9-letter words containing p, e, g, a, n
- 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.
- peg pants — close-fitting trousers made of stretch fabric
- pelasgian — of or relating to the Pelasgians.
- pellagrin — a person affected with pellagra.
- pendragon — either of two kings of ancient Britain. Compare Arthur (def 2), Uther.
- pentagram — a five-pointed, star-shaped figure made by extending the sides of a regular pentagon until they meet, used as an occult symbol by the Pythagoreans and later philosophers, by magicians, etc.
- pentalogy — a combination of five closely related things, esp (in medicine) closely connected symptoms or (in art) related works of art
- pentangle — pentagram.
- perpignan — a department in S France. 1600 sq. mi. (4145 sq. km). Capital: Perpignan.
- personage — a person of distinction or importance.
- pervading — omnipresent; felt everywhere
- phagedena — a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.
- 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.
- pigmental — of or relating to a pigment or pigments, or the natural colouring of a person or thing
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- pleadings — the act of a person who pleads.
- pokelogan — marshy or stagnant water that has branched off from a stream or lake.
- preaching — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- preassign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- 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.
- presignal — to signal in advance
- recapping — to recondition (a worn automobile tire) by cementing on a strip of prepared rubber and vulcanizing by subjecting to heat and pressure in a mold.
- repairing — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
- repeating — repeating or saying again
- replacing — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- repugnant — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- reshaping — the act of shaping again or differently
- revamping — to renovate, redo, or revise: We've decided to revamp the entire show.
- sagapenum — a resin formerly used as a drug
- sap green — a green pigment obtained from the juice of buckthorn berries, used chiefly in dyes for wood, paper, and textiles.
- sapogenin — a crystalline substance derived from saponin
- singapore — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- siphonage — the action of a siphon.
- spear gun — a device for shooting a barbed missile under water, usually by means of gas under pressure, a strong rubber band, or a powerful spring.
- spongebag — A spongebag is a small bag in which you keep things such as soap and a toothbrush when you are travelling.
- tampering — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
- tangle up — become knotted or intertwined
- unplagued — an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.