10-letter words containing g, e, n, a, p
- necrophagy — The eating of dead or decaying animal flesh.
- nephograph — an instrument for photographing clouds
- nephralgia — kidney pain.
- nightscape — a scene viewed at night, especially as represented in art.
- opalescing — Present participle of opalesce.
- operagoing — Attending opera performances.
- orange-tip — a European butterfly, Anthocharis cardamines, having whitish wings with orange-tipped forewings: family Pieridae
- organ pipe — one of the pipes of a pipe organ.
- orphanages — Plural form of orphanage.
- outleaping — Present participle of outleap.
- pacemaking — the act of setting a pace for race competitors
- palaeogene — of or formed in the Palaeocene, Eocene, and Oligocene epochs
- palagonite — a yellow basaltic glass
- palavering — a conference or discussion.
- pan-german — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- panegyrize — to deliver or write a panegyric about; eulogize.
- panel game — a game in which the teams consists of two or more opposing panels or groups of people who discuss or decide on the answers, etc together
- pangenesis — the theory that a reproductive cell contains gemmules or invisible germs that were derived from the individual cells from every part of the organism and that these gemmules are the bearers of hereditary attributes.
- panguingue — a card game of the rummy family that is played with from five to eight regular 52-card packs from which the eights, nines, and tens have been removed, the object being to win bonuses by melding certain groups of cards during the play and extra bonuses by melding all the cards in the hand.
- pantagruel — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- paragonite — a mica, similar in composition and appearance to muscovite but containing sodium instead of potassium.
- paramagnet — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
- paregmenon — the juxtaposition of words that have a common derivation, as in “sense and sensibility.”.
- pargetting — the act of a person who pargets.
- park range — a range of the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado. Highest peak, Mt. Lincoln, 14,287 feet (4355 meters).
- partnering — a person who shares or is associated with another in some action or endeavor; sharer; associate.
- 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.
- 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.
- phalangeal — of or relating to a phalanx.
- 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.
- phosphagen — a high-energy phosphoric ester that serves as a reservoir of phosphate-bond energy, as phosphocreatine in vertebrates and phosphoarginine in invertebrates.
- pigeon pea — a tropical shrub, Cajanus cajan, having showy yellow flowers.
- 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).
- 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.