9-letter words containing p, i, a, g
- phalangid — an arachnid that belongs to the family Phalangidae
- phansigar — a person from East India who operates as a thief and a murderer
- photalgia — pain, as in an eye, that is caused by intensity of light.
- phreaking — phone phreak.
- piagetian — of or relating to the theories developed by Jean Piaget.
- pictogram — pictograph.
- pied shag — a large New Zealand seabird, Phalacrocorax varius, with a white throat and underparts
- pig latin — a form of language, used especially by children, that is derived from ordinary English by moving the first consonant or consonant cluster of each word to the end of the word and adding the sound (ā), as in Eakspay igpay atinlay for “Speak Pig Latin.”.
- pig's ear — ear of a pig
- piggyback — on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father.
- 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.
- pilgarlic — a person regarded with mild or pretended contempt or pity.
- pillaging — the act of robbing a town, village, etc of booty or spoils, esp during a war
- pin grass — common storksbill, a weed with fernlike leaves
- pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
- placating — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- plainsong — the unisonous vocal music used in the Christian church from the earliest times.
- plannings — the act or process of making a plan or plans.
- plantling — a young plant
- playgoing — the activity of attending the theatre
- plaything — a thing to play with; toy.
- pleadings — the act of a person who pleads.
- plexiglas — material: acrylic glass
- plicating — Also, plicated. folded like a fan; pleated.
- podgorica — a republic in S Europe since 2006: formerly a constituent republic of Yugoslavia, in the SW part (1918–2006); an independent kingdom 1878–1918. 6333 sq. mi. (13,812 sq. km). Capital: Podgorica.
- poignancy — the state or condition of being poignant.
- polygamic — polygamous.
- porogamic — pertaining to or designating porogamy
- posigrade — of, relating to, or designating motion in the same direction as the current or normal motion
- pragmatic — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
- prayingly — with prayer, prayerfully
- 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.
- progravid — progestational (def 1).
- prorating — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- ptarmigan — any of several grouses of the genus Lagopus, of mountainous and cold northern regions, having feathered feet.
- pterygial — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
- pugnacity — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pulsating — throbbing
- pupillage — the condition of being a pupil or duration for which one is a pupil
- purgation — the act of purging.
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.