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13-letter words containing s, a, p, g, o

  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • point shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
  • point-shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
  • polygalaceous — any plant of the genus Polygala, comprising the milkworts.
  • polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
  • polysomnogram — a record of a person's sleep pattern, breathing, heart activity, and limb movements during sleep. Abbreviation: PSG.
  • post exchange — a retail store on an army installation that sells goods and services to military personnel and their dependents and to certain authorized civilian personnel. Abbreviation: PX.
  • 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 costs — the cost of having mail delivered
  • 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
  • postage stamp — small adhesive label for mail
  • postage-stamp — of very small area or size: a postage-stamp bikini.
  • postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
  • pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
  • power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
  • primatologist — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
  • prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
  • program music — music intended to convey an impression of a definite series of images, scenes, or events.
  • progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
  • prosopagnosia — an inability to recognize faces
  • prosopography — a study of a collection of persons or characters, especially their appearances, careers, personalities, etc., within a historical, literary, or social context.
  • prostaglandin — Biochemistry. any of a class of unsaturated fatty acids that are involved in the contraction of smooth muscle, the control of inflammation and body temperature, and many other physiological functions.
  • provost guard — a detachment of soldiers assigned to police duties under the provost marshal.
  • 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.
  • reprographics — reprography.
  • rough passage — a stormy sea journey
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • salpingostomy — the formation of an artificial opening into a Fallopian tube.
  • saratoga chip — potato chip.
  • selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • shell program — A shell program is a basic computer program that provides a framework within which the user can develop the program to suit their own needs.
  • shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
  • shopping mall — mall (def 1).
  • sign of peace — the liturgical practice of giving a sign of peace, union, or friendship, as a handshake or embrace, at some point in a Christian service, esp. in a Mass or Communion service
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • social gospel — a movement in America, chiefly in the early part of the 20th century, stressing the social teachings of Jesus and their applicability to public life.
  • souphanouvong — Prince, 1909–1995, Laotian political leader: president 1975–86 (half brother of Prince Souvanna Phouma).
  • space biology — exobiology.
  • spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
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