9-letter words containing p, r, i, g
- handgrips — Plural form of handgrip.
- higher-up — a person in a position of higher authority in an organization; superior.
- hiphugger — (of a garment) having a close-fitting waistline placed at the hip rather than at the natural waist: hiphugger jeans.
- 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).
- impairing — to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.
- imparting — to make known; tell; relate; disclose: to impart a secret.
- 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.
- inspiring — to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.
- integraph — integrator (def 2).
- interpage — to print (matter) on intervening pages
- irrupting — Present participle of irrupt.
- kingsport — a city in NE Tennessee.
- kippering — Present participle of kipper.
- larruping — very; exceedingly: That was a larruping good meal.
- lexigraph — A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
- lie group — a topological group that is a manifold.
- logogriph — an anagram, or a puzzle involving anagrams.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- marigraph — a device that automatically registers the rise and fall of the tide.
- negrophil — a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
- offspring — children or young of a particular parent or progenitor.
- omnigraph — a device for converting Morse Code signals that are punched on a tape into audio signals, used in the training of telegraph operators.
- operating — used or engaged in performing operations: an operating surgeon.
- orphaning — Present participle of orphan.
- orpington — one of a breed of large, white-skinned chickens.
- outspring — to spring out
- pandering — a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp.
- panegyric — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
- papergirl — a girl who delivers newspapers to homes.
- paraglide — to engage in paragliding.
- paralogia — incoherent speech or thinking
- parceling — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- paregoric — a camphorated tincture of opium, containing benzoic acid, anise oil, etc., used chiefly to stop diarrhea in children.
- parenting — a father or a mother.
- pargasite — a green or bluegreen variety of hornblende.
- pargeting — any of various plasters or roughcasts for covering walls or other surfaces, especially a mortar of lime, hair, and cow dung for lining chimney flues.
- pargyline — a monoamine oxidase inhibitor used to treat hypertension and depression
- 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.
- partaking — to take or have a part or share along with others; participate (usually followed by in): He won't partake in the victory celebration.
- partridge — any of several Old World gallinaceous game birds of the subfamily Perdicinae, especially Perdix perdix.
- pastoring — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pasturing — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pattering — to talk glibly or rapidly, especially with little regard to meaning; chatter.
- pedigreed — having established purebred ancestry: a pedigreed collie.