7-letter words containing p, i, a, g
- pillage — to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.
- piragua — Also, pirogue. a canoe made by hollowing out a tree trunk.
- pitanga — Surinam cherry.
- placing — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- plagio- — slanting, inclining, or oblique
- plagium — the crime of kidnapping a child
- planing — Carpentry. any of various woodworking instruments for paring, truing, or smoothing, or for forming moldings, chamfers, rabbets, grooves, etc., by means of an inclined, adjustable blade moved along and against the piece being worked.
- plating — a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.
- playing — the act of taking part in a game or sport
- pogonia — a terrestrial orchid of the genus Pogonia, of North America.
- porangi — crazy; mad
- prating — to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble: They prated on until I was ready to scream.
- praying — uttering prayers (to God or other object of worship)
- primage — a small allowance formerly paid by a shipper to the master and crew of a vessel for the loading and care of the goods: now charged with the freight and retained by the shipowner.
- prisage — the right of the king to take a certain quantity of every cargo of wine imported.
- ramping — a sloping surface connecting two levels; incline.
- rapping — a quick, smart, or light blow: a rap on the knuckles with a ruler.
- rasping — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- reaping — to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- sapling — a young tree.
- sapping — Fortification. a deep, narrow trench constructed so as to form an approach to a besieged place or an enemy's position.
- shaping — the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
- spacing — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- spading — a tool for digging, having an iron blade adapted for pressing into the ground with the foot and a long handle commonly with a grip or crosspiece at the top, and with the blade usually narrower and flatter than that of a shovel.
- sparing — kept in reserve, as for possible use: a spare part.
- taiping — a person who participated in the unsuccessful rebellion (Taiping Rebellion) 1850–64, led by Hung Hsiu-ch'üan (Hong Xiuquan), who attempted to overthrow the Manchu dynasty.
- tamping — to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes: He tamped the tobacco in his pipe.
- tapping — a cylindrical stick, long plug, or stopper for closing an opening through which liquid is drawn, as in a cask; spigot.
- vamping — a seductive woman who uses her sensuality to exploit men.
- warping — to bend or twist out of shape, especially from a straight or flat form, as timbers or flooring.
- yapping — to bark sharply, shrilly, or snappishly; yelp.
- yawping — Present participle of yawp.
- zapping — Present participle of zap.