10-letter words containing a, g, p, n
- parmigiano — cooked with Parmesan cheese: veal parmigiana; eggplant parmigiana.
- parrington — Vernon Louis, 1871–1929, U.S. literary historian and critic.
- partnering — a person who shares or is associated with another in some action or endeavor; sharer; associate.
- patagonian — a tableland region of southern Argentina.
- patent log — any of various devices for determining the speed of a ship by means of a vaned rotor streamed at the end of a log line upon which it exerts a torsion transmitted to a registering device on board.
- pathogenic — Pathology. capable of producing disease: pathogenic bacteria.
- pathognomy — the study of the symptoms or characteristics of a disease; diagnosis.
- patriating — to transfer (legislation) to the authority of an autonomous country from its previous mother country.
- patrolling — (of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.
- patterning — a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
- peace sign — a sign representing “peace,” made by extending the forefinger and middle finger upward in a V -shape with the palm turned outward.
- peacocking — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- pearmonger — a seller of pears
- peking man — the skeletal remains of Homo erectus, formerly classified as Sinanthropus pekinensis, found at Zhoukoudian, near Peking, China, in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II.
- pelargonic — of or derived from a pelargonium or pelargonic acid.
- percentage — a rate or proportion per hundred.
- perigonial — of or pertaining to a perigon
- pertaining — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- petnapping — the stealing of a pet, as for resale or ransom.
- phagedaena — a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.
- phagedenic — a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.
- phagomania — a compulsive desire to eat
- phalangeal — of or relating to a phalanx.
- phalangist — a member of a Lebanese Christian paramilitary organization founded in 1936 and originally based on similar ideas to the fascist Falange in Spain
- phanerogam — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- pharyngeal — of, relating to, or situated near the pharynx.
- phonograph — any sound-reproducing machine using records in the form of cylinders or discs.
- phosphagen — a high-energy phosphoric ester that serves as a reservoir of phosphate-bond energy, as phosphocreatine in vertebrates and phosphoarginine in invertebrates.
- photoaging — damage to the skin, as wrinkles or discoloration, caused by prolonged exposure to sunlight.
- pig island — New Zealand
- pigeon pea — a tropical shrub, Cajanus cajan, having showy yellow flowers.
- piggy bank — a small bank, having the shape of a pig, provided with a slot at the top to receive small coins.
- pigmentary — of, pertaining to, having, or producing pigment.
- pinnigrade — moving by means of finlike parts or flippers, as the seals and walruses.
- pipe organ — organ (def 1).
- piping bag — A cloth bag shaped like a cone with a small hole at one end, used to squeeze out pastes, for example icing, cream, or mashed potato
- pit sawing — a method of sawing logs or timbers, as into boards, in which the piece to be cut is laid horizontally across a pit and cut by a saw operated vertically by two people, one above and one in the pit below the piece.
- pixelating — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- placarding — a paperboard sign or notice, as one posted in a public place or carried by a demonstrator or picketer.
- plain-song — the unisonous vocal music used in the Christian church from the earliest times.
- planet zog — a place or situation that is far removed from reality or what is currently happening
- planigraph — an x-ray photograph in which a given plane of the body is well defined and those above and below it purposely out of focus.
- planograph — (formerly) to print from a flat surface.
- plasmagene — a self-replicating genetic particle postulated to be in the cytoplasm of a cell, as in mitochondria.
- plastering — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- plastogene — a separate genetic particle associated with, and influencing the activity of, the plastids
- plateauing — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- play agent — a broker representing a playwright in dealings with theater managers, producers, etc.
- play along — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- playacting — to engage in make-believe.