8-letter words containing g, r, i, p, n
- piercing — loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
- pig fern — giant bracken
- pig iron — iron tapped from a blast furnace and cast into pigs in preparation for conversion into steel, cast iron, or wrought iron.
- pigeonry — a loft for keeping pigeons in; dovecote; pigeon house
- 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.
- porkling — a young pig; piglet
- powering — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- 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.
- preening — (of animals, especially birds) to trim or dress (feathers, fur, etc.) with the beak or tongue: The peacock preened itself on the lawn.
- prepping — preparatory school.
- pressing — urgent; demanding immediate attention: a pressing need.
- pricking — a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like.
- prilling — Prilling is a process in which a melted substance is sprayed against upward-flowing air in a tower to form solid particles.
- primming — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- primping — to dress or adorn with care.
- printing — the state of being printed.
- prodding — to poke or jab with or as if with something pointed: I prodded him with my elbow.
- proggins — a university proctor
- proofing — evidence sufficient to establish a thing as true, or to produce belief in its truth.
- propping — to support, or prevent from falling, with or as if with a prop (often followed by up): to prop an old fence; to prop up an unpopular government.
- prowling — to rove or go about stealthily, as in search of prey, something to steal, etc.
- pryingly — in a prying manner
- purfling — to finish with an ornamental border.
- pursuing — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- raspings — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- repining — to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
- respring — to rise, leap, move, or act suddenly and swiftly, as by a sudden dart or thrust forward or outward, or being suddenly released from a coiled or constrained position: to spring into the air; a tiger about to spring.
- rsvp'ing — to reply to an invitation: Don't forget to RSVP before Thursday.
- 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.
- sparling — the European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus.
- sparring — a motion of sparring.
- spearing — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- spingarn — Joel Elias, 1875–1939, U.S. literary critic, publisher, and editor.
- sporting — of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport: sport fishing.
- springal — a young man
- springed — a snare for catching small game.
- springer — a person or thing that springs.
- sprucing — trim in dress or appearance; neat; smart; dapper.
- spurring — a U -shaped device that slips over and straps to the heel of a boot and has a blunt, pointed, or roweled projection at the back for use by a mounted rider to urge a horse forward.
- spy ring — a group of spies operating covertly together
- striping — a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing: the stripes of a zebra.
- tapering — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- tramping — the act of tramping.
- trapping — traps, Informal. personal belongings; baggage.
- tripling — threefold; consisting of three parts: a triple knot.
- tripping — light and quick, as a step or pace.