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12-letter words containing r, a, g, p, e

  • plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
  • plate girder — an iron or steel beam built up from plates and shapes welded or riveted together, usually including a plate or plates for a web, four angle irons forming two flanges, and a pair of plates to reinforce the flanges.
  • play reading — the activity when a group of people read the parts of a play
  • plea bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
  • plea-bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
  • pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
  • poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
  • point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
  • pollen grain — a single granule of pollen.
  • pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
  • pornographer — a person who sells, produces, films, photographs, or writes pornography.
  • port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
  • porto alegre — a state in S Brazil. 107,923 sq. mi. (279,520 sq. km). Capital: Pôrto Alegre.
  • postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • pre-assigned — Law. to transfer: to assign a contract.
  • 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.
  • pre-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • pre-packaged — Pre-packaged foods have been prepared in advance and put in plastic or cardboard containers to be sold.
  • pre-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • pre-planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • pre-teaching — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
  • precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
  • predesignate — to designate beforehand.
  • prediagnosis — Medicine/Medical. the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition. the decision reached from such an examination. Abbreviation: Dx.
  • predischarge — of or pertaining to the period prior to discharge, esp prior to discharge from hospital or from employment
  • prefinancing — financing arranged in advance
  • pregenerated — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
  • prelingually — in a prelingual manner
  • premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
  • premarketing — before the development of a market
  • premigration — occurring before migration
  • prenegotiate — to discuss before a formal negotiation
  • prepackaging — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
  • prerogatived — possessing a prerogative
  • preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
  • press agency — news-reporting organization
  • prestigiator — someone who practises sorcery or prestidigitation
  • primogenital — relating to primogeniture
  • privateering — an armed ship that is privately owned and manned, commissioned by a government to fight or harass enemy ships.
  • pro-suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
  • problem page — a feature in a newspaper, magazine, etc in which readers' problems are published and answers supplied
  • producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
  • profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
  • program note — A program note is an article written in a program for a play or concert that gives information about the performance or production.
  • programmable — capable of being programmed.
  • proofreading — correction of text
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