9-letter words containing p, a, n, g, i
- panlogism — the doctrine that the universe is a realization or act of the logos.
- pantingly — eagerly
- parceling — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parenting — a father or a mother.
- pargeting — any of various plasters or roughcasts for covering walls or other surfaces, especially a mortar of lime, hair, and cow dung for lining chimney flues.
- pargyline — a monoamine oxidase inhibitor used to treat hypertension and depression
- parodying — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- parroting — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
- partaking — to take or have a part or share along with others; participate (usually followed by in): He won't partake in the victory celebration.
- passingly — in passing; in a passing manner
- pastoring — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pasturing — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- patagonia — a tableland region of southern Argentina.
- pattering — to talk glibly or rapidly, especially with little regard to meaning; chatter.
- pausingly — with a pause or pauses
- pedalling — a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
- pelasgian — of or relating to the Pelasgians.
- pellagrin — a person affected with pellagra.
- perpignan — a department in S France. 1600 sq. mi. (4145 sq. km). Capital: Perpignan.
- pervading — omnipresent; felt everywhere
- phalangid — an arachnid that belongs to the family Phalangidae
- phansigar — a person from East India who operates as a thief and a murderer
- phreaking — phone phreak.
- piagetian — of or relating to the theories developed by Jean Piaget.
- pig latin — a form of language, used especially by children, that is derived from ordinary English by moving the first consonant or consonant cluster of each word to the end of the word and adding the sound (ā), as in Eakspay igpay atinlay for “Speak Pig Latin.”.
- pigmental — of or relating to a pigment or pigments, or the natural colouring of a person or thing
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- pillaging — the act of robbing a town, village, etc of booty or spoils, esp during a war
- pin grass — common storksbill, a weed with fernlike leaves
- placating — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- plainsong — the unisonous vocal music used in the Christian church from the earliest times.
- plannings — the act or process of making a plan or plans.
- plantling — a young plant
- playgoing — the activity of attending the theatre
- plaything — a thing to play with; toy.
- pleadings — the act of a person who pleads.
- plicating — Also, plicated. folded like a fan; pleated.
- poignancy — the state or condition of being poignant.
- prayingly — with prayer, prayerfully
- preaching — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- preassign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- 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.
- presignal — to signal in advance
- prorating — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- ptarmigan — any of several grouses of the genus Lagopus, of mountainous and cold northern regions, having feathered feet.
- pugnacity — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pulsating — throbbing
- purgation — the act of purging.
- pygmalion — Classical Mythology. a sculptor and king of Cyprus who carved an ivory statue of a maiden and fell in love with it. It was brought to life, in response to his prayer, by Aphrodite.
- raspingly — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.