10-letter words containing i, g, p, l
- proctalgia — neural pain in the rectum or anus
- prodigally — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- proglottid — one of the segments or joints of a tapeworm, containing complete reproductive systems, usually both male and female.
- proglottis — one of the segments or joints of a tapeworm, containing complete reproductive systems, usually both male and female.
- prolog-iii — A. Colmerauer, U Aix-Marseille, ca 1984. Marseille Prolog, with unification replaced by constraint resolution. [deferred goals too?] (Not to be confused with Prolog 3, a commercial product?) Version 1.2 for MS-DOS.
- prologuize — to compose or deliver a prologue.
- propelling — to drive, or cause to move, forward or onward: to propel a boat by rowing.
- prowlingly — in the manner of a prowl
- publishing — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- pugilistic — a person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional.
- pummelling — the action of striking repeatedly with or as with the fists
- pursuingly — in a pursuing manner
- puzzlingly — in a puzzling manner
- rappelling — (in mountaineering) the act or method of moving down a steep incline or past an overhang by means of a double rope secured above and placed around the body, usually under the left thigh and over the right shoulder, and paid out gradually in the descent.
- repiningly — in a repining manner, discontentedly
- replanning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- replanting — to plant again.
- replotting — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- respelling — to spell again or anew.
- salpingian — a trumpet-shaped tube, as a Fallopian or Eustachian tube.
- scalloping — any of the bivalve mollusks of the genus Argopecten (Pecten) and related genera that swim by rapidly clapping the fluted shell valves together.
- skimpingly — in a manner marked by skimpiness
- skippingly — in the manner of a skip
- slip a cog — (not in technical use) a gear tooth, formerly especially one of hardwood or metal, fitted into a slot in a gearwheel of less durable material.
- slip gauge — a very accurately ground block of hardened steel used to measure a gap with close accuracy: used mainly in tool-making and inspection
- snappingly — involving a snap
- soil group — one of a number of soil classes having the same kinds of horizons in the same sequence and under similar moisture and temperature regimes.
- spankingly — in a spanking manner
- speakingly — in an eloquent manner
- spellingly — one letter at a time
- spelunking — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
- spiderling — the young of a spider.
- spindleage — total number or capacity of spindles in a mill, area, etc.
- spiralling — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- spittlebug — the nymph of the froghopper, which surrounds itself with a frothy mass.
- split page — (in a newspaper) a page replacing one of an earlier edition and containing chiefly the same material in altered form.
- split ring — a steel ring having two helical turns, often used as a key ring
- split-wing — of or relating to wings (of an artificial fly) that are dressed cocked up and separated into a V shape
- sportingly — engaging in, disposed to, or interested in open-air or athletic sports: a rugged, sporting man.
- sprightful — sprightly.
- springdale — a city in NW Arkansas.
- springerle — anise-flavored cookies, orig. of Germany
- springhalt — stringhalt.
- springless — having no springs: a springless bed.
- springlike — 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.
- springlock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- springtail — any of numerous minute, wingless primitive insects of the order Collembola, most possessing a special abdominal appendage for jumping that allows for the nearly perpetual springing pattern characteristic of the group.
- sprinkling — the act or an instance of sprinkling.