11-letter words containing p, r, o, g, e
- negentropic — Of or characterized by a reduction in entropy (and corresponding increase in order).
- negrophobia — strong fear or dislike of black people.
- nephrogenic — (medicine, anatomy) that forms the tissues of the kidney.
- nomographer — the art of or a treatise on drawing up laws.
- nonpregnant — Not pregnant.
- open ground — uncovered or unobstructed ground in a wide open space
- open prolog — (Prolog, language) Prolog for the Macintosh by Michael Brady <[email protected]>.
- 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.
- oppignorate — to promise or give as security
- orange peel — outer skin of an orange
- oregon pine — Douglas fir.
- osteography — The scientific description of bones; osteology.
- ostreophage — someone who loves or eats oysters
- ostreophagy — the consumption of oysters
- overlapping — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- overpackage — to package excessively
- overprogram — to program (something) with unnecessary details or instructions
- overtopping — to rise over or above the top of: a skyscraper that overtops all the other buildings.
- page proofs — the final version of a book before it goes to the printer, containing all elements including page numbers and layout
- pagoda tree — a Chinese leguminous tree, Sophora japonica, with ornamental white flowers and dark green foliage
- paleography — ancient forms of writing, as in documents and inscriptions.
- panegyricon — a collection of sermons
- panicmonger — a person who spreads panic
- parlor game — any game usually played indoors, especially in the living room or parlor, as a word game or a quiz, requiring little or no physical activity.
- 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.
- pedagoguery — a teacher; schoolteacher.
- pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).
- perigordian — of, relating to, or characteristic of an Upper Paleolithic cultural epoch in southern France, especially of the Périgord region.
- perissology — the use of a superfluity of words; an expression of something using more words than necessary
- petroglyphy — the skill or procedure of making rock carvings
- petrography — the branch of petrology dealing with the description and classification of rocks, especially by microscopic examination.
- pettifogger — a lawyer of inferior status who conducts unimportant cases, esp one who is unscrupulous or resorts to trickery
- 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).
- phlebograph — an instrument for recording the venous pulse.
- 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.
- picturegoer — a person who goes to the cinema, esp frequently
- pigeon drop — a confidence game or sleight-of-hand swindle whereby cash is extracted from the victim as collateral for a supposed share in a large sum of discovered money, dishonest profits, or gambling winnings, which in fact are nonexistent.
- pigeonholer — someone who likes to pigeonhole people or things
- pirouetting — a whirling about on one foot or on the points of the toes, as in ballet dancing.
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- plumigerous — wearing or possessing feathers
- pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
- polar angle — Usually, polar coordinates. one of two coordinates used to locate a point in a plane by the length of its radius vector and the angle this vector makes with the polar axis (polar angle)
- poltergeist — a ghost or spirit supposed to manifest its presence by noises, knockings, etc.
- polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
- pomegranate — a chambered, many-seeded, globose fruit, having a tough, usually red rind and surmounted by a crown of calyx lobes, the edible portion consisting of pleasantly acid flesh developed from the outer seed coat.
- ponderingly — in a pondering manner
- pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.