13-letter words containing p, y, g
- pony trekking — the act of riding ponies cross-country, esp as a pastime
- postemergency — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after an emergency
- pragmatically — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
- prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
- press gallery — a press section, especially in a legislative chamber.
- press-agentry — the vocation or responsibilities of a press agent.
- prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
- primary group — a group of individuals living in close, intimate, and personal relationship.
- progressively — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- progressivity — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- prosopography — a study of a collection of persons or characters, especially their appearances, careers, personalities, etc., within a historical, literary, or social context.
- proxy gateway — proxy server
- psychobiology — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- psychogenesis — genesis of the psyche.
- psychogenetic — genesis of the psyche.
- psychographer — a person who writes a psychograph; a psychological or psychographic biographer.
- psychographic — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- psychological — of or relating to psychology.
- psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
- psychosurgery — treatment of mental disorders by means of brain surgery.
- psychotogenic — a substance that causes a psychotic reaction.
- pterylography — the description of the feather arrangement on birds
- pubococcygeus — a muscle that stretches backward from the pubes toward the coccyx and forms part of the pelvic floor. Abbreviation: PC.
- pythian games — (in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd )
- raiding party — a group of people who together carry out a raid
- rhyparography — the painting of still-life, esp of sordid or unpleasant subjects
- ring topology — ring network
- rotary plough — an implement with a series of blades mounted on a power-driven shaft, used to break up soil or weeds
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- salpingostomy — the formation of an artificial opening into a Fallopian tube.
- scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
- self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
- serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
- shaking palsy — Parkinson's disease.
- sigmoidoscopy — an examination by means of a sigmoidoscope.
- sleep hygiene — the habits conducive to getting the right amount and quality of sleep
- space biology — exobiology.
- speaking type — a device on a medal or coin that has a punning reference to a person or thing.
- spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- sphingomyelin — any of the class of phospholipids occurring chiefly in the brain and spinal cord, composed of phosphoric acid, choline, sphingosine, and a fatty acid.
- spiny dogfish — any of several dogfish sharks of the genus Squalus, having a spine in front of each of the two dorsal fins, especially S. acanthias, inhabiting Atlantic coastal waters.
- spiral galaxy — a galaxy having a spiral structure.
- splanchnology — the visceral system
- splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
- sporting lady — a prostitute.
- spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
- spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
- sprung rhythm — a poetic rhythm characterized by the use of strongly accented syllables, often in juxtaposition, accompanied by an indefinite number of unaccented syllables in each foot, of which the accented syllable is the essential component.
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage