5-letter words containing g, p
- grasp — to seize and hold by or as if by clasping with the fingers or arms.
- gripe — Informal. to complain naggingly or constantly; grumble.
- grips — Plural form of grip.
- gript — a past participle and simple past tense of grip.
- gripy — resembling or causing gripes.
- groop — (obsolete, or, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A trench or small ditch.
- grope — to feel about with the hands; feel one's way: I had to grope around in the darkness before I found the light switch.
- group — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
- grump — a person given to constant complaining.
- gulps — Plural form of gulp.
- gulpy — Inclined to gulp.
- guppy — a small, freshwater topminnow, Poecilia reticulata, often kept in aquariums.
- gupta — a dynasty of N India (a.d. 320–540) whose court was the center of classical Indian art and literature.
- gweep — /gweep/ To hack, usually at night, or one who does so. At WPI, from 1977 onward, gweeps could often be found at the College Computing Center punching cards or crashing the PDP-10 or, later, the DEC-20. The term has survived the demise of those technologies, however, and is still alive in late 1991. "I'm going to go gweep for a while. See you in the morning." "I gweep from 8 PM till 3 AM during the week." "Gweep" originated as an onomatopeiac term, evoking the sound of the (once-ubiquitous) Hazeltine 9000 terminals' bell on WPI campus. A gweep is one step above a fweep.
- gypos — gyppo.
- gyppo — a logger who operates on a small budget and typically gleans the timberlands already cut by larger companies.
- gypse — Obsolete form of gypsum.
- gypsy — a member of a nomadic, Caucasoid people of generally swarthy complexion, who migrated originally from India, settling in various parts of Asia, Europe, and, most recently, North America.
- hp-gl — Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language
- oping — Present participle of ope.
- pagad — People Against Gangsterism and Drugs, a vigilante organization formed in the Western Cape around 1995 and subsequently associated with Islamic fundamentalism
- pagan — (no longer in technical use) one of a people or community observing a polytheistic religion, as the ancient Romans and Greeks.
- paged — paging
- pager — beeper (def 3).
- paget — Sir James, 1814–99, English surgeon and pathologist.
- pagne — a garment worn by some African peoples, consisting of a rectangular strip of cloth fashioned into a loincloth or wrapped on the body so as to form a short skirt.
- pagri — a turban or head-scarf
- paige — Leroy Robert ("Satchel") 1906–82, U.S. baseball player.
- panga — a large, broad-bladed African knife used as a weapon or as an implement for cutting heavy jungle growth, sugar cane, etc.; machete.
- pangs — a sudden feeling of mental or emotional distress or longing: a pang of remorse; a pang of desire.
- parge — to coat or cover with plaster
- pargo — a generic name for any sea bream or snapper fish
- pasig — a city on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines, E of Manila.
- peggy — a female given name, form of Margaret.
- péguy — Charles (ʃarl). 1873–1914, French poet and essayist, whose works include Le Mystère de la charité de Jeanne d'Arc (1910); founder of the journal Cahiers de la quinzaine (1900–14): killed in World War I
- pengo — a former silver coin and monetary unit of Hungary, equal to 100 fillér: replaced by the forint in 1946.
- pg-13 — In the United States, films that are labelled PG-13 are not considered suitable for children under the age of thirteen, but parents can decide whether or not to allow their children to see the films. PG is an abbreviation for 'parental guidance'.
- phag- — phago-
- phage — bacteriophage.
- phigs — Programmers Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System
- pidog — an ownerless half-wild dog of uncertain breeding, common in the villages and towns of India and other countries in east and south Asia.
- piggy — a small or young pig.
- pight — to pitch or set up (a tent)
- pigmy — Anthropology. a member of a small-statured people native to equatorial Africa. a Negrito of southeastern Asia, or of the Andaman or Philippine islands.
- pigui — Platform Independent Graphical User Interface
- piigs — Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain: seen collectively as the members of the European single currency whose national economies are least stable
- piing — printing types mixed together indiscriminately.
- pingo — a hill of soil-covered ice pushed up by hydrostatic pressure in an area of permafrost.
- pirog — a large pie filled with meat, vegetables, etc
- pjpeg — Progressive JPEG