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13-letter words containing p, r, o, g, e

  • package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
  • parade ground — A parade ground is an area of ground where soldiers practise marching and have parades.
  • parallelogram — a quadrilateral having both pairs of opposite sides parallel to each other.
  • pastel orange — suntan (def 3).
  • pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
  • pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
  • peregrination — travel from one place to another, especially on foot.
  • peregrinatory — tending to peregrinate; relating to or characteristic of a traveller
  • persona grata — an acceptable person, especially a diplomatic representative acceptable to the government to which he or she is accredited.
  • pertaining to — having to do with
  • petrol engine — an internal-combustion engine that uses petrol as fuel
  • pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
  • pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
  • phlebographic — relating to phlebography or the X-ray imaging of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
  • photo gallery — display of collected photographs
  • photoallergic — photosensitive.
  • phototelegram — a telegram that is sent by means of phototelegraphy
  • phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • phytoestrogen — an estrogen-like compound occurring naturally in plants of the legume family and in grains, vegetables, and fruits.
  • pickerel frog — a meadow frog, Rana palustris, common in eastern North America, similar to the leopard frog but with squarish dark spots on the back.
  • 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.
  • platform game — a type of computer game that is played by moving a figure on the screen through a series of obstacles and problems
  • plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
  • pneumatograph — pneumograph.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • pocket gopher — any of numerous burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae, of western and southern North America and Central America, having large, external, fur-lined cheek pouches.
  • pony trekking — the act of riding ponies cross-country, esp as a pastime
  • port engineer — a person who is responsible for the maintenance and repair of the machinery of the vessels of a shipping line and for the supervision of its engineering personnel.
  • port language — ["Communicating Parallel Processes", J. Kerridge et al, Soft Prac & Exp 16(1):63-86 (Jan 1986)].
  • post-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • post-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • postage meter — an office machine used in bulk mailing that imprints prepaid postage and a dated postmark.
  • postage rates — the rates charged for the delivery of mail, depending on type, weight etc
  • postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
  • postemergence — occurring or applied after emergence of a plant from the soil and before full growth: postemergence frost.
  • postemergency — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after an emergency
  • posting error — an error made while carrying over an entry from a journal to a ledger
  • powder charge — propellant (def 2).
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • praxeological — of or pertaining to praxeology
  • pre-cognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
  • pre-migration — the process or act of migrating.
  • pre-organized — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
  • prebiological — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
  • preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
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