9-letter words containing r, a, g, e
- pasturage — pasture.
- patronage — the financial support or business provided to a store, hotel, or the like, by customers, clients, or paying guests.
- pattering — to talk glibly or rapidly, especially with little regard to meaning; chatter.
- pay grade — the grade of a member of the armed services established according to a scale of increasing amounts of base pay and related to but not identical with official rank.
- pea green — a medium or yellowish green.
- pedograph — an imprint on paper of the foot.
- pellagrin — a person affected with pellagra.
- pendragon — either of two kings of ancient Britain. Compare Arthur (def 2), Uther.
- pentagram — a five-pointed, star-shaped figure made by extending the sides of a regular pentagon until they meet, used as an occult symbol by the Pythagoreans and later philosophers, by magicians, etc.
- perpignan — a department in S France. 1600 sq. mi. (4145 sq. km). Capital: Perpignan.
- personage — a person of distinction or importance.
- pervading — omnipresent; felt everywhere
- peshmerga — a member of the armed forces in the autonomous Kurdish-controlled region of NE Iraq
- 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
- phalanger — any of numerous arboreal marsupials of the family Phalangeridae, of Australia, having foxlike ears and a long, bushy tail.
- 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.
- phreaking — phone phreak.
- pig's ear — ear of a pig
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- pilferage — the act or practice of pilfering; petty theft.
- pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
- porbeagle — a shark of the genus Lamna, especially L. nasus, a large, voracious species of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
- 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
- pre-agree — to have the same views, emotions, etc.; harmonize in opinion or feeling (often followed by with): I don't agree with you.
- 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.
- precharge — (storage) The phase in the access cycle of DRAM during which the storage capacitors are charged to the appropriate value.
- pregnable — capable of being taken or won by force: a pregnable fortress.
- pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
- prepaging — (architecture) (Or "working set model") A technique whereby the operating system in a paging virtual memory multitasking environment loads all pages of a process's working set into memory before the process is restarted. Under demand paging a process accesses its working set by page faults every time it is restarted. Under prepaging the system remembers the pages in each process's working set and loads them into physical memory before restarting the process. Prepaging reduces the page fault rate of reloaded processes and hence generally improves CPU efficiency.
- presagers — a presentiment or foreboding.
- presignal — to signal in advance
- pretaught — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- price tag — a label or tag that shows the price of the item to which it is attached.
- price-tag — a label or tag that shows the price of the item to which it is attached.
- progamete — a cell that is the precursor of one ovum or many spermatozoa; a spermatocyte or oocyte.
- programed — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- programer — a person who writes code for computer programs.
- programme — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- propagate — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- propagule — Botany, Mycology. any structure capable of being propagated or acting as an agent of reproduction.
- pterygial — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- purgeable — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- putrilage — putrid or putrescent matter.
- pyelogram — an x-ray produced by pyelography.