9-letter words containing g, e, n, a
- pea green — a medium or yellowish green.
- pedalling — 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.
- peg pants — close-fitting trousers made of stretch fabric
- pelasgian — of or relating to the Pelasgians.
- 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.
- pentalogy — a combination of five closely related things, esp (in medicine) closely connected symptoms or (in art) related works of art
- pentangle — pentagram.
- 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
- phagedena — a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.
- phalanger — any of numerous arboreal marsupials of the family Phalangeridae, of Australia, having foxlike ears and a long, bushy tail.
- phalanges — a plural of phalanx.
- 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.
- phone tag — telephone tag.
- phreaking — phone phreak.
- piagetian — of or relating to the theories developed by Jean Piaget.
- pigmental — of or relating to a pigment or pigments, or the natural colouring of a person or thing
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- pleadings — the act of a person who pleads.
- pokelogan — marshy or stagnant water that has branched off from a stream or lake.
- 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.
- recalling — to bring back from memory; recollect; remember: Can you recall what she said?
- recapping — to recondition (a worn automobile tire) by cementing on a strip of prepared rubber and vulcanizing by subjecting to heat and pressure in a mold.
- recoinage — the act, process, or right of making coins.
- rectangle — a parallelogram having four right angles.
- red angus — one of a subpopulation of Aberdeen Angus beef cattle having a reddish coat.
- red giant — a star in an intermediate stage of evolution, characterized by a large volume, low surface temperature, and reddish hue.