15-letter words containing r, p, g
- synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
- talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
- target practice — practice at hitting the target in a sport such as archery or shooting
- telegraph plant — a tick trefoil, Desmodium motorium, of the legume family, native to tropical Asia, noted for the spontaneous, jerking, signallike motions of its leaflets.
- telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
- telephotography — photography of distant objects, using a telephoto lens.
- tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
- text processing — the handling of alphabetic characters by a computer
- thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
- thalassographic — relating to thalassography
- the grim reaper — death
- the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
- thermobarograph — a device that simultaneously records the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere
- thermogeography — the study of the geographical variation and distribution of temperature.
- thought pattern — habitual way of thinking
- thought process — thinking, train of thought
- thraco-phrygian — a hypothetical branch of Indo-European implying a special genetic affinity between the meagerly attested Thracian and Phrygian languages.
- tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
- to good purpose — with a good result or effect; advantageously
- to pull strings — If you pull strings, you use your influence with other people in order to get something done, often unfairly.
- topographic map — a map showing topographic features, usually by means of contour lines.
- trading capital — the total amount of money available for buying assets
- trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
- trading partner — a person, organization, or country with whom somebody customarily does business
- trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
- treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
- triple integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of three variables and which requires three applications of the integration process to evaluate.
- truth-value gap — the possibility in certain semantic systems of a statement being neither true nor false while also not being determinately of any third truth-value, as all my children are asleep uttered by a childless person
- tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
- turgor pressure — the pressure exerted on a plant cell wall by water passing into the cell by osmosis
- typographically — of or relating to typography.
- ultrasonography — a diagnostic imaging technique utilizing reflected high-frequency sound waves to delineate, measure, or examine internal body structures or organs.
- unchoreographed — not choreographed; not pre-arranged or pre-prepared; unplanned
- uncomprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- uncorresponding — identical in all essentials or respects: corresponding fingerprints.
- underprivileged — denied the enjoyment of the normal privileges or rights of a society because of low economic and social status.
- unprepossessing — that impresses favorably; engaging or attractive: a confident and prepossessing young man.
- unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner
- upper arlington — a city in central Ohio, near Columbus.
- upright freezer — a freezer that is tall rather than wide
- upsetting lever — the horizontal distance between the center of gravity, acting downward, and the center of buoyancy, acting upward, when they are so placed as to form a couple (upsetting couple) tending to capsize the boat.
- uropygial gland — a gland opening on the back at the base of the tail in most birds that secretes an oily fluid used by the bird in preening its feathers.
- utility program — system software used to perform standard operations, as sorting data or copying data from one file to another, for application programs or other system software.
- vanishing spray — a substance that disperses without trace shortly after it is sprayed onto a surface, used in football to mark a temporary line behind which defenders must stand when a free kick is taken
- viper's bugloss — the blueweed.
- voronoi polygon — (mathematics, graphics) For a member s of a set S of points in a Euclidean space, the locus of points in the plane that are closer to s than to any other member of S.
- voting precinct — one of several areas, each containing a polling place, into which a town or city is split for voting purposes
- walpurgis night — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- wearing apparel — clothing; garments.