9-letter words containing p, e, r, g
- pilferage — the act or practice of pilfering; petty theft.
- pilfering — stealing, petty theft
- pilgrimer — a pilgrim
- pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
- pondering — to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
- poppering — a type of pear tree
- porbeagle — a shark of the genus Lamna, especially L. nasus, a large, voracious species of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
- porringer — a low dish or cup, often with a handle, from which soup, porridge, or the like is eaten.
- 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
- pothering — commotion; uproar.
- pottering — putter1 .
- pottinger — an apothecary
- powdering — a thin sprinkling of something on a surface
- 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.
- prebudget — produced, occurring or implemented prior to the release of the government's Budget
- preceding — that precedes; previous: Refer back to the footnote on the preceding page.
- precharge — (storage) The phase in the access cycle of DRAM during which the storage capacitors are charged to the appropriate value.
- precising — a concise summary.
- predesign — to design beforehand or in advance
- predigest — to treat (food) by an artificial process analogous to digestion so that, when taken into the body, it is more easily digestible.
- prefigure — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
- preflight — occurring or done before a flight: a preflight briefing of the plane's crew.
- pregnable — capable of being taken or won by force: a pregnable fortress.
- pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
- pregrowth — the period before something begins to grow
- prehiring — relating to the period before hiring
- preluding — a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
- premerger — of the period prior to a merger
- preminger — Otto (Ludwig) 1906–86, U.S. motion-picture actor, director, and producer, born in Austria.
- 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.
- presiding — to occupy the place of authority or control, as in an assembly or meeting; act as president or chairperson.
- presignal — to signal in advance
- pressburg — German name of Bratislava.
- prestiges — reputation or influence arising from success, achievement, rank, or other favorable attributes.
- presuming — presumptuous.
- pretaught — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- prewiring — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- 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.
- prigogine — Ilya [il-yuh,, eel-;; Russian ee-lyah] /ˈɪl yə,, ˈil-;; Russian iˈlyɑ/ (Show IPA), 1917–2003, Belgian chemist, born in Russia: Nobel prize 1977.
- privilege — a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most: the privileges of the very rich.
- progamete — a cell that is the precursor of one ovum or many spermatozoa; a spermatocyte or oocyte.
- progestin — any substance having progesteronelike activity.
- prognoses — Medicine/Medical. a forecasting of the probable course and outcome of a disease, especially of the chances of recovery.
- programed — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.