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13-letter words containing p, u, t, o, g

  • plural voting — right to vote more than once
  • pneumatograph — pneumograph.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • pole-vaulting — a field sport in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
  • 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.
  • postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
  • postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
  • prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
  • prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
  • primogeniture — the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents.
  • print-through — the unwanted transfer of a recorded magnetic field pattern from one turn of magnetic tape to the preceding or succeeding turn on a reel, causing distortion
  • prix goncourt — Goncourt (def 2).
  • product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
  • protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
  • provost guard — a detachment of soldiers assigned to police duties under the provost marshal.
  • pudding stone — conglomerate (def 3).
  • pull together — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
  • put to flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
  • quota-hopping — (in the EU) the practice of obtaining the right to catch a part of a country's national quota for fish in European waters by buying licences from its fishermen
  • regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
  • rotary plough — an implement with a series of blades mounted on a power-driven shaft, used to break up soil or weeds
  • roundtripping — a form of trading in which a company borrows a sum of money from one source and takes advantage of a short-term rise in interest rates to make a profit by lending it to another
  • rumelgumption — commonsense
  • rumlegumption — commonsense
  • scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • sleep through — If you sleep through something, it does not wake you up.
  • sports ground — an area of land where sports are played
  • spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
  • steganopodous — belonging to the Stegandopodes or having all four toes webbed together
  • support group — a group of people who meet regularly to support or sustain each other by discussing problems affecting them in common, as alcoholism or bereavement.
  • thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
  • torsion group — a group in which every element has finite order.
  • toxicophagous — poison-eating
  • tribune group — (in Britain) a group made up of left-wing Labour Members of Parliament: founded 1966
  • triple-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
  • turning point — a point at which a decisive change takes place; critical point; crisis.
  • uncooperating — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • upright piano — a piano with an upright rectangular body and with its strings running vertically. Compare spinet (def 1).
  • uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
  • uranite group — the mineralogical group including uranites and related minerals.
  • volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
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