9-letter words containing g, e, n, r
- 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.
- peer gynt — a play (1867) by Henrik Ibsen.
- 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.
- peppering — a pungent condiment obtained from various plants of the genus Piper, especially from the dried berries, used whole or ground, of the tropical climbing shrub P. nigrum.
- peregrine — foreign; alien; coming from abroad.
- perishing — causing destruction, ruin, extreme discomfort, or death: lost in the perishing cold.
- 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
- pestering — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- 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.
- pickering — Edward Charles, 1846–1919, and his brother, William Henry, 1858–1938, U.S. astronomers.
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- pilfering — stealing, petty theft
- pondering — to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
- poppering — a type of pear tree
- porringer — a low dish or cup, often with a handle, from which soup, porridge, or the like is eaten.
- pothering — commotion; uproar.
- pottering — putter1 .
- pottinger — an apothecary
- powdering — a thin sprinkling of something on a surface
- preaching — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- preassign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- preceding — that precedes; previous: Refer back to the footnote on the preceding page.
- precising — a concise summary.
- predesign — to design beforehand or in advance
- pregnable — capable of being taken or won by force: a pregnable fortress.
- pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
- prehiring — relating to the period before hiring
- preluding — a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
- preminger — Otto (Ludwig) 1906–86, U.S. motion-picture actor, director, and producer, born in Austria.
- 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.
- presiding — to occupy the place of authority or control, as in an assembly or meeting; act as president or chairperson.
- presignal — to signal in advance
- presuming — presumptuous.
- prewiring — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- prigogine — Ilya [il-yuh,, eel-;; Russian ee-lyah] /ˈɪl yə,, ˈil-;; Russian iˈlyɑ/ (Show IPA), 1917–2003, Belgian chemist, born in Russia: Nobel prize 1977.
- progestin — any substance having progesteronelike activity.
- prognoses — Medicine/Medical. a forecasting of the probable course and outcome of a disease, especially of the chances of recovery.
- prolonged — to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer: to prolong one's stay abroad.