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17-letter words containing r, a, m, p, g, e

  • permutation group — a mathematical group whose elements are permutations and in which the product of two permutations is the same permutation as is obtained by performing them in succession.
  • personnel manager — head of Human Resources department
  • phantom pregnancy — the occurrence of signs of pregnancy, such as enlarged abdomen and absence of menstruation, when no embryo is present, due to hormonal imbalance
  • picture messaging — Picture messaging is the sending of photographs or pictures from one mobile phone to another.
  • poor man's orange — a grapefruit
  • popular etymology — folk etymology.
  • portfolio manager — a person employed by others to make investments for them
  • powder metallurgy — the art or science of manufacturing useful articles by compacting metal and other powders in a die, followed by sintering.
  • program generator — a computer program that can be used to help to create other computer programs
  • program statement — a single instruction in a computer program
  • programme planner — someone who creates plans or schedules in regards to their line of work or occupation
  • programmed camera — a camera with electronic facilities for setting both aperture and shutter speed automatically on the basis of a through-the-lens light value and a given film speed
  • putative marriage — a marriage contracted in violation of an impediment, but in good faith on the part of one or both of the contracting persons.
  • radiometeorograph — a device for the automatic transmission by radio of the data from a set of meteorological instruments
  • repeating decimal — a decimal numeral that, after a certain point, consists of a group of one or more digits repeated ad infinitum, as 2.33333 …. or 23.0218181818 ….
  • repeating firearm — a firearm capable of discharging a number of shots without reloading.
  • request programme — a programme on the radio where listeners can request certain songs or tracks
  • role-playing game — a game in which participants adopt the roles of imaginary characters in an adventure under the direction of a Game Master.
  • self-impregnating — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
  • semi-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • single-name paper — commercial paper bearing only the signature of the maker.
  • sound spectrogram — a graphic representation, produced by a sound spectrograph, of the frequency, intensity, duration, and variation with time of the resonance of a sound or series of sounds.
  • special messenger — a postal worker who delivers mail by special delivery
  • spongy parenchyma — the lower layer of the ground tissue of a leaf, characteristically containing irregularly shaped cells with relatively few chloroplasts and large intercellular spaces.
  • spring cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
  • steamboat springs — a town in NW Colorado: ski resort.
  • temperature gauge — a device which shows the temperature or heat of something
  • zonal pelargonium — a pelargonium whose leaves are marked with concentric circles of a different colour to the rest of the leaf
  • zygomatic process — any of several bony processes that articulate with the cheekbone.
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