — the education of preschool children.
- prestigiator — someone who practises sorcery or prestidigitation
- pro-suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
- progenitress — a female progenitor (parent or ancestor)
- progesterone — Biochemistry. a hormone, C 2 1 H 3 0 O 2 , that prepares the uterus for the fertilized ovum and maintains pregnancy.
- prophesyings — gatherings held to expound the prophecies of the Scriptures
- protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
- pseudography — writing that does not follow conventional spelling or usage
- pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
- report stage — the stage preceding the third reading in the passage of a bill through Parliament, at which the bill, as amended in committee, is reported back to the chamber considering it
- reprocessing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- rose pogonia — a North American terrestrial orchid, Pogonia ophioglossoides, having a fragrant, usually solitary rose-pink or white flower.
- rough-spoken — coarse or vulgar in speech.
- sage sparrow — a small gray finch, Amphispiza belli, of dry, brushy areas of western North America.
- scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- scorekeeping — an official of a sports contest who keeps record of the score.
- seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
- selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
- shepherd dog — sheepdog.
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
- simple group — a group that has no normal subgroup except the group itself and the identity.
- sleeper goby — any gobioid fish of the family Eleotridae, of brackish or fresh tropical waters, resembling the gobies but lacking a ventral sucker
- sloop-rigged — (of a sailboat) fore-and-aft rigged with a mainsail and a jib.
- snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
- spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.