9-letter words containing p, a, g, e
- personage — a person of distinction or importance.
- pervading — omnipresent; felt everywhere
- peshmerga — a member of the armed forces in the autonomous Kurdish-controlled region of NE Iraq
- petrograd — former name (1914–24) of St. Petersburg (def 2).
- petrogram — a drawing or painting on rock, especially one made by a member of a prehistoric people.
- petrolage — the addition of petrol to the surface of a body of water to get rid of mosquitoes
- phagedena — a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.
- phagocyte — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- phagosome — a vacuole within a phagocyte that contains bacteria or other ingested particles and that becomes fused with a lysosome.
- phalanger — any of numerous arboreal marsupials of the family Phalangeridae, of Australia, having foxlike ears and a long, bushy tail.
- phalanges — a plural of phalanx.
- phenogram — a diagram depicting taxonomic relationships among organisms based on overall similarity of many characteristics without regard to evolutionary history or assumed significance of specific characters: usually generated by computer.
- phone tag — telephone tag.
- phreaking — phone phreak.
- piagetian — of or relating to the theories developed by Jean Piaget.
- pied shag — a large New Zealand seabird, Phalacrocorax varius, with a white throat and underparts
- pig's ear — ear of a pig
- pigheaded — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
- pigmental — of or relating to a pigment or pigments, or the natural colouring of a person or thing
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- pilferage — the act or practice of pilfering; petty theft.
- pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
- plasmagel — the gelatinous outer layer of cytoplasm of the pseudopod of an ameba, beneath the cell membrane.
- plate-dog — a heavy metal plate on which plates, stereos, etc., are locked into position for printing on a rotary press.
- pleadings — the act of a person who pleads.
- plexiglas — material: acrylic glass
- pluggable — a piece of wood or other material used to stop up a hole or aperture, to fill a gap, or to act as a wedge.
- pokelogan — marshy or stagnant water that has branched off from a stream or lake.
- porbeagle — a shark of the genus Lamna, especially L. nasus, a large, voracious species of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
- porterage — the work of a porter or carrier.
- posigrade — of, relating to, or designating motion in the same direction as the current or normal motion
- powfagged — exhausted
- pre-agree — to have the same views, emotions, etc.; harmonize in opinion or feeling (often followed by with): I don't agree with you.
- 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.
- precharge — (storage) The phase in the access cycle of DRAM during which the storage capacitors are charged to the appropriate value.
- pregnable — capable of being taken or won by force: a pregnable fortress.
- pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
- 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.
- presagers — a presentiment or foreboding.
- presignal — to signal in advance
- pretaught — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- price tag — a label or tag that shows the price of the item to which it is attached.
- price-tag — a label or tag that shows the price of the item to which it is attached.
- progamete — a cell that is the precursor of one ovum or many spermatozoa; a spermatocyte or oocyte.
- programed — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- programer — a person who writes code for computer programs.
- programme — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- propagate — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.