0%

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

  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
  • placer mining — mining of placer deposits by washing, dredging, or other hydraulic methods
  • plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
  • plain bearing — any of various bearings, not containing rolling elements, that present to the shaft or axle they support broad areas of corresponding form, usually segments of a cylinder.
  • platform game — a type of computer game that is played by moving a figure on the screen through a series of obstacles and problems
  • plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
  • pneumatograph — pneumograph.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • 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.
  • post-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.
  • postage meter — an office machine used in bulk mailing that imprints prepaid postage and a dated postmark.
  • postage rates — the rates charged for the delivery of mail, depending on type, weight etc
  • powder charge — propellant (def 2).
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
  • practice game — any informal game (of sports, chess, etc) played as preparation for a real game
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • prague spring — a brief period of democratization in Czechoslovakia in 1968, under Alexander Dubček.
  • praxeological — of or pertaining to praxeology
  • pre-agreement — the act of agreeing or of coming to a mutual arrangement.
  • pre-cognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
  • pre-migration — the process or act of migrating.
  • pre-organized — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
  • prebiological — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
  • precipitating — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
  • predesignated — to designate beforehand.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
  • preganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
  • prelitigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
  • preprogrammed — to program in advance: to preprogram a manufacturing process.
  • prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
  • press charges — make formal accusation
  • press gallery — a press section, especially in a legislative chamber.
  • press-agentry — the vocation or responsibilities of a press agent.
  • pressed glass — molded glass that has been shaped or given its pattern, while molten, by the action of a plunger thrust into the mold.
  • pressure drag — the part of the total drag of a body moving through a gas or liquid caused by the components of the pressures at right angles to the surface of the body
  • presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
  • prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
  • product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
  • progametangia — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
  • progenitorial — characteristic of a progenitor
  • prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
  • progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
  • propagandizer — a person who engages in, or subjects others to, propaganda
  • protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?