10-letter words containing g, i, m
- pig farmer — sb who raises pigs for meat
- pigmentary — of, pertaining to, having, or producing pigment.
- pilgrimage — a journey, especially a long one, made to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion: a pilgrimage to Lourdes.
- pilgrimize — to go on a pilgrimage
- plagiarism — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
- playmaking — the initiating of offensive plays in sports
- plummeting — Also called plumb bob. a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
- polygamist — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- polygamize — to practise polygamy
- polygenism — the theory that the human race has descended from two or more ancestral types.
- postmating — of or designating the period after mating
- pragmatics — pragmatic sanction.
- pragmatism — character or conduct that emphasizes practicality.
- pragmatist — a person who is oriented toward the success or failure of a particular line of action, thought, etc.; a practical person.
- pragmatize — to act or view matters pragmatically
- preempting — to occupy (land) in order to establish a prior right to buy.
- premiering — a first public performance or showing of a play, opera, film, etc.
- primarying — the mounting of a challenge to the incumbent in a primary election: There were many instances of primarying during the last election cycle.
- primogenit — the eldest child in a family
- programing — the act or process of planning or writing a program.
- pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
- pummelling — the action of striking repeatedly with or as with the fists
- ragamuffin — a ragged, disreputable person; tatterdemalion.
- ragmatical — wild, rowdy, riotous
- ramblingly — in a rambling manner
- ratemaking — the process or practice of establishing rates of payment, especially for public transportation or utilities.
- re-imagine — to form a mental image of (something not actually present to the senses).
- reemerging — to come forth into view or notice, as from concealment or obscurity: a ghost emerging from the grave; a ship emerging from the fog.
- refugeeism — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
- regainment — the act or process of regaining something
- regimental — of or relating to a regiment.
- regimented — Military. a unit of ground forces, consisting of two or more battalions or battle groups, a headquarters unit, and certain supporting units.
- regrooming — a bridegroom.
- remarriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- remigation — the act of rowing
- remodeling — to model again.
- resembling — to be like or similar to.
- resignment — the act of resigning; resignation
- rigamarole — rigmarole.
- ringmaster — a person in charge of the performances in a circus ring.
- roadmaking — road building
- rockingham — Second Marquis of, Charles Watson-Wentworth.
- rooming-in — an arrangement in some hospitals that enables postpartum mothers to keep their babies with them in their rooms rather than in a separate nursery.
- ropemaking — the act, skill, or process of fabricating rope.
- rosemaling — decorative work of Norwegian folk origin consisting of painted or carved floral designs, as on furniture or woodwork.
- sagami sea — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the SE coast of Honshu, Japan.
- sagamihara — a city on E central Honshu, in Japan, SW of Tokyo.
- sailmaking — the craft or profession of making of sails
- salmagundi — a mixed dish consisting usually of cubed poultry or fish, chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, onions, oil, etc., often served as a salad.
- same again — You say 'same again' when you want to order another drink of the same kind as the one you have just had.