9-letter words containing p, e, r, g
- expurgate — Remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account).
- figpecker — A bird, the Orphean warbler, Sylvia hortensis.
- figure up — a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
- fingertip — the tip or end of a finger.
- fireplugs — Plural form of fireplug.
- fox grape — a vine, Vitis labrusca, chiefly of the northeastern U.S., from which numerous cultivated grape varieties have been developed.
- frontpage — Alternative spelling of front page.
- galeproof — Capable of resisting a gale.
- gallopers — Plural form of galloper.
- galumpher — a person or animal that leaps or moves heavily or clumsily
- game park — a game preserve, especially in Africa.
- gang rape — If a woman is gang raped, several men force her to have sex with them.
- gang-rape — to force to have sexual intercourse with several persons.
- gas poker — a long tubular gas burner used to kindle a fire
- gaspergou — freshwater drum.
- gather up — collect
- gay power — the organized political influence exerted by homosexuals as a group, especially to ensure equal rights in employment, housing, etc.
- gear pump — lobular pump.
- geocarpic — pertaining to geocarpy
- geography — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- geosphere — the solid portion of the earth (distinguished from atmosphere, hydrosphere).
- geotropic — of, relating to, or exhibiting geotropism.
- germplasm — Alternative spelling of germ plasm.
- germproof — not vulnerable to the action or penetration of germs.
- ginger up — a reedlike plant, Zingiber officinale, native to the East Indies but now cultivated in most tropical countries, having a pungent, spicy rhizome used in cookery and medicine. Compare ginger family.
- gjellerup — Karl [kahrl] /kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1857–1919, Danish novelist: Nobel Prize 1917.
- glory-pea — either of two trailing plants, Clianthus formosus or C. puniceus, of Australia and New Zealand, having showy red flowers.
- godparent — a godfather or godmother.
- gonophore — an asexually produced bud in hydrozoans that gives rise to the equivalent of a medusa.
- gophering — any of several ground squirrels of the genus Citellus, of the prairie regions of North America.
- gospelers — Plural form of gospeler.
- gospeller — a person who reads or sings the Gospel.
- gosperism — /gos'p*r-izm/ A hack, invention, or saying due to arch-hacker R. William (Bill) Gosper. This notion merits its own term because there are so many of them. Many of the entries in HAKMEM are Gosperisms. See also life.
- gossipers — Plural form of gossiper.
- gossipper — a person who gossips
- grab rope — a rope supported to afford a hold for a person walking up a gangplank, working aloft, etc.
- grace cup — a cup, as of wine, passed around at the end of the meal for the final health or toast.
- grand pre — a village in central Nova Scotia, on Minas Basin: locale of Longfellow's Evangeline.
- grape ivy — a hairy vine, Cissus rhombifolia, native to tropical America, having glossy trifoliate leaves and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- grapelice — lice that are destructive to grape plants
- grapelike — Resembling a grape or some aspect of grapes.
- grapeline — grapnel.
- grapeseed — The seed of the grape.
- grapeshot — a cluster of small cast-iron balls formerly used as a charge for a cannon.
- grapetree — any of various plants of the genus Coccoloba, esp C. uvifera, a shrubby plant resembling a grapevine
- grapevine — a town in N Texas.
- graphemes — Plural form of grapheme.
- graphemic — Of or pertaining to graphemes or their study.
- graphited — Modified by the addition of graphite.
- grapiness — the quality of tasting like a grape