8-letter words containing p, o, g, r
- postgres — (database) An active DBMS developed at the University of California at Berkeley by a team led by Michael Stonebraker (1986-1994). Postgres was later taken by Illustra and developed into a commercial product, which in turn was bought by Informix and integrated into their product, Universal Server.
- 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
- prognose — to predict the course of (disease)
- prograde — to (cause to) advance towards the sea by progradation
- programs — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- prograph — (language) A visual dataflow programming language and environment from the Technical University of Halifax. Prograph is an entirely graphical visual programming language, other than for the text of method names, and supports the program development process in a highly-interactive fashion. Operation icons are connected by data links through which information flows. It supports object orientation via class-based data abstraction with single inheritance. Prograph is available for the Macintosh, and soon for Windows and Unix, from TGS Systems.
- progreso — a city in NW Honduras.
- progress — a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
- prolog-2 — An implementation of Edinburgh Prolog by Nick Henfrey, ESL.
- prologue — a preliminary discourse; a preface or introductory part of a discourse, poem, or novel.
- prolonge — a rope having a hook at one end and a toggle at the other, used for various purposes, as to draw a gun carriage.
- promulge — to promulgate.
- proofing — evidence sufficient to establish a thing as true, or to produce belief in its truth.
- prophage — a stable, inherited form of bacteriophage in which the genetic material of the virus is integrated into, replicated, and expressed with the genetic material of the bacterial host.
- 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.
- prorogue — to discontinue a session of (the British Parliament or a similar body).
- protegee — a woman under the patronage, protection, or care of someone interested in her career or welfare.
- protolog — the original description of a species, genus, etc.
- prowling — to rove or go about stealthily, as in search of prey, something to steal, etc.
- pyrology — the study of fire or heat, esp the branch of chemistry concerned with the use and properties of fire
- replough — to plough again
- ridgetop — the summit of a ridge
- rough up — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- saprogen — a plant or animal that can produce decay.
- shopgirl — a salesgirl; female store clerk.
- sporting — of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport: sport fishing.
- spurgeon — Charles Haddon [had-n] /ˈhæd n/ (Show IPA), 1834–92, English Baptist preacher.
- subgroup — a subordinate group; a division of a group.
- superego — the part of the personality representing the conscience, formed in early life by internalization of the standards of parents and other models of behavior.
- top gear — the highest gear in a motor vehicle
- tragopan — any of several Asian pheasants of the genus Tragopan, having two fleshy, erectile horns on the head and wattles on the throat.
- trooping — an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
- upgrowth — the process of growing up; development: the upgrowth of nuclear science.
- vaporing — that gives forth vapor.