9-letter words containing g, r, i, e
- panegyric — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
- papergirl — a girl who delivers newspapers to homes.
- paraglide — to engage in paragliding.
- parceling — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- paregoric — a camphorated tincture of opium, containing benzoic acid, anise oil, etc., used chiefly to stop diarrhea in children.
- parenting — a father or a mother.
- pargasite — a green or bluegreen variety of hornblende.
- pargeting — any of various plasters or roughcasts for covering walls or other surfaces, especially a mortar of lime, hair, and cow dung for lining chimney flues.
- pargyline — a monoamine oxidase inhibitor used to treat hypertension and depression
- partridge — any of several Old World gallinaceous game birds of the subfamily Perdicinae, especially Perdix perdix.
- pattering — to talk glibly or rapidly, especially with little regard to meaning; chatter.
- pedigreed — having established purebred ancestry: a pedigreed collie.
- pellagrin — a person affected with pellagra.
- peppering — a pungent condiment obtained from various plants of the genus Piper, especially from the dried berries, used whole or ground, of the tropical climbing shrub P. nigrum.
- peregrine — foreign; alien; coming from abroad.
- pergolesi — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1710–36, Italian composer.
- périgueux — a river in SW France, flowing W to the Gironde estuary. 300 miles (485 km) long.
- perishing — causing destruction, ruin, extreme discomfort, or death: lost in the perishing cold.
- perpignan — a department in S France. 1600 sq. mi. (4145 sq. km). Capital: Perpignan.
- pervading — omnipresent; felt everywhere
- pestering — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- phreaking — phone phreak.
- pickering — Edward Charles, 1846–1919, and his brother, William Henry, 1858–1938, U.S. astronomers.
- pig's ear — ear of a pig
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- pilferage — the act or practice of pilfering; petty theft.
- pilfering — stealing, petty theft
- pilgrimer — a pilgrim
- pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
- pondering — to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
- poppering — a type of pear tree
- porringer — a low dish or cup, often with a handle, from which soup, porridge, or the like is eaten.
- posigrade — of, relating to, or designating motion in the same direction as the current or normal motion
- pothering — commotion; uproar.
- pottering — putter1 .
- pottinger — an apothecary
- powdering — a thin sprinkling of something on a surface
- 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.
- preceding — that precedes; previous: Refer back to the footnote on the preceding page.
- precising — a concise summary.
- predesign — to design beforehand or in advance
- predigest — to treat (food) by an artificial process analogous to digestion so that, when taken into the body, it is more easily digestible.
- prefigure — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
- preflight — occurring or done before a flight: a preflight briefing of the plane's crew.
- prehiring — relating to the period before hiring
- preluding — a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
- preminger — Otto (Ludwig) 1906–86, U.S. motion-picture actor, director, and producer, born in Austria.
- prepaging — (architecture) (Or "working set model") A technique whereby the operating system in a paging virtual memory multitasking environment loads all pages of a process's working set into memory before the process is restarted. Under demand paging a process accesses its working set by page faults every time it is restarted. Under prepaging the system remembers the pages in each process's working set and loads them into physical memory before restarting the process. Prepaging reduces the page fault rate of reloaded processes and hence generally improves CPU efficiency.