11-letter words containing y, g, p
- pornography — sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.
- potteringly — in a pottering fashion, slowly
- poyang lake — a lake in E China, in N Jiangxi province, connected by canal with the Yangtze River: the second largest lake in China. Area (at its greatest): 2780 sq km (1073 sq miles)
- prayer flag — a flag stamped with printed prayers, used by Himalayan Buddhists, who believe that its fluttering sends out the prayers inscribed on it.
- preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
- presumingly — presumptuous.
- primatology — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- prodigality — the quality or fact of being prodigal; wasteful extravagance in spending.
- promisingly — giving favorable promise; likely to turn out well: a promising young man; a promising situation.
- propagatory — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- prophesying — to foretell or predict.
- proselyting — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- protogalaxy — the large concentration of gas and dust from which a galaxy is formed.
- protogynous — of or relating to a flower in which the shedding of pollen occurs after the stigma has stopped being receptive; having female sex organs maturing before the male.
- prototyping — The creation of a model and the simulation of all aspects of a product. CASE tools support different degrees of prototyping. Some offer the end-user the ability to review all aspects of the user interface and the structure of documentation and reports before code is generated.
- proxy fight — a contest between factions of stockholders in a company, in which each group attempts to gain control by soliciting signed proxy statements for sufficient votes.
- psaligraphy — the art of cutting out silhouettes
- psychagogue — a necromancer
- psychogenic — having origin in the mind or in a mental condition or process: a psychogenic disorder.
- psychograph — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- psychologic — of or relating to psychology.
- psychotogen — a substance that causes a psychotic reaction.
- pteridology — the branch of botany dealing with ferns and related plants, as the horsetails and club mosses.
- ptyalagogic — saliva-inducing
- ptyalagogue — an item that causes the flow of saliva
- pulmonology — the branch of medical science concerned with the lungs and respiratory system and their diseases
- pyelography — the science or technique of making photographs of the kidneys, renal pelves, and ureters by means of x-rays, after the injection of an opaque solution or of a radiopaque dye.
- pyrargyrite — a blackish mineral, silver antimony sulfide, AgSbS 3 , showing, when transparent, a deep ruby-red color by transmitted light; ruby silver: an ore of silver.
- pyrgeometer — an instrument for measuring the loss of heat by radiation from the earth's surface
- pyroballogy — the study of artillery
- pyrogallate — a salt or ether of pyrogallol.
- pyrogenetic — heat-producing
- pyrognostic — relating to heated minerals
- pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
- radiography — the production of radiographs.
- repellingly — in a way that repels, repellently
- repentingly — in a repenting fashion; repentantly
- reprography — the reproduction and duplication of documents, written materials, drawings, designs, etc., by any process making use of light rays or photographic means, including offset printing, microfilming, photography, office duplicating, and the like.
- reprovingly — to criticize or correct, especially gently: to reprove a pupil for making a mistake.
- repugnantly — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
- siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs
- skyscraping — of or like a skyscraper; very high: a skyscraping chimney.
- snobography — an account or description of snobs
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- solenoglyph — any poisonous snake of the viper family with hollow, paired, erectile fangs
- sparklingly — in a sparkling manner
- spectrology — the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions.
- sphagnology — the study of sphagna