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11-letter words containing p, s, a, l, g

  • magic spell — incantation or curse
  • maple sugar — a yellowish-brown sugar produced by boiling down maple syrup.
  • megalopolis — a very large city.
  • megapolises — Plural form of megapolis.
  • meliphagous — feeding on honey
  • mesopelagic — of, relating to, or living in the ocean at a depth of between 600 feet (180 meters) and 3000 feet (900 meters).
  • misapplying — Present participle of misapply.
  • misplanning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • mispleading — a mistake in pleading, as a misjoinder of parties or a misstatement of a cause of action.
  • missile gap — a lag in one country's missile production relative to the production of another country.
  • oesophageal — esophageal.
  • palaeologus — family name of Byzantine rulers 1259–1453.
  • palletising — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
  • palsgravine — the wife or widow of a palsgrave.
  • panglossian — characterized by or given to extreme optimism, especially in the face of unrelieved hardship or adversity.
  • pantologist — a systematic view of all human knowledge.
  • paraglossal — of or relating to paraglossae
  • parasailing — a special parachute, kept open with wing-tip holders to help provide lift, used in parasailing.
  • passacaglia — a slow, dignified dance of Spanish origin.
  • pathologies — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
  • pathologist — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
  • patrologist — a student of patrology.
  • pelagianism — a follower of Pelagius, who denied original sin and believed in freedom of the will.
  • pelagius ii — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
  • phase angle — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
  • phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
  • piscatology — the art or science of fishing.
  • plagiarised — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • plagioclase — any of the feldspar minerals varying in composition from acidic albite, NaAlSi 3 O 8 , to basic anorthite, CaAl 2 Si 2 O 8 , found in most igneous rocks: shows twinning striations on good cleavage surfaces.
  • plagiostome — (of fish) belonging to the genus Plagiostomi, which includes sharks and rays, characterized by a transverse mouth with the jaw suspended from the skull
  • plasmalogen — any of the class of phosphatides that contain an aldehyde of a fatty acid, found in heart and skeletal muscle, the brain, the liver, and in eggs.
  • plasminogen — the blood substance that when activated forms plasmin.
  • plastic bag — carrier bag, sack made of plastic
  • plate glass — a soda-lime-silica glass formed by rolling the hot glass into a plate that is subsequently ground and polished, used in large windows, mirrors, etc.
  • plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
  • polyphagous — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
  • postglacial — after a given glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene.
  • postlanding — occurring after a landing (of an aircraft, shuttle, etc)
  • postulating — to ask, demand, or claim.
  • psaligraphy — the art of cutting out silhouettes
  • pseudologia — a psychological condition in which a patient tells elaborate, false stories believing them to be true
  • purple sage — a plant, Salvia leucophylla, of the mint family, native to California, having silvery leaves and purple spikes of flowers.
  • ripplegrass — English plantain.
  • sailplaning — the sport of flying sailplanes
  • salpingitis — inflammation of a salpinx.
  • saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
  • sarcophagal — related to or depicted on sarcophagi
  • septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
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