13-letter words containing p, r, o, g, e, s
- gyrocompasses — Plural form of gyrocompass.
- hagiographers — Plural form of hagiographer.
- hagiographies — Plural form of hagiography.
- heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
- hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
- heresiography — a treatise on heresy.
- herpetologist — the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians.
- hieroglyphics — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
- hieroglyphist — a person who studies hieroglyphics; hieroglyphologist.
- horsewhipping — Present participle of horsewhip.
- hot gospeller — a person who preaches in a fervent and vocal way, esp in evangelical churches
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hypermegasoma — gigantism.
- iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
- impersonating — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- impoverishing — Present participle of impoverish.
- improgressive — (archaic) Not progressive.
- introspecting — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- laryngoscopes — Plural form of laryngoscope.
- leapfrog test — a diagnostic technique using arithmetic or logical operations in a routine to manage the capacity of storage media, transfer data, and check the results.
- legal process — court procedure
- magnetographs — Plural form of magnetograph.
- magnetosphere — the outer region of the earth's ionosphere, where the earth's magnetic field controls the motion of charged particles, as in the Van Allen belts. Compare magnetopause.
- megasporangia — a sporangium containing megaspores.
- megasporocyte — a diploid cell in plants that undergoes meiosis to create four haploid megaspores.
- morphogenesis — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
- mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
- mythographies — Plural form of mythography.
- nasopharynges — Plural form of nasopharynx.
- newgroup wars — /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [Usenet] The salvos of dueling "newgroup" and "rmgroup" messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide, or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed. These usually settle out within a week or two as it becomes clear whether the group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times, especially in the completely anarchic alt hierarchy, the names of newsgroups themselves become a form of comment or humour; e.g. the spinoff of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork from alt.tv.muppets in early 1990, or any number of specialised abuse groups named after particularly notorious flamers, e.g. alt.weemba.
- nosogeography — the study of the geographical causes and distribution of diseases.
- ocean springs — a town in SE Mississippi.
- open registry — ship registration under a national flag available to all ships regardless of nationality.
- opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
- opera glasses — small binoculars
- orchesography — a written study of dancing
- orthographies — Plural form of orthography.
- ostreophagous — oyster-eating
- outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
- package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
- pastel orange — suntan (def 3).
- persona grata — an acceptable person, especially a diplomatic representative acceptable to the government to which he or she is accredited.
- pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
- phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
- phytoestrogen — an estrogen-like compound occurring naturally in plants of the legume family and in grains, vegetables, and fruits.
- pigeon breast — chicken breast.
- pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
- plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- post-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.