10-letter words containing p, u, g, i
- impugnment — to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
- impurpling — Present participle of impurple.
- inpourings — Plural form of inpouring.
- intergroup — taking place or being between groups: intergroup relationships.
- intragroup — Taking place within a group, especially within a social group.
- judgeships — Plural form of judgeship.
- lighten up — be less serious
- loving cup — a large cup, as of silver, usually with two or more handles, given as a prize, award, token of esteem or affection, etc.
- mapinguari — Alternative form of mapinguary.
- mapinguary — A legendary red-furred ground-dwelling sloth-like creature said to live in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil and Bolivia.
- mopping up — serving to complete or put the finishing touches to a phase of a particular action.
- mopping-up — serving to complete or put the finishing touches to a phase of a particular action.
- mudcapping — the process or act of blasting a rock surface with explosives
- mugho pine — a prostrate, shrubby pine, Pinus mugo mugo, native to Europe, cultivated as an ornamental.
- multigroup — having or involving several groups
- nonplusing — Present participle of nonplus.
- offputting — (uncommon) Alternative form of off-putting.
- one-upping — to get the better of; succeed in being a point, move, step, etc., ahead of (someone): They one-upped the competition.
- outleaping — Present participle of outleap.
- outplaying — Present participle of outplay.
- outpouring — outpouring.
- outputting — the act of turning out; production: the factory's output of cars; artistic output.
- panguingue — a card game of the rummy family that is played with from five to eight regular 52-card packs from which the eights, nines, and tens have been removed, the object being to win bonuses by melding certain groups of cards during the play and extra bonuses by melding all the cards in the hand.
- parageusia — an abnormal or hallucinatory sense of taste.
- pelagius i — died a.d. 561, pope 556–561.
- pemphigous — of, relating to, or affected by pemphigus
- penguinery — a group, colony, or enclosure of penguins
- perigonium — the envelope of modified leaves surrounding the antheridia in mosses.
- perigynous — situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.
- perturbing — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- pinguitude — fatness
- pittsburgh — a port in SW Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers that forms the Ohio River: steel industry.
- plateauing — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- ploughwise — back and forth in alternate rows, in the manner of a plough
- plugged in — closely connected; in touch with what is going on; informed; involved: He's one of the more plugged-in advisers at State House.
- plugged-in — closely connected; in touch with what is going on; informed; involved: He's one of the more plugged-in advisers at State House.
- plummeting — Also called plumb bob. a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
- plus sight — a backsight used in leveling.
- pound sign — a symbol (£) for “pound” or “pounds” as a monetary unit of the United Kingdom.
- prejudging — a preliminary round of judging, as in a contest where a certain number or percentage of the entrants are eliminated before the final judging.
- prelingual — of or relating to the tongue or some tonguelike part.
- pressuring — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- pro-busing — favoring or advocating legislation that requires the busing of students to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school.
- prodigious — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- prologuize — to compose or deliver a prologue.
- protruding — to project.
- pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
- publishing — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- pugilistic — a person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional.