11-letter words containing p, i, g, r
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- proselyting — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- prospecting — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
- prostrating — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- protagonism — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- protagonist — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- prototyping — The creation of a model and the simulation of all aspects of a product. CASE tools support different degrees of prototyping. Some offer the end-user the ability to review all aspects of the user interface and the structure of documentation and reports before code is generated.
- proxy fight — a contest between factions of stockholders in a company, in which each group attempts to gain control by soliciting signed proxy statements for sufficient votes.
- pruriginous — of, relating to, or causing prurigo.
- psaligraphy — the art of cutting out silhouettes
- pteridology — the branch of botany dealing with ferns and related plants, as the horsetails and club mosses.
- purgatorial — removing or purging sin; expiatory: purgatorial rites.
- purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
- purging nut — physic nut.
- pyrargyrite — a blackish mineral, silver antimony sulfide, AgSbS 3 , showing, when transparent, a deep ruby-red color by transmitted light; ruby silver: an ore of silver.
- pyrogenetic — heat-producing
- pyrognostic — relating to heated minerals
- quadrupling — Present participle of quadruple.
- radiography — the production of radiographs.
- rap jumping — the sport of descending high buildings, attached to ropes and a pulley
- re-shipping — to ship again.
- recarpeting — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- renographic — of or pertaining to renography, using or produced by a renogram
- repaglinide — an oral drug used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, often in combination with metformin.
- repellingly — in a way that repels, repellently
- repentingly — in a repenting fashion; repentantly
- reprovingly — to criticize or correct, especially gently: to reprove a pupil for making a mistake.
- riding crop — crop (def 7).
- riding lamp — a light on a boat or ship showing that it is at anchor
- ring-porous — having annual rings marked by a conspicuous band of large pores in wood formed in spring.
- rip-roaring — boisterously wild and exciting; riotous: Have a rip-roaring good time.
- ripplegrass — English plantain.
- rising damp — moisture problem affecting walls
- rock pigeon — rock dove.
- rolling pin — a cylinder of wood or other material, usually with a short handle at each end, for rolling out dough.
- ropedancing — the act of dancing on a rope
- rumgumption — good sense
- saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
- scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
- script girl — a female secretarial assistant to the director of a motion picture.
- sculpturing — the act of sculpturing or carving
- seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
- sempstering — the profession of being a tailor
- septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
- serigrapher — someone who engages in serigraphy
- serigraphic — of or pertaining to serigraphy
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- shepherding — a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.
- ship-rigged — (of a sailing vessel) rigged as a ship; full-rigged.
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium