11-letter words containing p, r, o, g
- piano organ — a mechanical piano that is built like a barrel organ
- piatigorsky — Gregor [greg-er] /ˈgrɛg ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–76, U.S. cellist, born in Russia.
- pictography — the use of pictographs; picture writing.
- 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
- pignoration — the act or process of pledging or pawning
- piping cord — Cord that is covered in fabric and used to decorate a seam
- pirouetting — a whirling about on one foot or on the points of the toes, as in ballet dancing.
- pistol grip — a handle or grip, as of a rifle or saw, shaped like the butt of a pistol.
- piston ring — a metallic ring, usually one of a series, and split so as to be expansible, placed around a piston in order to maintain a tight fit, as inside the cylinder of an engine.
- planography — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
- platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
- 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.
- point group — a class of crystals determined by a combination of their symmetry elements, all crystals left unchanged by a given set of symmetry elements being placed in the same class.
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- 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)
- polarograph — a device for analysing ions in solution by using an electrolytic cell with a very small cathode
- poll rating — a measurement of a politician's popularity among the electorate, obtained by canvassing a representative sample of people
- poltergeist — a ghost or spirit supposed to manifest its presence by noises, knockings, etc.
- polyangular — multangular; multiangular.
- polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
- polygraphic — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- 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.
- pompom girl — a female cheerleader, as for a football team, whose routines often include the waving of large flowerlike clusters or streamers resembling pompoms.
- ponderingly — in a pondering manner
- pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
- pornography — sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.
- porriginous — pertaining to or designating porrigo
- port gentil — a seaport in W Gabon.
- port orange — a city in E Florida.
- port-gentil — a seaport in W Gabon.
- posturizing — to posture; pose.
- potteringly — in a pottering fashion, slowly
- pouring box — tundish (def 2).
- powder flag — red flag (def 4).
- power surge — an unexpected, temporary increase in the current or voltage of an electrical circuit
- prairie dog — any of several burrowing rodents of the genus Cynomys, of North American prairies, having a barklike cry: some are endangered.
- pre-college — an institution of higher learning, especially one providing a general or liberal arts education rather than technical or professional training. Compare university.
- pre-embargo — an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
- pre-opening — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
- pre-scoring — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.
- preboarding — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
- precognosce — to conduct a preliminary examination of (a witness, a claim) prior to a trial
- preignition — ignition of the charge in an internal-combustion engine earlier in the cycle than is compatible with proper operation.
- prerogative — an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
- prestigious — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
- primatology — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.