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11-letter words containing p, r, i, g

  • ground pink — a plant, Linanthus dianthiflorus, of southern California, having pink or white flowers.
  • guide price — a speculative price for something not yet offered for sale
  • guttersnipe — a person belonging to or characteristic of the lowest social group in a city.
  • gypsiferous — containing gypsum.
  • hagiographa — the third of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, variously arranged, but usually comprising the Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles.
  • hagiography — the writing and critical study of the lives of the saints; hagiology.
  • hairsprings — Plural form of hairspring.
  • handsprings — Plural form of handspring.
  • hardscaping — Hardscape.
  • harrumphing — Present participle of harrumph.
  • helicograph — an instrument for drawing helices.
  • heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
  • heliography — The scientific study of the sun.
  • hieroglyphs — Plural form of hieroglyph.
  • hierography — a treatise on religion or sacred things
  • high jumper — a participant in the high jump.
  • high priest — a chief priest.
  • high-priced — expensive; costly: a high-priced camera.
  • highprofile — (rare) alternative spelling of high-profile.
  • hip huggers — trousers that begin at the hips instead of the waist
  • hip-huggers — (of a garment) having a close-fitting waistline placed at the hip rather than at the natural waist: hiphugger jeans.
  • hippogriffs — Plural form of hippogriff.
  • histography — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
  • holographic — 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.
  • homeporting — Present participle of homeport.
  • homographic — 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.”.
  • hot springs — city in central Ark., adjoining a national park: the park has 47 hot mineral springs: pop. 36,000
  • hygroscopic — absorbing or attracting moisture from the air.
  • hypermiling — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
  • hyperphagia — bulimia.
  • hyperphagic — bulimia.
  • hypogastric — of, relating to, or situated in the hypogastrium.
  • hypogravity — The presence of an apparently decreased gravitational field (such as in an aircraft following a parabolic path).
  • hypoid gear — a gear resembling a bevel gear in form but designed to mesh with a similar gear in such a way that their axes would not intersect, one axis crossing over the other at approximately a right angle.
  • ichnography — the art of drawing a ground plan or layout of a building.
  • iconography — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
  • ideographic — an ideogram.
  • idiographic — pertaining to or involving the study or explication of individual cases or events (opposed to nomothetic).
  • imido group — the bivalent group =NH linked to one or two acid groups.
  • imino group — the bivalent group =NH not linked to any acid group.
  • imperilling — Present participle of imperil.
  • impignorate — (obsolete, transitive) To pledge or pawn.
  • imploringly — to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: They implored him to go.
  • importuning — to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
  • imprecating — Present participle of imprecate.
  • impregnable — susceptible to impregnation, as an egg.
  • impregnably — In an impregnable manner; in a manner to defy attack.
  • impregnated — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
  • impregnates — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
  • impregnator — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
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