13-letter words containing s, o, g, a
- outdistancing — Present participle of outdistance.
- outstandingly — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- over-standing — overreach (def 13).
- overdiagnosed — Simple past tense and past participle of overdiagnose.
- overdiagnosis — excessive diagnosis of a disease
- overeagerness — The quality of being overeager; excessive readiness or enthusiasm.
- overlay glass — case glass.
- package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- palos heights — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- pangola grass — a grass, Digitaria decumbens, native to southern Africa, cultivated for hay and forage in the southeastern U.S.
- pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
- pastel orange — suntan (def 3).
- pay as you go — the act of paying or being paid; payment.
- pay-as-you-go — the principle or practice of paying for goods and services at the time of purchase, rather than relying on credit.
- persona grata — an acceptable person, especially a diplomatic representative acceptable to the government to which he or she is accredited.
- phantasmagory — phantasmagoria.
- pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
- pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
- pharyngoscopy — an examination by means of a pharyngoscope.
- phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
- phong shading — (graphics) A model of how light is reflected from surfaces used extensively in three dimensional graphics to generate visually realistic images.
- photo-sharing — the publishing of digital photographs on the internet
- photo-stating — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
- phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
- phyllophagous — (of an organism) feeding on leaves.
- physiographic — the science of physical geography.
- physiological — of or relating to physiology.
- pigeon breast — chicken breast.
- 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.
- plagiostomous — plagiostome
- plagiotropism — plagiotropic tendency or growth.
- planetologist — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
- plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
- 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.