10-letter words containing a, g, p, i
- attempting — to make an effort at; try; undertake; seek: to attempt an impossible task; to attempt to walk six miles.
- audiograph — a machine used to test a patient's hearing by transmitting sound waves directly to the inner ear
- autophagia — sustenance by self-absorption of the tissues of the body
- autopsying — Present participle of autopsy.
- beating-up — a physical assault
- big rapids — a town in central Michigan.
- biographee — a person whose biography has been written
- biographer — Someone's biographer is a person who writes an account of their life.
- biographic — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
- bog spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by accumulation in the joint, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
- caligraphy — Alternative form of calligraphy.
- calligraph — to produce by means of calligraphy: The love letter was calligraphed in a delicate hand.
- campaigned — Simple past tense and past participle of campaign.
- campaigner — A campaigner is a person who campaigns for social or political change.
- campignian — of or relating to a Mesolithic and Neolithic technological facies characterized by picks and tranchets.
- caponizing — Present participle of caponize.
- caporegime — the second in command to a capo; Mafia lieutenant.
- caprioling — Present participle of capriole.
- captaining — a person who is at the head of or in authority over others; chief; leader.
- captioning — Present participle of caption.
- cargo ship — a ship carrying cargo
- carhopping — the practice of serving customers at a drive-in restaurant
- carpooling — Present participle of carpool.
- catnapping — a short, light nap or doze.
- champaigne — Philippe de (filip də). 1602–74, French painter, born in Brussels: noted particularly for his portraits and historical and religious scenes
- champignon — any of various agaricaceous edible mushrooms, esp Marasmius oreades and the meadow mushroom
- cheapening — Present participle of cheapen.
- chinagraph — a coloured pencil used for writing on china, glass, etc
- chip wagon — a small van in which chips are cooked and sold
- chirograph — an indenture
- clappering — the sound made by using a clapper
- climograph — A chart that summarizes the climate of a place by superimposing a line graph representing average monthly temperature on a bar chart representing average monthly precipitation.
- clinograph — (in mining, construction, etc.) an instrument that records the deviation of boreholes or the like from the vertical.
- collapsing — Present participle of collapse.
- compacting — Present participle of compact.
- companding — a process in which the dynamic range of a signal is reduced for recording purposes and then expanded to its original value for reproduction or playback.
- companying — Present participle of company.
- compassing — Present participle of compass.
- coping saw — a handsaw with a U-shaped frame used for cutting curves in a material too thick for a fret saw
- copulating — Present participle of copulate.
- daugavpils — a city in SE Latvia on the Western Dvina River: founded in 1274 by Teutonic Knights; ruled by Poland (1559–1772) and Russia (1772–1915); retaken by the Russians in 1940. Pop: 112 609 (2002 est)
- de gasperi — Alcide (alˈtʃiːde). 1881–1954, Italian statesman; prime minister (1945–53). An antifascist, he led the Christian Democratic party during World War II from the Vatican City
- deep magic — [possibly from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, especially one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art); one that could only have been composed by a true wizard. Compiler optimisation techniques and many aspects of OS design used to be deep magic; many techniques in cryptography, signal processing, graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry. Especially found in comments of the form "Deep magic begins here.". Compare voodoo programming.
- depantsing — to remove the trousers from, as a joke or punishment.
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.
- despairing — marked by or resulting from despair; hopeless or desperate
- despawning — Present participle of despawn.
- diagraphic — descriptive; relating to illustration by drawing or graphics
- diaphragms — Plural form of diaphragm.
- dictagraph — Alt form dictograph.