8-letter words containing p, l, i, g
- grumpily — surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
- gymslips — Plural form of gymslip.
- helpings — Plural form of helping.
- hopingly — in a hopeful manner
- hypalgia — reduced sensitivity to pain
- impaling — Present participle of impale.
- impledge — to pledge
- implunge — to submerge
- implying — to indicate or suggest without being explicitly stated: His words implied a lack of faith.
- kingklip — The common name of a popular South African eating fish; Genypterus capensis .
- lapwings — Plural form of lapwing.
- lard pig — a large type of pig used principally for lard
- light up — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- lipgloss — Alternative spelling of lip gloss.
- lipogram — a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters.
- liu pang — 247–195 b.c, Chinese emperor: founder of the Han dynasty 202 b.c.
- log chip — the wooden chip of a chip log, for holding the end of the log line.
- log ship — log chip.
- long pig — (among the Maori and Polynesian peoples) human flesh as food for cannibals.
- longship — a medieval ship used in northern Europe especially by the Norse, having a long, narrow, open hull, a single square sail, and a large number of oars, which provided most of the propulsion.
- malpighi — Marcello [mahr-chel-law] /mɑrˈtʃɛl lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1628–94, Italian anatomist.
- mopingly — in a moping or dejected manner
- palilogy — the technique of repeating a word or phrase for emphasis.
- paneling — a distinct portion, section, or division of a wall, wainscot, ceiling, door, shutter, fence, etc., especially of any surface sunk below or raised above the general level or enclosed by a frame or border.
- pangolin — any mammal of the order Pholidota, of Africa and tropical Asia, having a covering of broad, overlapping, horny scales and feeding on ants and termites.
- patagial — of or relating to a patagium
- pearling — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pebbling — a small, rounded stone, especially one worn smooth by the action of water.
- pedaling — a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
- peddling — trifling; paltry; piddling.
- peelings — Peelings are pieces of skin removed from vegetables and fruit.
- pelagial — the hair, fur, wool, or other soft covering of a mammal.
- pelagian — a follower of Pelagius, who denied original sin and believed in freedom of the will.
- pelagius — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- pelasgic — Pelasgian.
- penlight — a flashlight similar in size and shape to a fountain pen.
- peopling — persons indefinitely or collectively; persons in general: to find it easy to talk to people; What will people think?
- philabeg — filibeg.
- philibeg — the kilt or pleated skirt worn by Scottish Highlanders.
- pickling — a cucumber that has been preserved in brine, vinegar, or the like.
- piddling — amounting to very little; trifling; negligible: a piddling sum of money.
- piffling — of little worth; trifling; piddling: piffling efforts.
- pig lead — lead molded in pigs.
- pignolia — a pine nut, the edible seed of the nut pine
- pignolis — pine nut (def 1).
- pigswill — slops for feeding swine
- pilgrims — a person who journeys, especially a long distance, to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion: pilgrims to the Holy Land.
- pill bug — any of various small terrestrial isopods, especially of the genera Armadillidium and Oniscus, which can roll themselves up into a spherical shape.
- pillaged — to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.
- pillager — to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.