9-letter words containing p, o, g, r
- part song — a song with parts for several voices, especially one meant to be sung without accompaniment.
- partygoer — a person who enjoys or frequently attends parties and celebrations.
- pastorage — pastorate.
- pastoring — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- patrology — Also called patristics. the branch of theology dealing with the teachings of the church fathers.
- patronage — the financial support or business provided to a store, hotel, or the like, by customers, clients, or paying guests.
- pavlograd — a city in E Ukraine, E of Dnepropetrovsk.
- pedograph — an imprint on paper of the foot.
- pendragon — either of two kings of ancient Britain. Compare Arthur (def 2), Uther.
- pergolesi — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1710–36, Italian composer.
- personage — a person of distinction or importance.
- petrograd — former name (1914–24) of St. Petersburg (def 2).
- petrogram — a drawing or painting on rock, especially one made by a member of a prehistoric people.
- petrolage — the addition of petrol to the surface of a body of water to get rid of mosquitoes
- petrology — study of rocks
- pharyngo- — pharynx
- phenogram — a diagram depicting taxonomic relationships among organisms based on overall similarity of many characteristics without regard to evolutionary history or assumed significance of specific characters: usually generated by computer.
- phonogram — a unit symbol of a phonetic writing system, standing for a speech sound, syllable, or other sequence of speech sounds without reference to meaning.
- photogram — a silhouette photograph made by placing an object directly on sensitized paper and exposing it to light.
- pictogram — pictograph.
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- playgroup — a group of small children, especially preschoolers, organized for play or play activities and supervised by adult volunteers.
- plowright — Dame Joan. born 1929, British actress, married to Laurence Olivier (1961–89)
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- podgorica — a republic in S Europe since 2006: formerly a constituent republic of Yugoslavia, in the SW part (1918–2006); an independent kingdom 1878–1918. 6333 sq. mi. (13,812 sq. km). Capital: Podgorica.
- pogromist — a person who participates in a pogrom
- poly-drug — being or pertaining to several drug used simultaneously, especially narcotics or addictive drugs: a center for dealing with polydrug abuse.
- polygraph — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- pondering — to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
- ponograph — an instrument for graphically recording pain or muscular fatigue.
- pop group — a band which plays pop music
- poppering — a type of pear tree
- porbeagle — a shark of the genus Lamna, especially L. nasus, a large, voracious species of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
- porogamic — pertaining to or designating porogamy
- porringer — a low dish or cup, often with a handle, from which soup, porridge, or the like is eaten.
- porterage — the work of a porter or carrier.
- posigrade — of, relating to, or designating motion in the same direction as the current or normal motion
- posturing — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- pothering — commotion; uproar.
- pottering — putter1 .
- pottinger — an apothecary
- pouringly — in a pouring fashion
- powdering — a thin sprinkling of something on a surface
- pregrowth — the period before something begins to grow
- prigogine — Ilya [il-yuh,, eel-;; Russian ee-lyah] /ˈɪl yə,, ˈil-;; Russian iˈlyɑ/ (Show IPA), 1917–2003, Belgian chemist, born in Russia: Nobel prize 1977.
- probingly — with a probing approach
- procuring — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
- producing — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- profiling — the outline or contour of the human face, especially the face viewed from one side.
- profiting — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.