10-letter words containing g, i, r, t
- prewriting — preparatory work for a piece of writing, as idea formulation, an outline, or research.
- priestling — a small or insignificant priest
- primogenit — the eldest child in a family
- prizefight — a contest between boxers for a prize, a sum of money, etc.; a professional boxing match.
- pro-acting — serving temporarily, especially as a substitute during another's absence; not permanent; temporary: the acting mayor.
- proctalgia — neural pain in the rectum or anus
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- progenitor — a biologically related ancestor: a progenitor of the species.
- 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.
- prognathic — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prognostic — of or relating to prognosis.
- projecting — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- prosecting — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- protecting — providing protection or shelter.
- protogenia — the first woman born after the great flood of Zeus, daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha.
- protogenic — (of a compound) able to donate a hydrogen ion (proton) in a chemical reaction
- protruding — to project.
- purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- purgatoire — a river in SE Colorado, flowing NE to the Arkansas River. 186 miles (299 km) long.
- purporting — to present, especially deliberately, the appearance of being; profess or claim, often falsely: a document purporting to be official.
- pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- quad right — (in computer typesetting) flush right.
- quadrating — Present participle of quadrate.
- quartering — one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided: a quarter of an apple; a quarter of a book.
- ragmatical — wild, rowdy, riotous
- ratcheting — a toothed bar with which a pawl engages.
- ratemaking — the process or practice of establishing rates of payment, especially for public transportation or utilities.
- rating nut — a nut that screws onto the lower end of the rod of a clock pendulum for raising or lowering the weight to alter the rate of the clock.
- rattlingly — in a way that rattles
- rear light — vehicle's tail or back light
- rear sight — the sight nearest the breech of a firearm.
- rebirthing — a form of psychotherapy in which the subject supposedly "relives" the experience of being born, in order to confront and overcome traumas and anxieties stemming from birth
- receipting — a written acknowledgment of having received, or taken into one's possession, a specified amount of money, goods, etc.
- recounting — to relate or narrate; tell in detail; give the facts or particulars of.
- recruiting — a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
- reenacting — to make into an act or statute: Congress has enacted a new tax law.
- reflecting — to cast back (light, heat, sound, etc.) from a surface: The mirror reflected the light onto the wall.
- refracting — undergoing or causing refraction
- refringent — refracting; refractive.
- regainment — the act or process of regaining something
- regelation — a phenomenon in which the freezing point of water is lowered by the application of pressure; the melting and refreezing of ice, at constant temperature, caused by varying the pressure.
- 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.
- registered — recorded, as in a register or book; enrolled.
- registerer — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- registrant — a person who registers or is registered.
- registrary — (at Cambridge University) a registrar
- registrate — to select and combine pipe organ stops.
- regretting — to feel sorrow or remorse for (an act, fault, disappointment, etc.): He no sooner spoke than he regretted it.