12-letter words containing p, u, g
- plumbaginous — containing graphite.
- plunge basin — a cavity at the base of a falls or cataract, formed by the action of the falling water.
- pneumatology — Theology. doctrine concerning the Holy Spirit. the belief in intermediary spirits between humans and God.
- pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
- pneumonology — the study of the respiratory system
- polyglottous — characterized by being multilingual
- pompholygous — characterized by pompholyx
- popping plug — a fishing lure that makes a popping sound when pulled along the surface of the water
- popular song — a song that is written to have an immediate and wide appeal and is usually popular for only a short time, but that sometimes is of a sufficiently high quality to become part of the permanent repertoire of popular music and jazz. Compare standard (def 12).
- pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
- port running — an evasive action at a port of entry in which a person drives through a vehicle-stopping point.
- posing pouch — a thong that emphasizes the genitals
- postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- poughkeepsie — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- pre-language — a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
- prejudgement — to judge beforehand.
- prelingually — in a prelingual manner
- preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- pro-suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
- prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- pronouncings — utterances, esp of an official or judgmental nature
- propugnation — defence
- propyl group — any of two univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 3 H 7 −.
- prostituting — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- pruning hook — an implement with a hooked blade, used for pruning vines, branches, etc.
- pseudography — writing that does not follow conventional spelling or usage
- public goods — services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public
- pudding club — the state of being pregnant (esp in the phrase in the pudding club)
- pudding rice — a type of short-grained rice that is suitable for making into a rice pudding
- pudding-face — a human face that is big and fat and resembles a pudding
- pudding-head — a stupid person
- puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pull strings — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- pull through — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- pulling boat — a boat propelled by oars alone.
- pump priming — the spending of government funds in commercial enterprises, to stimulate the national economy.
- punching bag — an inflated or stuffed bag, usually suspended, punched with the fists as an exercise.
- puppeteering — a person who manipulates puppets, as in a puppet show.
- push polling — the use of loaded questions in a supposedly objective telephone opinion poll during a political campaign in order to bias voters against an opposing candidate
- push through — force to accept
- pussyfooting — behaving in an excessively cautious way
- put together — assemble