9-letter words containing p, o, g, r
- holograph — Also, holographic [hol-uh-graf-ik, hoh-luh-] /ˌhɒl əˈgræf ɪk, ˌhoʊ lə-/ (Show IPA), holographical. wholly written by the person in whose name it appears: a holograph letter.
- homograph — a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not, as bear 1 “to carry; support” and bear 2 “animal” or lead 1 “to conduct” and lead 2 “metal.”.
- ic-prolog — Clark & McCabe, Imperial College 1979. Logic language with coroutining.
- ideograph — an ideogram.
- idiograph — a mark or signature characteristic of a particular person, organization, etc.; trademark. Compare logotype (def 2).
- imploring — to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: They implored him to go.
- importing — Present participle of import.
- improving — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- inpouring — The action of pouring something in; an infusion.
- kingsport — a city in NE Tennessee.
- kymograph — an instrument for measuring and graphically recording variations in fluid pressure, as those of the human pulse.
- lager top — a pint or half-pint of lager with a dash of lemonade
- lagomorph — any member of the order Lagomorpha, comprising the hares, rabbits, and pikas, resembling the rodents but having two pairs of upper incisors.
- leapfrogs — Plural form of leapfrog.
- lie group — a topological group that is a manifold.
- lm-prolog — Lisp Machine Prolog. A Prolog interpreter in Zetalisp for the Lisp Machine developed by Ken Kahn and Mats Carlsson in 1983.
- logograph — a conventional, abbreviated symbol for a frequently recurring word or phrase, as the symbol & for the word and. Also called logograph [law-guh-graf, -grahf, log-uh-] /ˈlɔ gəˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf, ˈlɒg ə-/ (Show IPA).
- logogriph — an anagram, or a puzzle involving anagrams.
- longspurs — Plural form of longspur.
- megaspore — the larger of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and a few fern allies, developing into a female gametophyte. Compare microspore.
- monograph — a treatise on a particular subject, as a biographical study or study of the works of one artist.
- morphogen — A chemical agent able to cause or determine morphogenesis.
- mu-prolog — (language) Prolog with "wait" declarations for coroutining, developed by L. Naish of the Univeristy of Melbourne in 1982.
- myographs — Plural form of myograph.
- negrophil — a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
- negropont — Euboea.
- nephogram — a photograph of a cloud
- newsgroup — a place on a computer network, especially within Usenet, that maintains an online discussion group on a specific topic: newsgroups for movies.
- nomograph — a graph, usually containing three parallel scales graduated for different variables so that when a straight line connects values of any two, the related value may be read directly from the third at the point intersected by the line.
- nu-prolog — L. Naish, U Melbourne. A Prolog with 'when' declarations, the successor to MU-Prolog. Type-checked. "NU-Prolog Reference Manual - Version 1.3", J.A. Thom et al eds, TR 86/10, U Melbourne (1988). Available (but not free). (See PNU-Prolog). E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- offspring — children or young of a particular parent or progenitor.
- oleograph — a chromolithograph printed in oil colors on canvas or cloth.
- omnigraph — a device for converting Morse Code signals that are punched on a tape into audio signals, used in the training of telegraph operators.
- ondograph — an instrument for graphically recording oscillatory variations, as in alternating currents.
- operagoer — a person who attends opera performances.
- operating — used or engaged in performing operations: an operating surgeon.
- oppugners — Plural form of oppugner.
- orography — the branch of physical geography dealing with mountains.
- orphanage — an institution for the housing and care of orphans.
- orphaning — Present participle of orphan.
- orpington — one of a breed of large, white-skinned chickens.
- out-group — people outside one's own group, especially as considered to be inferior or alien; a group perceived as other than one's own.
- outspring — to spring out
- paragould — a city in NE Arkansas.
- paralogia — incoherent speech or thinking
- paralogue — either of a pair of genes derived from the same ancestral gene
- paregoric — a camphorated tincture of opium, containing benzoic acid, anise oil, etc., used chiefly to stop diarrhea in children.
- parodying — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- parroting — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
- parsonage — the residence of a member of the clergy, as provided by the parish or church.