7-letter words containing a, r, i, g
- perugia — a city in central Umbria, in central Italy.
- phrygia — an ancient country in central and NW Asia Minor.
- pierage — a fee that is charged to use a pier to accommodate a boat, ship, etc
- pignora — property held as security for a debt.
- piragua — Also, pirogue. a canoe made by hollowing out a tree trunk.
- porangi — crazy; mad
- prating — to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble: They prated on until I was ready to scream.
- praying — uttering prayers (to God or other object of worship)
- primage — a small allowance formerly paid by a shipper to the master and crew of a vessel for the loading and care of the goods: now charged with the freight and retained by the shipowner.
- prisage — the right of the king to take a certain quantity of every cargo of wine imported.
- racking — Also called cloud rack. a group of drifting clouds.
- rafting — a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials: an inflatable rubber raft.
- ragfish — a deep-sea fish of the family Icosteidae, inhabiting the North Pacific, having a very flexible body owing to its soft, highly cartilaginous skeleton.
- ragging — a musical composition in ragtime: a piano rag.
- ragtime — a novel (1975) by E. L. Doctorow.
- raiding — a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed: a police raid on a gambling ring.
- railage — an amount charged for transporting goods by rail.
- railing — a bar of wood or metal fixed horizontally for any of various purposes, as for a support, barrier, fence, or railing.
- raining — water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter. Compare drizzle (def 6).
- raising — an increase in amount, as of wages: a raise in pay.
- raleigh — a state in the SE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 52,586 sq. mi. (136,198 sq. km). Capital: Raleigh. Abbreviation: NC (for use with zip code), N.C.
- ramming — a male sheep.
- ramping — a sloping surface connecting two levels; incline.
- ranging — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- rangoli — a traditional Indian art form using coloured sand or powder to decorate a floor, courtyard, or other flat surface
- ranking — senior or superior in rank, position, etc.: a ranking diplomat.
- ranting — to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way; rave: The demagogue ranted for hours.
- rapping — a quick, smart, or light blow: a rap on the knuckles with a ruler.
- rasping — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- ratings — figures based on statistical sampling indicating what proportion of the total listening and viewing audience tune in to a specific programme or network
- ratling — a young rat
- ratting — any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
- ravings — If you describe what someone says or writes as their ravings, you mean that it makes no sense because they are mad or very ill.
- razzing — to deride; make fun of; tease.
- reading — an act or instance of reading: Give the agreement a careful read before you sign it.
- realign — to arrange in a straight line; adjust according to a line.
- reaming — to enlarge to desired size (a previously bored hole) by means of a reamer.
- reaping — to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- rearing — to take care of and support up to maturity: to rear a child.
- reating — to mix or merge so as to make a combination; blend; unite; combine: to amalgamate two companies.
- refugia — an area where special environmental circumstances have enabled a species or a community of species to survive after extinction in surrounding areas.
- regalia — finery, full formal dress
- reginal — queen.
- reigate — a city in Surrey in SE England, a London suburb.
- reimage — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- ribcage — the enclosure formed by the ribs and their connecting bones.
- ridgway — Matthew Bunker, 1895–1993, U.S. army general: chief of staff 1953–55.
- riffage — (in jazz or rock music) the act or an instance of playing a short series of chords
- rigsdag — the former parliament of Denmark, consisting of an upper house and a lower house: replaced in 1953 by the unicameral Folketing.
- riksdag — the parliament of Sweden, consisting of an upper house and a lower house.