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12-letter words containing t, r, a, n, g

  • overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
  • overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
  • page printer — Computers. a high-speed, high-resolution printer that uses a light source, as a laser beam or electrically charged ions, to print a full page of text or graphics at a time.
  • paint bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
  • pair skating — a form of competitive skating in which a man and a woman skate together in performing a choreographed series of jumps, lifts, and other acrobatic moves to a selection of music.
  • panty girdle — women's control pants
  • paragnathism — the condition or fact of having upper and lower jaws of equal length
  • paragnathous — (of certain vertebrates) having the upper and lower jaws of equal length
  • paramagnetic — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
  • parent group — a large organization that owns a number of smaller separate commercial or industrial firms
  • part-writing — the aspect of composition concerned with the writing of parts, esp counterpoint
  • partializing — to bias.
  • parting line — the line at which two closed dies or two halves of a mold meet.
  • parting shot — a threat, insult, condemnation, sarcastic retort, or the like, uttered upon leaving.
  • partitioning — Partitioning is when a solute is distributed between two phases in a separation process.
  • 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.
  • patent right — the exclusive right granted by a patent, as on an invention.
  • pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
  • patrilineage — lineal descent traced through the male line.
  • patrol wagon — an enclosed truck or van used by the police to transport prisoners.
  • perinatology — a field of medicine focusing on problems emerging during the perinatal period.
  • permanganate — a salt of permanganic acid, as potassium permanganate.
  • perpetrating — to commit: to perpetrate a crime.
  • perpetuating — to make perpetual.
  • pharyngotomy — surgical incision into the pharynx
  • photoengrave — to make a photoengraving of.
  • pig-ignorant — extremely ignorant or unknowledgeable
  • 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
  • point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
  • ponta grossa — a city in S Brazil.
  • port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
  • powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • pre-planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • pre-teaching — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
  • precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
  • predesignate — to designate beforehand.
  • pregenerated — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
  • premarketing — before the development of a market
  • premigration — occurring before migration
  • prenegotiate — to discuss before a formal negotiation
  • primogenital — relating to primogeniture
  • privateering — an armed ship that is privately owned and manned, commissioned by a government to fight or harass enemy ships.
  • progradation — seaward growth of a beach, delta, fan, etc., by progressive deposition of sediment by rivers or shoreline processes.
  • program note — A program note is an article written in a program for a play or concert that gives information about the performance or production.
  • prolongation — the act of prolonging: the prolongation of a line.
  • promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • propagandist — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
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