10-letter words containing g, r, o, s
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- overstring — Music. to arrange the strings of (a piano) so that the bass strings cross over the treble.
- overstrong — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- overstrung — overly tense or sensitive; strained; on edge: Their nerves were badly overstrung.
- paraglossa — the outer lobe of the lingua or labium of certain insects
- paragnosis — knowledge obtained by supernatural means
- paralogism — argument violating principles of valid reasoning.
- pellagrous — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
- pergelisol — permafrost.
- perigynous — situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.
- piatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- polarising — to cause polarization in.
- pop singer — sb who sings popular music
- porpoising — any of several small, gregarious cetaceans of the genus Phocoena, usually blackish above and paler beneath, and having a blunt, rounded snout, especially the common porpoise, P. phocoena, of both the North Atlantic and Pacific.
- portuguese — of, relating to, or characteristic of Portugal, its inhabitants, or their language.
- postgresql — (database) /'post-gres-kyu-el/ An enhancement of the POSTGRES database system. PostgreSQL is an advanced relational database management system with some object oriented approaches. PostgreSQL is developed and distributed as free software, and while retaining its freedom it remains technically and featurewise a worthy competitor to even the most advanced commercial alternatives. It was also one of the first databases to offer MVCC as opposed to row-level locking or table locking, thereby greatly improving multi-user performance. PostgreSQL implements an extended subset of ANSI SQL and runs on many platforms. It also has interfaces to many different programming languages and database protocols, like ODBC and JDBC.
- prestorage — occurring before storage
- prick song — written music.
- pro-busing — favoring or advocating legislation that requires the busing of students to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school.
- processing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- prodigious — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- professing — to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to: He professed extreme regret.
- proglottis — one of the segments or joints of a tapeworm, containing complete reproductive systems, usually both male and female.
- prognostic — of or relating to prognosis.
- progressed — a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
- progresses — a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
- propagates — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- prosecting — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- prospering — to be successful or fortunate, especially in financial respects; thrive; flourish.
- protagoras — c480–c421 b.c, Greek Sophist philosopher.
- psychogram — a message believed to be written by a spirit or authored by psychical means
- pupigerous — (of an insect) having a pupa
- pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- pyrogenous — pyrogenic (def 2).
- pythagoras — c582–c500 b.c, Greek philosopher, mathematician, and religious reformer.
- raised bog — a bog of convex shape produced by growth of sphagnum and other bog plants in acid conditions and the subsequent build up of acid peat
- rampageous — violent; unruly; boisterous.
- recognised — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recognizes — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- red grouse — a grouse, Lagopus lagopus scoticus, of the British Isles, a subspecies of willow ptarmigan lacking white winter plumage.
- regression — the act of going back to a previous place or state; return or reversion.
- repoussage — the art or process of working in repoussé.
- rescue dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers
- resonating — to resound.
- resounding — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- resourcing — the provision of resources
- retrogress — to go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition: to retrogress to infantilism.
- rigorously — characterized by rigor; rigidly severe or harsh, as people, rules, or discipline: rigorous laws.
- ring shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- ring stone — a voussoir appearing on a face of an arch.