9-letter words containing p, i, a, g, e
- pegmatite — a coarsely crystalline granite or other high-silica rock occurring in veins or dikes.
- 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
- phreaking — phone phreak.
- piagetian — of or relating to the theories developed by Jean Piaget.
- pied shag — a large New Zealand seabird, Phalacrocorax varius, with a white throat and underparts
- pig's ear — ear of a pig
- pigheaded — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
- pigmental — of or relating to a pigment or pigments, or the natural colouring of a person or thing
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- pilferage — the act or practice of pilfering; petty theft.
- pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
- pleadings — the act of a person who pleads.
- plexiglas — material: acrylic glass
- posigrade — of, relating to, or designating motion in the same direction as the current or normal motion
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- pterygial — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
- pupillage — the condition of being a pupil or duration for which one is a pupil
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- putrilage — putrid or putrescent matter.
- ragpicker — a person who picks up rags and other waste material from the streets, refuse heaps, etc., for a livelihood.
- 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.
- reshaping — the act of shaping again or differently
- revamping — to renovate, redo, or revise: We've decided to revamp the entire show.
- sapogenin — a crystalline substance derived from saponin
- scrippage — the contents of a scrip
- serigraph — a print made by the silkscreen process.
- singapore — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- siphonage — the action of a siphon.
- spaghetti — a white, starchy pasta of Italian origin that is made in the form of long strings, boiled, and served with any of a variety of meat, tomato, or other sauces.
- sugar pie — an open pie with a brown sugar filling
- tampering — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
- tephigram — a chart depicting variations in atmospheric conditions relative to altitude