9-letter words containing g, r, a, p
- pastorage — pastorate.
- pastoring — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pasturage — pasture.
- pasturing — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- patrology — Also called patristics. the branch of theology dealing with the teachings of the church fathers.
- patronage — the financial support or business provided to a store, hotel, or the like, by customers, clients, or paying guests.
- pattering — to talk glibly or rapidly, especially with little regard to meaning; chatter.
- pavlograd — a city in E Ukraine, E of Dnepropetrovsk.
- pay grade — the grade of a member of the armed services established according to a scale of increasing amounts of base pay and related to but not identical with official rank.
- pea green — a medium or yellowish green.
- pedograph — an imprint on paper of the foot.
- pellagrin — a person affected with pellagra.
- pendragon — either of two kings of ancient Britain. Compare Arthur (def 2), Uther.
- pentagram — a five-pointed, star-shaped figure made by extending the sides of a regular pentagon until they meet, used as an occult symbol by the Pythagoreans and later philosophers, by magicians, etc.
- perpignan — a department in S France. 1600 sq. mi. (4145 sq. km). Capital: Perpignan.
- personage — a person of distinction or importance.
- pervading — omnipresent; felt everywhere
- peshmerga — a member of the armed forces in the autonomous Kurdish-controlled region of NE Iraq
- petrograd — former name (1914–24) of St. Petersburg (def 2).
- petrogram — a drawing or painting on rock, especially one made by a member of a prehistoric people.
- petrolage — the addition of petrol to the surface of a body of water to get rid of mosquitoes
- phalanger — any of numerous arboreal marsupials of the family Phalangeridae, of Australia, having foxlike ears and a long, bushy tail.
- phansigar — a person from East India who operates as a thief and a murderer
- pharyngo- — pharynx
- phenogram — a diagram depicting taxonomic relationships among organisms based on overall similarity of many characteristics without regard to evolutionary history or assumed significance of specific characters: usually generated by computer.
- phonogram — a unit symbol of a phonetic writing system, standing for a speech sound, syllable, or other sequence of speech sounds without reference to meaning.
- photogram — a silhouette photograph made by placing an object directly on sensitized paper and exposing it to light.
- phreaking — phone phreak.
- pictogram — pictograph.
- pig's ear — ear of a pig
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- pilferage — the act or practice of pilfering; petty theft.
- pilgarlic — a person regarded with mild or pretended contempt or pity.
- pin grass — common storksbill, a weed with fernlike leaves
- pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
- playgroup — a group of small children, especially preschoolers, organized for play or play activities and supervised by adult volunteers.
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- podgorica — a republic in S Europe since 2006: formerly a constituent republic of Yugoslavia, in the SW part (1918–2006); an independent kingdom 1878–1918. 6333 sq. mi. (13,812 sq. km). Capital: Podgorica.
- polygraph — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- ponograph — an instrument for graphically recording pain or muscular fatigue.
- porbeagle — a shark of the genus Lamna, especially L. nasus, a large, voracious species of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
- porogamic — pertaining to or designating porogamy
- porterage — the work of a porter or carrier.
- posigrade — of, relating to, or designating motion in the same direction as the current or normal motion
- pragmatic — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
- prayingly — with prayer, prayerfully
- pre-agree — to have the same views, emotions, etc.; harmonize in opinion or feeling (often followed by with): I don't agree with you.
- pre-image — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- preaching — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- preassign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.