10-letter words containing r, i, g, s
- plastering — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- polarising — to cause polarization in.
- pop singer — sb who sings popular music
- porpoising — any of several small, gregarious cetaceans of the genus Phocoena, usually blackish above and paler beneath, and having a blunt, rounded snout, especially the common porpoise, P. phocoena, of both the North Atlantic and Pacific.
- practising — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- pragmatics — pragmatic sanction.
- pragmatism — character or conduct that emphasizes practicality.
- pragmatist — a person who is oriented toward the success or failure of a particular line of action, thought, etc.; a practical person.
- praisingly — in a praising manner; with praise
- pre-design — to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge.
- preachings — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- preleasing — to sign or grant a lease on (a building, apartment, etc.) in advance of construction: Agents have preleased more than 60 percent of the new building.
- presenting — to furnish or endow with a gift or the like, especially by formal act: to present someone with a gold watch.
- presignify — to signify or indicate beforehand; foretell.
- pressuring — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- prick song — written music.
- pricklings — tingly sensations of discomfort or euphoria
- priestling — a small or insignificant priest
- privileges — a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most: the privileges of the very rich.
- 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.
- processing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- prodigious — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- professing — to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to: He professed extreme regret.
- proglottis — one of the segments or joints of a tapeworm, containing complete reproductive systems, usually both male and female.
- prognostic — of or relating to prognosis.
- prosecting — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- prospering — to be successful or fortunate, especially in financial respects; thrive; flourish.
- pupigerous — (of an insect) having a pupa
- purchasing — buying
- purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- pursuingly — in a pursuing manner
- pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- raised bog — a bog of convex shape produced by growth of sphagnum and other bog plants in acid conditions and the subsequent build up of acid peat
- rangership — the office or position of a ranger
- ransacking — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- rear sight — the sight nearest the breech of a firearm.
- reassuring — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- recognised — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recognizes — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- red ensign — the ensign of the British Merchant Navy, having the Union Jack on a red background at the upper corner of the vertical edge alongside the hoist
- redressing — to set right; remedy or repair (wrongs, injuries, etc.).
- refreshing — having the power to restore freshness, vitality, energy, etc.: a refreshing nap.
- refugeeism — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
- registered — recorded, as in a register or book; enrolled.
- registerer — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- registrant — a person who registers or is registered.
- registrary — (at Cambridge University) a registrar
- registrate — to select and combine pipe organ stops.
- regression — the act of going back to a previous place or state; return or reversion.