6-letter words containing g, p
- pining — to yearn deeply; suffer with longing; long painfully (often followed by for): to pine for one's home and family.
- pipage — conveyance, as of water, gas, or oil, by means of pipes.
- piping — pipe
- pirogi — a small dough envelope filled with mashed potato, meat, cheese, or vegetables, crimped to seal the edge and then boiled or fried, typically served with sour cream or onions.
- pisgah — Mount, a mountain ridge of ancient Moab, now in Jordan, NE of the Dead Sea: from its summit (Mt. Nebo) Moses viewed the Promised Land. Deut. 34:1.
- plagal — (of a Gregorian mode) having the final in the middle of the compass. Compare authentic (def 6a).
- plagi- — plagio-
- plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
- plaguy — such as to plague, torment, or annoy; vexatious: a plaguy pile of debts.
- pledge — a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something: a pledge of aid; a pledge not to wage war.
- plight — Archaic. pledge.
- plodge — to wade in water, esp the sea
- plonge — to clean (drains) by action of the tide
- plough — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- plugin — capable of or designed for being connected to an electrical power source by plugging in or inserting: a plug-in hair dryer; a plug-in transistor.
- plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
- plying — British Dialect. to bend, fold, or mold.
- pogany — Willy (William Andrew) 1882–1955, U.S. painter, stage designer, and illustrator; born in Hungary.
- pogrom — an organized massacre, especially of Jews.
- pohang — a port city in SE South Korea.
- poking — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- poling — a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.: a telephone pole; a fishing pole.
- pongee — silk of a slightly uneven weave made from filaments of wild silk woven in natural tan color.
- pongid — any anthropoid primate of the family Pongidae, comprising the gorilla, chimpanzee, and orangutan; a great ape.
- poogye — a Hindu nose-flute
- pooing — excrement.
- popgun — a child's toy gun from which a pellet is shot by compressed air, producing a loud pop.
- poplog — A multi-language programming environment, which includes the languages Pop-11, ML, Common Lisp and Prolog. It supports mixed-language programming and incremental compilation and includes a comprehensive X Window System interface. It is built on top of a two-stack virtual machine, PVM. POPLOG was developed at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
- poring — to read or study with steady attention or application: a scholar poring over a rare old manuscript.
- posing — to assume a particular attitude or stance, especially with the hope of impressing others: He likes to pose as an authority on literature.
- potage — soup, especially any thick soup made with cream.
- potgun — a pot-shaped gun or mortar, a gun with a large bore
- poyang — a lake in E China, in Kiangsi province. 90 miles (145 km) long.
- pragma — (programming) (pragmatic information) A standardised form of comment which has meaning to the compiler or some other program. It may use a special syntax or a specific form within the normal comment syntax. A pragma usually conveys non-essential information, often intended to help the compiler to optimise the program or to generate formatted documentation.
- prague — a republic in central Europe: includes the regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and part of Silesia; formerly part of Czechoslovakia; independent since 1993. 30,449 sq. mi. (78,864 sq. km). Capital: Prague.
- preage — the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to: trees of unknown age; His age is 20 years.
- prelog — Vladimir [vlad-uh-meer] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1906–98, Swiss chemist, born in Yugoslavia: Nobel prize 1975.
- progun — in favour of the public owning firearms
- proleg — one of the abdominal ambulatory processes of caterpillars and other larvae, as distinct from the true or thoracic legs.
- prolog — a preliminary discourse; a preface or introductory part of a discourse, poem, or novel.
- prying — that pries; looking or searching curiously.
- pugdog — pug1 (def 1).
- pugged — to track (especially game) by following footprints or another spoor.
- puggle — to stir up by poking
- puglia — Italian name of Apulia.
- pugree — a light turban worn in India.
- puling — whining; whimpering: a puling child.
- pungle — to make a payment or contribution of (money)
- purger — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- purges — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.