9-letter words containing r, e, g, i, n
- oystering — any of several edible, marine, bivalve mollusks of the family Ostreidae, having an irregularly shaped shell, occurring on the bottom or adhering to rocks or other objects in shallow water.
- 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.
- parceling — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parenting — a father or a mother.
- 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
- pattering — to talk glibly or rapidly, especially with little regard to meaning; chatter.
- 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.
- 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.
- phreaking — phone phreak.
- pickering — Edward Charles, 1846–1919, and his brother, William Henry, 1858–1938, U.S. astronomers.
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- pilfering — stealing, petty theft
- pondering — to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
- poppering — a type of pear tree
- porringer — a low dish or cup, often with a handle, from which soup, porridge, or the like is eaten.
- pothering — commotion; uproar.
- pottering — putter1 .
- pottinger — an apothecary
- powdering — a thin sprinkling of something on a surface
- 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
- prehiring — relating to the period before hiring
- preluding — a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
- preminger — Otto (Ludwig) 1906–86, U.S. motion-picture actor, director, and producer, born in Austria.
- 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.
- presiding — to occupy the place of authority or control, as in an assembly or meeting; act as president or chairperson.
- presignal — to signal in advance
- presuming — presumptuous.
- prewiring — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- prigogine — Ilya [il-yuh,, eel-;; Russian ee-lyah] /ˈɪl yə,, ˈil-;; Russian iˈlyɑ/ (Show IPA), 1917–2003, Belgian chemist, born in Russia: Nobel prize 1977.
- progestin — any substance having progesteronelike activity.
- protogine — a gneissose granite with sericite, found in the Alps
- puttering — to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner: to putter in the garden.
- pyrogenic — producing or produced by heat or fever.
- quavering — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- quivering — the act or state of quivering; a tremble or tremor.
- rabbeting — a deep notch formed in or near one edge of a board, framing timber, etc., so that something else can be fitted into it or so that a door or the like can be closed against it.
- racegoing — that goes to races
- racketing — Slang. an occupation, livelihood, or business. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
- range oil — oil suitable for burning as the fuel of a kitchen stove.