8-letter words containing p, i, g, o
- plodding — to walk heavily or move laboriously; trudge: to plod under the weight of a burden.
- plonking — foolish, clumsy, or inept
- plopping — to make a sound like that of something falling or dropping into water: A frog plopped into the pond.
- plotting — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
- podalgia — pain in the foot.
- poignant — keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret.
- pointing — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- polglish — informal Polish containing a high proportion of words of English origin
- policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- polignac — Prince de, title of Auguste Jules Armand Marie de Polignac. 1780–1847, French statesman; prime minister (1829–30) to Charles X: his extreme royalist and ultramontane policies provoked the 1830 revolution and cost Charles X the throne
- polliwog — a tadpole.
- popeling — a deputy or supporter of the Pope
- pork pig — a pig, typically of a lean type, bred and used principally for pork
- porkling — a young pig; piglet
- porridge — a food made of oatmeal, or some other meal or cereal, boiled to a thick consistency in water or milk.
- porridgy — resembling the taste, texture, or appearance of porridge
- posingly — in a posing manner
- positing — to place, put, or set.
- pouching — a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
- pounding — Archaic. to shut up in or as in a pound; impound; imprison.
- powering — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- prodding — to poke or jab with or as if with something pointed: I prodded him with my elbow.
- prodigal — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- progeria — a rare congenital abnormality characterized by premature and rapid aging, the affected individual appearing in childhood as an aged person and having a shortened life span.
- proggins — a university proctor
- proofing — evidence sufficient to establish a thing as true, or to produce belief in its truth.
- propping — to support, or prevent from falling, with or as if with a prop (often followed by up): to prop an old fence; to prop up an unpopular government.
- prowling — to rove or go about stealthily, as in search of prey, something to steal, etc.
- pyogenic — producing or generating pus.
- pyonings — the work of military sappers, such as the digging of trenches
- ridgetop — the summit of a ridge
- scooping — a ladle or ladlelike utensil, especially a small, deep-sided shovel with a short, horizontal handle, for taking up flour, sugar, etc.
- shopgirl — a salesgirl; female store clerk.
- shopping — a retail store, especially a small one.
- signpost — a post bearing a sign that gives information or guidance.
- slopping — to spill or splash (liquid).
- snooping — to prowl or pry; go about in a sneaking, prying way.
- solpugid — sun spider.
- spoilage — the act of spoiling or the state of being spoiled.
- sponging — any aquatic, chiefly marine animal of the phylum Porifera, having a porous structure and usually a horny, siliceous or calcareous internal skeleton or framework, occurring in large, sessile colonies.
- spongoid — resembling a sponge
- spoofing — a mocking imitation of someone or something, usually light and good-humored; lampoon or parody: The show was a spoof of college life.
- spooling — any cylindrical piece or device on which something is wound.
- spooning — a utensil for use in eating, stirring, measuring, ladling, etc., consisting of a small, shallow bowl with a handle.
- sporting — of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport: sport fishing.
- spotting — the hobby of watching for and noting particular examples of something, such as birds, numbers or types of trains, buses, etc
- spousing — either member of a married pair in relation to the other; one's husband or wife.
- spouting — a pipe, tube, or liplike projection through or by which a liquid is discharged, poured, or conveyed.
- stooping — to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.