11-letter words containing g, r, a, p
- preboarding — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
- preen gland — uropygial gland.
- pregenerate — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
- premarriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- prendergast — Maurice Brazil [braz-uh l] /ˈbræz əl/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, U.S. painter.
- prepackaged — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
- prerogative — an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
- presagement — an omen
- press agent — a person employed to promote the interests of an individual, organization, etc., by obtaining favorable publicity through advertisements, mentions in columns, and the like.
- preterlegal — being beyond the scope or limits of law.
- pretraining — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
- price range — the highest and lowest price of a commodity, security, etc., over a given period of time.
- primatology — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- primigenial — relating to an early stage of existence; primitive
- printmaking — the art or technique of making prints, especially as practiced in engraving, etching, drypoint, woodcut or serigraphy.
- prodigality — the quality or fact of being prodigal; wasteful extravagance in spending.
- prodigalize — to spend lavishly
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- programable — capable of being programmed.
- programming — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- prolegomena — a preliminary discussion; introductory essay, as prefatory matter in a book; a prologue.
- prolongable — able to be lengthened
- prolongated — to prolong.
- promenading — a stroll or walk, especially in a public place, as for pleasure or display.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- promulgator — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- proof stage — the stage of publishing where trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) are read for the correction of errors
- propagandas — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
- propagation — the act of propagating.
- propagative — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- propagatory — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- prorogation — to discontinue a session of (the British Parliament or a similar body).
- prostrating — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- protagonism — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- protagonist — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- protogalaxy — the large concentration of gas and dust from which a galaxy is formed.
- psaligraphy — the art of cutting out silhouettes
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- psychograph — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- purgatorial — removing or purging sin; expiatory: purgatorial rites.
- purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
- purple sage — a plant, Salvia leucophylla, of the mint family, native to California, having silvery leaves and purple spikes of flowers.
- pyelography — the science or technique of making photographs of the kidneys, renal pelves, and ureters by means of x-rays, after the injection of an opaque solution or of a radiopaque dye.
- pyrargyrite — a blackish mineral, silver antimony sulfide, AgSbS 3 , showing, when transparent, a deep ruby-red color by transmitted light; ruby silver: an ore of silver.
- pyroballogy — the study of artillery
- pyrogallate — a salt or ether of pyrogallol.
- pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
- quadrupling — Present participle of quadruple.
- radiography — the production of radiographs.