10-letter words containing g, i, r, a
- paralogism — argument violating principles of valid reasoning.
- paralogize — to draw conclusions that do not follow logically from a given set of assumptions.
- paraplegia — paralysis of both lower limbs due to spinal disease or injury.
- paraplegic — paralysis of both lower limbs due to spinal disease or injury.
- paraskiing — the sport of jumping off high mountains wearing skis and a light parachute composed of inflatable fabric tubes that form a semirigid wing
- parchingly — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- pargetting — the act of a person who pargets.
- park ridge — a city in NE Illinois.
- parmigiana — cooked with Parmesan cheese: veal parmigiana; eggplant parmigiana.
- parmigiano — cooked with Parmesan cheese: veal parmigiana; eggplant parmigiana.
- parrington — Vernon Louis, 1871–1929, U.S. literary historian and critic.
- partnering — a person who shares or is associated with another in some action or endeavor; sharer; associate.
- party girl — a girl or woman who is interested in little else besides attending parties.
- pasigraphy — a system of writing intelligible to persons of all languages; a universal language
- patriating — to transfer (legislation) to the authority of an autonomous country from its previous mother country.
- patrolling — (of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.
- patterning — a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
- pelargonic — of or derived from a pelargonium or pelargonic acid.
- perigonial — of or pertaining to a perigon
- permillage — a rate or proportion per thousand. Compare percentage (def 1).
- persiflage — light, bantering talk or writing.
- pertaining — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- petrissage — a massage technique that uses firm pressure and works on specific muscles
- phragmites — any of several tall grasses of the genus Phragmites, having plumed heads, growing in marshy areas, especially the common reed P. australis (or P. communis).
- piatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- pictograph — pictogram
- pier glass — a tall mirror, often full-length, intended to be set between windows.
- pig farmer — sb who raises pigs for meat
- pig's ears — either of two common edible North American fungi, Peziza badia and Discina perlata.
- pigmentary — of, pertaining to, having, or producing pigment.
- pilgarlick — a bald person; a person looked upon with humorous contempt or mock pity
- pilgrimage — a journey, especially a long one, made to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion: a pilgrimage to Lourdes.
- pinnigrade — moving by means of finlike parts or flippers, as the seals and walruses.
- pipe organ — organ (def 1).
- placarding — a paperboard sign or notice, as one posted in a public place or carried by a demonstrator or picketer.
- plagiarise — to take and use by plagiarism.
- 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.
- plagiarist — 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.
- plagiarize — to take and use by plagiarism.
- planigraph — an x-ray photograph in which a given plane of the body is well defined and those above and below it purposely out of focus.
- plastering — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- playwright — a writer of plays; dramatist.
- pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- polarising — to cause polarization in.
- polarizing — to cause polarization in.
- portraying — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- practicing — actively working at a profession, especially medicine or law.
- practising — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- pragmatics — pragmatic sanction.
- pragmatism — character or conduct that emphasizes practicality.