9-letter words containing g, e, n, a, r
- originate — to take its origin or rise; begin; start; arise: The practice originated during the Middle Ages.
- orphanage — an institution for the housing and care of orphans.
- outranged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrange.
- overawing — Present participle of overawe.
- overgrain — to apply a grainy texture to
- pageantry — spectacular display; pomp: the pageantry of a coronation.
- pandering — a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp.
- panegyric — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
- pangender — Also, pangendered. noting or relating to a person whose gender identity is not limited to one gender and who may feel like a member of all genders at the same time.
- parceling — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parentage — derivation or descent from parents or ancestors; birth, origin, or lineage: a man of distinguished parentage.
- parenting — a father or a mother.
- pargeting — any of various plasters or roughcasts for covering walls or other surfaces, especially a mortar of lime, hair, and cow dung for lining chimney flues.
- pargyline — a monoamine oxidase inhibitor used to treat hypertension and depression
- parsonage — the residence of a member of the clergy, as provided by the parish or church.
- passenger — a person who is traveling in an automobile, bus, train, airplane, or other conveyance, especially one who is not the driver, pilot, or the like.
- patronage — the financial support or business provided to a store, hotel, or the like, by customers, clients, or paying guests.
- pattering — to talk glibly or rapidly, especially with little regard to meaning; chatter.
- pea green — a medium or yellowish green.
- pellagrin — a person affected with pellagra.
- pendragon — either of two kings of ancient Britain. Compare Arthur (def 2), Uther.
- pentagram — a five-pointed, star-shaped figure made by extending the sides of a regular pentagon until they meet, used as an occult symbol by the Pythagoreans and later philosophers, by magicians, etc.
- perpignan — a department in S France. 1600 sq. mi. (4145 sq. km). Capital: Perpignan.
- personage — a person of distinction or importance.
- pervading — omnipresent; felt everywhere
- phalanger — any of numerous arboreal marsupials of the family Phalangeridae, of Australia, having foxlike ears and a long, bushy tail.
- phenogram — a diagram depicting taxonomic relationships among organisms based on overall similarity of many characteristics without regard to evolutionary history or assumed significance of specific characters: usually generated by computer.
- phreaking — phone phreak.
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- preaching — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- preassign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- pregnable — capable of being taken or won by force: a pregnable fortress.
- pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
- prepaging — (architecture) (Or "working set model") A technique whereby the operating system in a paging virtual memory multitasking environment loads all pages of a process's working set into memory before the process is restarted. Under demand paging a process accesses its working set by page faults every time it is restarted. Under prepaging the system remembers the pages in each process's working set and loads them into physical memory before restarting the process. Prepaging reduces the page fault rate of reloaded processes and hence generally improves CPU efficiency.
- presignal — to signal in advance
- quavering — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- rabbeting — a deep notch formed in or near one edge of a board, framing timber, etc., so that something else can be fitted into it or so that a door or the like can be closed against it.
- racegoing — that goes to races
- racketing — Slang. an occupation, livelihood, or business. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
- range oil — oil suitable for burning as the fuel of a kitchen stove.
- rangeland — range (def 17).
- ravelling — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
- ravenings — rapacious behaviour and activities
- re-assign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- re-change — to change again
- re-engage — to take part in or participate again
- realising — to grasp or understand clearly.
- realizing — to grasp or understand clearly.
- rearrange — to place in proper, desired, or convenient order; adjust properly: to arrange books on a shelf.
- reasoning — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.