9-letter words containing p, r, i, g
- pellagrin — a person affected with pellagra.
- peppering — a pungent condiment obtained from various plants of the genus Piper, especially from the dried berries, used whole or ground, of the tropical climbing shrub P. nigrum.
- peregrine — foreign; alien; coming from abroad.
- pergolesi — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1710–36, Italian composer.
- périgueux — a river in SW France, flowing W to the Gironde estuary. 300 miles (485 km) long.
- perishing — causing destruction, ruin, extreme discomfort, or death: lost in the perishing cold.
- perpignan — a department in S France. 1600 sq. mi. (4145 sq. km). Capital: Perpignan.
- pervading — omnipresent; felt everywhere
- pestering — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- phansigar — a person from East India who operates as a thief and a murderer
- phreaking — phone phreak.
- pickering — Edward Charles, 1846–1919, and his brother, William Henry, 1858–1938, U.S. astronomers.
- pictogram — pictograph.
- picturing — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- pig's ear — ear of a pig
- pig's fry — the heart, liver, lights, and sweetbreads of a pig cooked, esp fried, together
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- pilferage — the act or practice of pilfering; petty theft.
- pilfering — stealing, petty theft
- pilgarlic — a person regarded with mild or pretended contempt or pity.
- pilgrimer — a pilgrim
- pin grass — common storksbill, a weed with fernlike leaves
- pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
- pittsburg — a city in W California.
- plowright — Dame Joan. born 1929, British actress, married to Laurence Olivier (1961–89)
- 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
- pondering — to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
- poppering — a type of pear tree
- 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.
- 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
- pragmatic — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
- prayingly — with prayer, prayerfully
- pre-image — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- preaching — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- preassign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- preceding — that precedes; previous: Refer back to the footnote on the preceding page.
- precising — a concise summary.
- predesign — to design beforehand or in advance
- predigest — to treat (food) by an artificial process analogous to digestion so that, when taken into the body, it is more easily digestible.
- prefigure — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
- preflight — occurring or done before a flight: a preflight briefing of the plane's crew.
- prehiring — relating to the period before hiring