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8-letter words containing g, r, a, p

  • pargeter — a plasterer
  • partying — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
  • paygrade — a level on a pay scale
  • pearling — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
  • pegboard — a board having holes into which pegs are placed in specific patterns, used for playing or scoring certain games.
  • pellagra — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
  • pergamon — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
  • pergamos — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
  • pergamum — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
  • pharming — the process of producing medically useful products from genetically modified plants and animals.
  • phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
  • phrygana — another name for garigue, used esp in Greece
  • phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
  • picogram — one trillionth of a gram. Abbreviation: pg.
  • pig farm — a farm where pigs are kept and reared
  • pillager — to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.
  • pingrass — a geraniaceous plant, Erodium cicutarium, with fernlike leaves
  • pirating — a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
  • plagiary — plagiarism.
  • playgirl — a woman who pursues a life of pleasure without responsibility or attachments, especially one who is of comfortable means.
  • playgoer — a person who attends the theater often or habitually.
  • podargus — a bird of South East Asia and Australia
  • pornomag — pornographic magazine
  • porogamy — the fertilization of a seed plant involving passage of the pollen tube into the ovule by the micropyle
  • portague — a 16th century Portuguese gold coin
  • portugal — a republic in SW Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula, W of Spain. (Including the Azores and the Madeira Islands) 35,414 sq. mi. (91,720 sq. km). Capital: Lisbon.
  • postgrad — A postgrad is the same as a postgraduate.
  • praising — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
  • prancing — to spring from the hind legs; to move by springing, as a horse.
  • pranking — to dress or adorn in an ostentatious manner: They were all pranked out in their fanciest clothes.
  • pre-aged — (used with a plural verb) old people collectively (usually preceded by the): We must have improved medical care for the aged.
  • pregnant — convincing; cogent: a pregnant argument.
  • pregrade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
  • preimage — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
  • prelegal — permitted by law; lawful: Such acts are not legal.
  • presager — a presentiment or foreboding.
  • prodigal — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
  • progeria — a rare congenital abnormality characterized by premature and rapid aging, the affected individual appearing in childhood as an aged person and having a shortened life span.
  • prograde — to (cause to) advance towards the sea by progradation
  • programs — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
  • prograph — (language)   A visual dataflow programming language and environment from the Technical University of Halifax. Prograph is an entirely graphical visual programming language, other than for the text of method names, and supports the program development process in a highly-interactive fashion. Operation icons are connected by data links through which information flows. It supports object orientation via class-based data abstraction with single inheritance. Prograph is available for the Macintosh, and soon for Windows and Unix, from TGS Systems.
  • prophage — a stable, inherited form of bacteriophage in which the genetic material of the virus is integrated into, replicated, and expressed with the genetic material of the bacterial host.
  • puggaree — pugree.
  • raspings — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
  • rawlplug — a short fibre or plastic tube used to provide a fixing in a wall for a screw
  • saprogen — a plant or animal that can produce decay.
  • scraping — an act or instance of scraping.
  • sharping — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
  • spagyric — pertaining to or resembling alchemy; alchemic.
  • spangler — a person who spangles
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