9-letter words containing p, e, r, g
- pangender — Also, pangendered. noting or relating to a person whose gender identity is not limited to one gender and who may feel like a member of all genders at the same time.
- paper bag — a carrier bag made from paper, for holding purchases, etc
- papergirl — a girl who delivers newspapers to homes.
- paraglide — to engage in paragliding.
- paralegal — an attorney's assistant, not admitted to the practice of law but trained to perform certain legal tasks.
- paralogue — either of a pair of genes derived from the same ancestral gene
- parceling — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- paregoric — a camphorated tincture of opium, containing benzoic acid, anise oil, etc., used chiefly to stop diarrhea in children.
- parentage — derivation or descent from parents or ancestors; birth, origin, or lineage: a man of distinguished parentage.
- parenting — a father or a mother.
- pargasite — a green or bluegreen variety of hornblende.
- 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.
- pargetter — plasterer
- pargyline — a monoamine oxidase inhibitor used to treat hypertension and depression
- parsonage — the residence of a member of the clergy, as provided by the parish or church.
- partridge — any of several Old World gallinaceous game birds of the subfamily Perdicinae, especially Perdix perdix.
- partygoer — a person who enjoys or frequently attends parties and celebrations.
- passenger — a person who is traveling in an automobile, bus, train, airplane, or other conveyance, especially one who is not the driver, pilot, or the like.
- pastorage — pastorate.
- pasturage — pasture.
- patronage — the financial support or business provided to a store, hotel, or the like, by customers, clients, or paying guests.
- pattering — to talk glibly or rapidly, especially with little regard to meaning; chatter.
- pay grade — the grade of a member of the armed services established according to a scale of increasing amounts of base pay and related to but not identical with official rank.
- pea green — a medium or yellowish green.
- pedigreed — having established purebred ancestry: a pedigreed collie.
- pedograph — an imprint on paper of the foot.
- peer gynt — a play (1867) by Henrik Ibsen.
- 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.
- peppering — a pungent condiment obtained from various plants of the genus Piper, especially from the dried berries, used whole or ground, of the tropical climbing shrub P. nigrum.
- peregrine — foreign; alien; coming from abroad.
- pergolesi — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1710–36, Italian composer.
- périgueux — a river in SW France, flowing W to the Gironde estuary. 300 miles (485 km) long.
- perishing — causing destruction, ruin, extreme discomfort, or death: lost in the perishing cold.
- 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
- peshmerga — a member of the armed forces in the autonomous Kurdish-controlled region of NE Iraq
- pestering — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- 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
- petrology — study of rocks
- phalanger — any of numerous arboreal marsupials of the family Phalangeridae, of Australia, having foxlike ears and a long, bushy tail.
- 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.
- phreaking — phone phreak.
- pickering — Edward Charles, 1846–1919, and his brother, William Henry, 1858–1938, U.S. astronomers.
- pig's ear — ear of a pig
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn