10-letter words containing g, i, r, l, p
- 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.
- parchingly — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- party girl — a girl or woman who is interested in little else besides attending parties.
- 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.
- pelargonic — of or derived from a pelargonium or pelargonic acid.
- pergelisol — permafrost.
- perigonial — of or pertaining to a perigon
- permillage — a rate or proportion per thousand. Compare percentage (def 1).
- perplexing — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
- persiflage — light, bantering talk or writing.
- pier glass — a tall mirror, often full-length, intended to be set between windows.
- piercingly — loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
- 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.
- pilgrimize — to go on a pilgrimage
- pillorying — a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision.
- 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.
- praisingly — in a praising manner; with praise
- prankingly — showily, in an ostentatious or pranking manner
- precooling — Precooling is a process which improves the performance of a unit by reducing the compressor load and the head pressure.
- pregenital — of, relating to, or noting reproduction.
- preglacial — prior to a given glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene.
- preleasing — to sign or grant a lease on (a building, apartment, etc.) in advance of construction: Agents have preleased more than 60 percent of the new building.
- prelingual — of or relating to the tongue or some tonguelike part.
- prelogical — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- prevailing — predominant: prevailing winds.
- pricklings — tingly sensations of discomfort or euphoria
- priestling — a small or insignificant priest
- princeling — a young prince.
- privileged — belonging to a class that enjoys special privileges; favored: the privileged few.
- privileges — a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most: the privileges of the very rich.
- prize flag — a flag hoisted by a yacht upon learning that it has won a prize in a race.
- proctalgia — neural pain in the rectum or anus
- prodigally — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- proglottid — one of the segments or joints of a tapeworm, containing complete reproductive systems, usually both male and female.
- proglottis — one of the segments or joints of a tapeworm, containing complete reproductive systems, usually both male and female.