9-letter words containing p, l, i, g
- gallipoli — a peninsula in NW European Turkey, extending between the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles. 50 miles (80 km) long.
- gallipots — Plural form of gallipot.
- galliwasp — any of numerous scaly marsh lizards of the genus Diploglossus, inhabiting Central America and the West Indies.
- galloping — at a gallop; running or moving quickly.
- geophilic — soil-loving
- gigaflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one billion floating-point operations per second.
- gillespie — John Birks [burks] /bɜrks/ (Show IPA), ("Dizzy") 1917–93, U.S. jazz trumpeter and composer.
- gippsland — a fertile region of SE Australia, in SE Victoria, extending east along the coast from Melbourne to the New South Wales border. Area: 35 200 sq km (13 600 sq miles)
- glidepath — the course followed by an aircraft or spacecraft when descending for a landing.
- glimpsing — Present participle of glimpse.
- glipizide — A sulfonylurea antidiabetic drug.
- go public — of, relating to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: public funds; a public nuisance.
- godolphin — Sidney, 1st Earl of, 1645–1712, English statesman and financier.
- goldspink — a goldfinch
- gospelise — evangelise
- gospelize — Preach the Gospel to; convert to Christianity.
- grapelice — lice that are destructive to grape plants
- grapelike — Resembling a grape or some aspect of grapes.
- grapeline — grapnel.
- graphical — giving a clear and effective picture; vivid: a graphic account of an earthquake.
- grappelli — Stéphane (ˈstɛfən) 1908–97, French jazz violinist: with Django Reinhardt, he led the Quintet of the Hot Club of France between 1934 and 1939
- grappling — a hook or an iron instrument by which one thing, as a ship, fastens onto another; grapnel.
- grill pan — a wide, shallow metal vessel used to contain food that is being cooked under a grill
- gropingly — In a groping manner; blindly.
- guildship — guild (defs 1, 2).
- gyropilot — automatic pilot.
- hiplength — reaching to or covering the hips, as clothing: a hiplength sweater.
- hippology — the study of horses.
- ic-prolog — Clark & McCabe, Imperial College 1979. Logic language with coroutining.
- imp. gal. — imperial gallon
- impelling — to drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action.
- implating — Present participle of implate.
- imploding — Present participle of implode.
- imploring — to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: They implored him to go.
- impulsing — Present participle of impulse.
- ispaghula — dietary fibre derived from the seed husks of Plantago orata and used as a thickener or stabilizer in the food industry
- kingklips — Plural form of kingklip.
- lagniappe — Chiefly Southern Louisiana and Southeast Texas. a small gift given with a purchase to a customer, by way of compliment or for good measure; bonus.
- lamplight — the light thrown by a lamp.
- lappeting — Present participle of lappet.
- larruping — very; exceedingly: That was a larruping good meal.
- lexigraph — A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
- lexiphage — (graphics) /lek'si-fayj"/ A notorious word chomper, implemented and named by John Doty in late 1972 on and HP calculator and later on ITS. The lexiphage program would draw on a selected victim's bitmapped terminal the words "THE BAG" in ornate letters, followed a pair of jaws biting pieces of it off.
- lie group — a topological group that is a manifold.
- light pen — a handheld light-sensitive device used for pointing at characters or objects on a CRT in order to make or modify drawings or to indicate functions to be performed.
- lightship — a ship anchored in a specific location and displaying or flashing a very bright light for the guidance of ships, as in avoiding dangerous areas. Abbreviation: LS.
- linkoping — a city in S Sweden.
- lip gloss — a cosmetic used to give shine, and often a tint, to the lips.
- logiscope — Software quality analysis tools from Verilog SA, used to evaluate the quality of software, both statically (based on software metrics) and dynamically.
- logogriph — an anagram, or a puzzle involving anagrams.