8-letter words containing g, a, n, p
- partying — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- pathogen — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- peaching — to inform against an accomplice or associate.
- pearling — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pechenga — a village in the NW Russian Federation, on the Arctic Ocean W of Murmansk: ice-free all year; ceded by Finland 1944.
- pedaling — a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
- pelagian — a follower of Pelagius, who denied original sin and believed in freedom of the will.
- pentagon — a polygon having five angles and five sides.
- pergamon — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- phalange — a phalanx.
- pharming — the process of producing medically useful products from genetically modified plants and animals.
- phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phrygana — another name for garigue, used esp in Greece
- phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
- pignolia — a pine nut, the edible seed of the nut pine
- pingrass — a geraniaceous plant, Erodium cicutarium, with fernlike leaves
- pinkiang — Older Spelling. former name of Harbin.
- pinotage — a red grape variety of South Africa, a cross between the Pinot Noir and the Hermitage
- pirating — a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- placings — The placings in a competition are the relative positions of the competitors at the end or at a particular stage of the competition.
- plaguing — an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
- plaining — to complain.
- plaiting — a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- plangent — resounding loudly, especially with a plaintive sound, as a bell.
- planking — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
- planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- plantage — plants
- planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- platting — a plait or braid.
- pleading — the act of a person who pleads.
- pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
- pleating — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
- poignant — keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret.
- polignac — Prince de, title of Auguste Jules Armand Marie de Polignac. 1780–1847, French statesman; prime minister (1829–30) to Charles X: his extreme royalist and ultramontane policies provoked the 1830 revolution and cost Charles X the throne
- poontang — sexual intercourse with a woman.
- pornomag — pornographic magazine
- poundage — confinement within an enclosure or within certain limits.
- praising — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- prancing — to spring from the hind legs; to move by springing, as a horse.
- pranking — to dress or adorn in an ostentatious manner: They were all pranked out in their fanciest clothes.
- pregnant — convincing; cogent: a pregnant argument.
- punchbag — A punchbag is a heavy leather bag, filled with a firm material, that hangs on a rope. Punchbags are used by boxers and other sportsmen for exercise and training.
- pygmaean — pygmy (defs 6, 7).
- raspings — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- sampling — a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
- saprogen — a plant or animal that can produce decay.
- scalping — the integument of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous structures.
- scamping — an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.