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9-letter words containing g, r, o, a, t

  • pictogram — pictograph.
  • pignorate — to pledge or pawn
  • porterage — the work of a porter or carrier.
  • progamete — a cell that is the precursor of one ovum or many spermatozoa; a spermatocyte or oocyte.
  • prognathy — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • propagate — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • prorating — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
  • purgation — the act of purging.
  • purgatory — (in the belief of Roman Catholics and others) a condition or place in which the souls of those dying penitent are purified from venial sins, or undergo the temporal punishment that, after the guilt of mortal sin has been remitted, still remains to be endured by the sinner.
  • rarotonga — one of the Cook Islands, in the S Pacific, 26 sq. mi. (67 sq. km).
  • rationing — a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage: a daily ration of meat and bread.
  • ravigotte — a cold French sauce or dressing for salad containing mixed chopped herbs such as tarragon and chives
  • recatalog — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
  • reggaeton — a type of Puerto Rican popular music that combines reggae rhythms with hip-hop influences and includes rapping in Spanish
  • regulator — a person or thing that regulates.
  • reportage — the act or technique of reporting news.
  • riot gear — Riot gear is the special clothing and equipment worn by police officers or soldiers when they have to deal with a riot.
  • rogations — solemn supplications, esp in a form of ceremony prescribed by the Church
  • rotograph — a photograph, esp of a manuscript or book, which is printed white on black
  • roughcast — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
  • sgraffito — a technique of ornamentation in which a surface layer of paint, plaster, slip, etc., is incised to reveal a ground of contrasting color.
  • sigmatron — a machine for generating X-rays
  • signatory — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
  • songcraft — the art of songwriting
  • stegosaur — a plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Stegosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a heavy, bony armor and a row of bony plates along its back, and growing to a length of 20 to 40 feet (6–12 meters).
  • strongarm — (processor)   A collaborative project between Digital Equipment Corporation and Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. (ARM) announced on 1995-02-06 licensing the ARM RISC architecture to Digital Semiconductor for the development of high-performance, low power microprocessors. The StrongARM family of 32-bit RISC products developed under the agreement are faster versions of the existing ARM processors with a somewhat different instruction set. They are targetted at applications such as next-generation personal digital assistants with improved user interfaces and communications; interactive television and set-top products; video games and multimedia edutainment systems with realistic imaging, motion and sound; and digital imaging, including low cost digital image capture and photo-quality scanning and printing. The StrongARM family has limited software compatibility with the ARM6, ARM7 and ARM8 families due to its separate caches for data and instructions which causes self-modifying code to fail. The SA-110 is the first member of the family.
  • strongman — a person who performs remarkable feats of strength, as in a circus.
  • subrogate — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
  • sugarcoat — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
  • surrogate — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
  • tachogram — the record produced by the action of a tachometer.
  • tailoring — a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments.
  • targa top — a removable hard roof on a motor car
  • tarragona — a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
  • teratogen — a drug or other substance capable of interfering with the development of a fetus, causing birth defects.
  • tetralogy — a series of four related dramas, operas, novels, etc.
  • togavirus — a virus belonging to the Togaviridae family and which usually affects birds and mammals rather than humans
  • tomograph — a machine for making an x-ray of a selected plane of the body.
  • topograph — a type of x-ray photograph of land surfaces
  • trialogue — a discussion or conversation in which three persons or groups participate.
  • trigamous — of or relating to trigamy or a trigamist.
  • trisagion — an ancient hymn
  • troy game — a solemn ritual performed at irregular intervals by the ancient Romans to signalize their alleged descent from the Trojans: notable for the interweaving labyrinthine maneuvers executed by youths on horseback.
  • typograph — a machine for creating indentations of characters upon a sheet of metal from which prints can be made
  • water dog — a dog trained to hunt in water
  • water hog — a person who uses water selfishly or irresponsibly, esp during a water shortage
  • waterdogs — Plural form of waterdog.
  • xenograft — a graft obtained from a member of one species and transplanted to a member of another species.
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