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10-letter words containing e, g, r, s

  • perigynous — situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.
  • perrysburg — a town in NW Ohio.
  • persiflage — light, bantering talk or writing.
  • persisting — to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, especially in spite of opposition, remonstrance, etc.: to persist in working for world peace; to persist in unpopular political activities.
  • perspiring — to secrete a salty, watery fluid from the sweat glands of the skin, especially when very warm as a result of strenuous exertion; sweat.
  • perstringe — to allude to or imply
  • petersburg — a city in SE Virginia: besieged by Union forces 1864–65.
  • petrissage — a massage technique that uses firm pressure and works on specific muscles
  • phragmites — any of several tall grasses of the genus Phragmites, having plumed heads, growing in marshy areas, especially the common reed P. australis (or P. communis).
  • pier glass — a tall mirror, often full-length, intended to be set between windows.
  • pig's ears — either of two common edible North American fungi, Peziza badia and Discina perlata.
  • pigsticker — to hunt for wild boar, usually on horseback and using a spear.
  • plagiarise — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • 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.
  • pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
  • pop singer — sb who sings popular music
  • portuguese — of, relating to, or characteristic of Portugal, its inhabitants, or their language.
  • postgresql — (database)   /'post-gres-kyu-el/ An enhancement of the POSTGRES database system. PostgreSQL is an advanced relational database management system with some object oriented approaches. PostgreSQL is developed and distributed as free software, and while retaining its freedom it remains technically and featurewise a worthy competitor to even the most advanced commercial alternatives. It was also one of the first databases to offer MVCC as opposed to row-level locking or table locking, thereby greatly improving multi-user performance. PostgreSQL implements an extended subset of ANSI SQL and runs on many platforms. It also has interfaces to many different programming languages and database protocols, like ODBC and JDBC.
  • pre-design — to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge.
  • preachings — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
  • preleasing — to sign or grant a lease on (a building, apartment, etc.) in advance of construction: Agents have preleased more than 60 percent of the new building.
  • presenting — to furnish or endow with a gift or the like, especially by formal act: to present someone with a gold watch.
  • presignify — to signify or indicate beforehand; foretell.
  • press-gang — to force (a person) into military or naval service.
  • pressuring — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
  • prestorage — occurring before storage
  • presurgery — the art, practice, or work of treating diseases, injuries, or deformities by manual or operative procedures.
  • priestling — a small or insignificant priest
  • privileges — a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most: the privileges of the very rich.
  • processing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
  • professing — to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to: He professed extreme regret.
  • progressed — a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
  • progresses — a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
  • propagates — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • prosecting — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
  • prospering — to be successful or fortunate, especially in financial respects; thrive; flourish.
  • pupigerous — (of an insect) having a pupa
  • purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
  • pyrogenous — pyrogenic (def 2).
  • quersprung — a jump turn in which a skier lands at right angles to the pole or poles.
  • raised bog — a bog of convex shape produced by growth of sphagnum and other bog plants in acid conditions and the subsequent build up of acid peat
  • rampageous — violent; unruly; boisterous.
  • rangership — the office or position of a ranger
  • rastergram — Single Image Random Dot Stereogram
  • real wages — wages evaluated with reference to their purchasing power rather than to the money actually paid
  • rear sight — the sight nearest the breech of a firearm.
  • reassuring — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
  • recognised — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • recognizes — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • red ensign — the ensign of the British Merchant Navy, having the Union Jack on a red background at the upper corner of the vertical edge alongside the hoist
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