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14-letter words containing p, r, o, l, n, g

  • nasopharyngeal — the part of the pharynx behind and above the soft palate, directly continuous with the nasal passages. Compare oropharynx (def 2).
  • neurohypnology — a name given to hypnosis by the Scottish physician Braid
  • neuropathology — the pathology of the nervous system.
  • nonoverlapping — Not overlapping.
  • opening bowler — a player who makes the first bowl in cricket
  • overdeveloping — Present participle of overdevelop.
  • paleontography — the formal description of fossils
  • parole hearing — a panel of people who decide whether to free a prisoner before his or her sentence has expired, on the condition that he or she is of good behaviour
  • periodontology — periodontics.
  • phloroglucinol — a white to yellow, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, C 6 H 3 (OH) 3 ⋅2H 2 O, used chiefly in analytical chemistry and in the preparation of pharmaceuticals.
  • pigeon-livered — meek-tempered; spiritless; mild.
  • plane geometry — the geometry of figures whose parts all lie in one plane.
  • planning board — development group
  • pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
  • plotting board — Navigation. a transparent table on a ship, used as a plotting sheet.
  • policy wording — Policy wording is the terms and conditions and definitions of insurance coverage as they are written down in the insurance policy.
  • polygon pusher — (Or "rectangle slinger"). A chip designer who spends most of his or her time at the physical layout level (which requires drawing *lots* of multi-coloured polygons).
  • popular singer — a professional singer who specializes in popular songs.
  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • progestational — prepared for pregnancy, as the lining of the uterus prior to menstruation or in the early stages of gestation itself; progravid.
  • prognostically — of or relating to prognosis.
  • prolog-d-linda — Embeds the Linda parallel paradigm into SISCtus Prolog.
  • propenyl group — a univalent group derived from propylene, CH 3 CH=CH−.
  • propitiatingly — to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.
  • prostate gland — an organ that surrounds the urethra of males at the base of the bladder, comprising a muscular portion, which controls the release of urine, and a glandular portion, which secretes an alkaline fluid that makes up part of the semen and enhances the motility and fertility of sperm.
  • pyriphlegethon — Phlegethon (def 1).
  • quintus prolog — (language, product)   A version of Prolog developed by Quintus. Development of Quintus Prolog had transferred to the Swedish Institute of Computer Science by December 1998. Telephone: +1 (800) 542 1283.
  • rallying point — A rallying point is a place, event, or person that people are attracted to as a symbol of a political group or ideal.
  • repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • routing policy — (networking)   Rules implemented on a router or other network device to select routes from peers, customers, and upstream providers; select and modify routes you send to peers, customers and upstream providers and identify routes within your own Autonomous System.
  • rummelgumption — commonsense
  • rummlegumption — common sense
  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • singular point — a point at which a given function of a complex variable has no derivative but of which every neighborhood contains points at which the function has derivatives.
  • sleeping porch — a porch enclosed with glass or screening or a room with open sides or a row of windows used for sleeping in the open air.
  • spelling error — an error in the conventionally accepted form of spelling a word
  • splinter group — a small organization that becomes separated from or acts apart from an original larger group or a number of other small groups, with which it would normally be united, as because of disagreement.
  • spring molding — a molded board, as one forming part of a cornice, placed diagonally and secured at the ends to two surfaces intersecting at a right angle.
  • sulfinyl group — the bivalent group >SO.
  • teleprocessing — computerized processing and transmission of data over the telephone or other long-distance communications systems.
  • trailing phlox — a prostrate plant, Phlox nivalis, of the southeastern U.S., having pink or white flowers.
  • transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
  • unprogrammable — not able to be programmed
  • vendor placing — a method of financing the purchase of one company by another in which the purchasing company pays for the target company in its own shares, on condition that the vendor places these shares with investors for cash payment
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