9-letter words containing a, p, n, g
- dayspring — the dawn
- decamping — Present participle of decamp.
- departing — to go away; leave: She departed from Paris today. The train departs at 10:52.
- deplaning — Present participle of deplane.
- depraving — Present participle of deprave.
- diapering — Present participle of diaper.
- dognapped — Simple past tense and past participle of dognap.
- dognapper — Agent noun of dognap; one who dognaps.
- drainplug — A plug for a drain.
- dung heap — a heap of dung
- eggplants — Plural form of eggplant.
- empennage — An arrangement of stabilizing surfaces at the tail of an aircraft.
- emplacing — Present participle of emplace.
- encamping — Present participle of encamp.
- endophagy — cannibalism within the same group or tribe
- enplaning — Present participle of enplane.
- epilating — Present participle of epilate.
- escarping — Present participle of escarp.
- espagnole — a tomato and sherry sauce
- espionage — The practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information.
- exampling — Present participle of example.
- expanding — Present participle of expand.
- expiating — Present participle of expiate.
- frogspawn — The eggs of a frog, which are surrounded by transparent jelly.
- frontpage — Alternative spelling of front page.
- galloping — at a gallop; running or moving quickly.
- game plan — a carefully thought-out strategy or course of action, as in politics, business, or one's personal affairs.
- gang plow — a combination of two or more plows in one frame.
- gang rape — If a woman is gang raped, several men force her to have sex with them.
- gang-rape — to force to have sexual intercourse with several persons.
- gangplank — a flat plank or small, movable, bridgelike structure for use by persons boarding or leaving a ship at a pier.
- gangpunch — to duplicate (a punch card's data) onto subsequent cards.
- gantelope — gauntlet2 .
- gas plant — a plant, Dictamnus albus, of the rue family, native to Eurasia, having clusters of white or reddish flowers and strong-smelling foliage that emits a flammable vapor.
- gaspiness — the quality or state of being gaspy
- gaziantep — a city in S Turkey in Asia.
- gazumping — Present participle of gazump.
- giantship — the character, condition, or personality of a giant
- gippsland — a fertile region of SE Australia, in SE Victoria, extending east along the coast from Melbourne to the New South Wales border. Area: 35 200 sq km (13 600 sq miles)
- godparent — a godfather or godmother.
- grampians — a region in E Scotland. 3361 sq. mi. (8704 sq. km).
- grand pre — a village in central Nova Scotia, on Minas Basin: locale of Longfellow's Evangeline.
- grandpapa — grandfather.
- grapeline — grapnel.
- grapevine — a town in N Texas.
- grapiness — the quality of tasting like a grape
- grappling — a hook or an iron instrument by which one thing, as a ship, fastens onto another; grapnel.
- gray pine — jack pine.
- greenspan — Alan, born 1926, U.S. economist: chairman of the Federal Reserve Board 1987–2006.
- grill pan — a wide, shallow metal vessel used to contain food that is being cooked under a grill