10-letter words containing p, i, g, e, r
- geotropism — oriented growth with respect to the force of gravity.
- get a grip — regain self-control
- gingersnap — a small, brittle cookie flavored with ginger and molasses.
- girl power — an assertiveness and self-confidence shown by girls and young women
- go private — to restore private ownership of a corporation by buying back publicly held stock
- gossiprede — (obsolete) The relationship between a person and his sponsors.
- grapefruit — a large, roundish, yellow-skinned, edible citrus fruit having a juicy, acid pulp.
- grapevines — Plural form of grapevine.
- graphemics — the study of writing systems and of their relation to speech.
- graphitize — to convert into graphite.
- graptolite — any colonial animal of the extinct class Graptolithina, most common in the Ordovician and Silurian Periods, thought to be related to the pterobranchs.
- gravel pit — an open cast working for the extraction of gravel
- greenstrip — any vegetation that does not burn easily, left uncut or planted along a roadway or waterway, usually to prevent wildfires.
- gripe site — a website through which people can express their contempt for a particular person, organization, pop group, etc
- grumpiness — The state, or act, of being grumpy.
- guide rope — a rope fastened, usually at an angle, to a hoisting or towing line, to guide the object being moved.
- headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
- heliograph — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
- herpangina — an infectious disease, especially of children, characterized by a sudden occurrence of fever, loss of appetite, and throat ulcerations, caused by a Coxsackie virus.
- hieroglyph — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
- hierograph — sacred writing or characters
- high-power — (of a rifle) of a sufficiently high muzzle velocity and using a heavy enough bullet to kill large game.
- hiphuggers — (of a garment) having a close-fitting waistline placed at the hip rather than at the natural waist: hiphugger jeans.
- hyperalgia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
- hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
- hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- hyperlight — Faster than light speed.
- ideographs — an ideogram.
- ideography — the use of ideograms.
- imperiling — Present participle of imperil.
- impowering — Present participle of impower.
- impregnant — (obsolete) Not pregnant; unfertilized or infertile.
- impregnate — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- impressing — to press or force into public service, as sailors.
- interglyph — a surface between two grooves, as on a triglyph.
- intergroup — taking place or being between groups: intergroup relationships.
- jeoparding — Present participle of jeopard.
- kriegspiel — (sometimes initial capital letter) a game using small figures and counters that represent troops, ships, etc., played on a map or miniature battlefield, developed for teaching military tactics to officers.
- lexigraphy — (uncountable) The representation of words in writing.
- lipreading — the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- longprimer — in printing, a size of type intermediate between small pica and bourgeois
- magstripes — Plural form of magstripe.
- microphage — a small phagocytic cell in blood or lymph, especially a polymorphonuclear leukocyte.
- mimeograph — a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.
- negrophile — a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
- nephralgia — kidney pain.
- operagoing — Attending opera performances.
- oppressing — to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.
- orange-tip — a European butterfly, Anthocharis cardamines, having whitish wings with orange-tipped forewings: family Pieridae
- organ pipe — one of the pipes of a pipe organ.