8-letter words containing r, i, n, g
- perigyny — Botany. a perigynous condition.
- pershing — a 38-foot (12 meters) U.S. Army surface-to-surface nuclear missile with a single warhead and range of more than 1000 miles (1609 km).
- perugino — (Pietro Vannucci) 1446–1524, Italian painter.
- petering — to diminish gradually and stop; dwindle to nothing: The hot water always peters out in the middle of my shower.
- pharming — the process of producing medically useful products from genetically modified plants and animals.
- phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
- piercing — loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
- pig fern — giant bracken
- pig iron — iron tapped from a blast furnace and cast into pigs in preparation for conversion into steel, cast iron, or wrought iron.
- pigeonry — a loft for keeping pigeons in; dovecote; pigeon house
- pingrass — a geraniaceous plant, Erodium cicutarium, with fernlike leaves
- pirating — a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- porkling — a young pig; piglet
- powering — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- praising — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- prancing — to spring from the hind legs; to move by springing, as a horse.
- pranking — to dress or adorn in an ostentatious manner: They were all pranked out in their fanciest clothes.
- preening — (of animals, especially birds) to trim or dress (feathers, fur, etc.) with the beak or tongue: The peacock preened itself on the lawn.
- prepping — preparatory school.
- pressing — urgent; demanding immediate attention: a pressing need.
- pricking — a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like.
- prilling — Prilling is a process in which a melted substance is sprayed against upward-flowing air in a tower to form solid particles.
- primming — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- primping — to dress or adorn with care.
- printing — the state of being printed.
- prodding — to poke or jab with or as if with something pointed: I prodded him with my elbow.
- proggins — a university proctor
- proofing — evidence sufficient to establish a thing as true, or to produce belief in its truth.
- propping — to support, or prevent from falling, with or as if with a prop (often followed by up): to prop an old fence; to prop up an unpopular government.
- prowling — to rove or go about stealthily, as in search of prey, something to steal, etc.
- pryingly — in a prying manner
- purfling — to finish with an ornamental border.
- pursuing — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- q rating — a figure, based on opinion polls, intended to reflect how relatively popular and recognizable a given TV performer is with audiences
- queering — strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
- querying — a question; an inquiry.
- quirking — Present participle of quirk.
- quirting — Present participle of quirt.
- rabbling — a tool or mechanically operated device used for stirring or mixing a charge in a roasting furnace.
- racinage — decorative treatment of leather with colors and acids to produce a branchlike effect.
- raddling — Present participle of raddle.
- raffling — a form of lottery in which a number of persons buy one or more chances to win a prize.
- ragingly — angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage; incidents of road rage.
- rail gun — a weapon consisting of a pair of parallel conductive rails, using a magnetic field and electric current to launch projectiles at very high velocity.
- railings — a fence, balustrade, or barrier that consists of rails supported by posts
- rallying — the sport of driving in automobile rallies.
- rambling — aimlessly wandering.
- ranching — an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.
- rangiora — an evergreen shrub or small tree, Brachyglottis repanda, of New Zealand, having large ovate leaves and small greenish-white flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)