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12-letter words containing s, g, r

  • pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • pearly gates — the entrance to heaven.
  • percent sign — a symbol (%) for “percent”: a 10% drop in population.
  • perez galdos — Benito [buh-nee-toh;; Spanish be-nee-taw] /bəˈni toʊ;; Spanish bɛˈni tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1843–1920, Spanish journalist, dramatist, and novelist.
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
  • petrogenesis — the branch of petrology dealing with the origin and formation of rocks.
  • phillipsburg — a city in NW New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
  • phragmoplast — the cytoplasmic structure that forms at the equator of the spindle after the chromosomes have divided during the anaphase of plant mitosis, and that initiates cell division.
  • phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
  • phrasemonger — phrasemaker (def 2).
  • phraseograph — a phrase for which there is a phraseogram.
  • phrenologist — a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull.
  • physiography — the science of physical geography.
  • physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
  • piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
  • piercingness — the quality or condition of being piercing
  • pig industry — the people and activities involved in making pork products
  • pig islander — a New Zealander
  • plagiarising — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • plagiaristic — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
  • pleurogenous — Anatomy. pertaining to or originating from the pleura.
  • plough horse — a horse used for pulling a plough
  • poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
  • pogson ratio — the brightness ratio of two celestial objects that differ by one magnitude. On the Pogson scale a difference of 5 magnitudes is defined as a difference of 100 in the intensities of two stars; therefore a difference of 1 magnitude is equal to the fifth root of 100, i.e. 2.512
  • polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
  • ponta grossa — a city in S Brazil.
  • popular song — a song that is written to have an immediate and wide appeal and is usually popular for only a short time, but that sometimes is of a sufficiently high quality to become part of the permanent repertoire of popular music and jazz. Compare standard (def 12).
  • pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
  • port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
  • postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • postorgasmic — of or relating to the period after an orgasm
  • postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
  • pragmaticism — the pragmatist philosophy of C. S. Peirce, chiefly a theory of meaning: so called by him to distinguish it from the pragmatism of William James.
  • pragmaticist — a follower of the doctrine of pragmatism
  • pre-assigned — Law. to transfer: to assign a contract.
  • pre-existing — to exist beforehand.
  • pre-shipping — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
  • 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
  • predisposing — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • preschooling — the education of preschool children.
  • prescreening — to screen in advance; select before a more detailed selecting process.
  • preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
  • press agency — news-reporting organization
  • prestigiator — someone who practises sorcery or prestidigitation
  • priggishness — a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
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