17-letter words containing y, g, p
- printing industry — the industry engaged in the business of producing printed matter
- proficiency badge — an insignia or device granted by the Girl Scouts and worn especially on a uniform to indicate special achievement.
- progressive party — a political party formed in 1912 under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt, advocating popular control of government, direct primaries, the initiative, the referendum, woman suffrage, etc.
- prosperity gospel — a modern version or, according to some, perversion of the gospel according to which the full blessings of God available to those who approach Him in faith and obedience include wealth, health and power
- psychic energizer — Pharmacology. antidepressant (def 2).
- psychodiagnostics — the study and evaluation of character or personality in terms of behavioral and anatomical traits, as gesture, posture and physiognomy.
- psychographically — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- psycholinguistics — the study of the relationship between language and the cognitive or behavioral characteristics of those who use it.
- pterygoid process — either of two long bony plates extending downwards from each side of the sphenoid bone within the skull
- publicity-seeking — eager to attract publicity
- pyroligneous acid — a yellowish, acidic, water-soluble liquid, containing about 10 percent acetic acid, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood: used for smoking meats.
- pythagorean scale — the major scale as derived acoustically by Pythagoras from the perfect fifth.
- rapid prototyping — (programming) The creation of a working model of a software module to demonstrate the feasibility and suitability of the function. The prototype is expected to be replaced or refined before inclusion in the final product. Rapid prototyping contrasts with a DIRFT approach which emphasises careful design and implementation to avoid the overheads of debugging and testing prototype code. Rapid prototyping is appropriate when the requirements are unclear or likely to change (which is most of the time).
- repertory catalog — a catalog containing bibliographic records that indicate locations of materials in more than one library or in several units of one library.
- role-playing game — a game in which participants adopt the roles of imaginary characters in an adventure under the direction of a Game Master.
- rough puff pastry — a rich flaky pastry made with butter and used for pie-crusts, flans, etc
- school playground — school's outdoor recreation area
- sensitivity group — a group of persons participating in sensitivity training.
- separation energy — binding energy (def 1).
- shipping industry — the industry concerned with transporting freight, esp by ship
- shopping bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
- shopping-bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
- social psychology — the psychological study of social behavior, especially of the reciprocal influence of the individual and the group with which the individual interacts.
- spark photography — photography of fast-moving objects, as bullets, by the light of an electric spark.
- spherical polygon — a closed figure formed by arcs of great circles on a spherical surface.
- split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
- spongy parenchyma — the lower layer of the ground tissue of a leaf, characteristically containing irregularly shaped cells with relatively few chloroplasts and large intercellular spaces.
- spread your wings — if you spread your wings, you do something new and rather difficult or move to a new place, because you feel more confident in your abilities than you used to and you want to gain wider experience
- stereolithography — a process for creating three-dimensional objects using a computer-controlled laser to build up the required structure, layer by layer, from a liquid photopolymer that solidifies.
- stereophotography — photography producing stereoscopic images.
- supply management — business purchasing
- sympathetic magic — magic predicated on the belief that one thing or event can affect another at a distance as a consequence of a sympathetic connection between them.
- to get psyched up — to prepare mentally
- to lose your grip — If you lose your grip, you become less efficient and less confident, and less able to deal with things.
- top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
- trick photography — photography that creates an illusion
- uncomprehendingly — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
- vanity publishing — the practice of the author of a book paying all or most of the costs of its publication
- vasovagal syncope — a faint brought on by excessive activity of the vagus nerve, causing the heart to slow and the blood pressure to fall. It can be caused by fear, choking, or stomach cramps and has no lasting effects
- yorkshire pudding — a pudding made of an unsweetened batter of flour, salt, eggs, and milk, baked under meat as it roasts to catch the drippings or baked separately with a small amount of meat drippings.
- youth programming — the creation and scheduling of television programmes specifically aimed at young people
- zero-point energy — energy in a substance at the temperature of absolute zero.
- zoogeographically — In a zoogeographical way.
- zygomatic process — any of several bony processes that articulate with the cheekbone.