8-letter words containing r, p, g
- micropig — A miniature breed of pig.
- morphing — Linguistics. a sequence of phonemes constituting a minimal unit of grammar or syntax, and, as such, a representation, member, or contextual variant of a morpheme in a specific environment. Compare allomorph (def 2).
- myograph — an instrument for recording the contractions and relaxations of muscles.
- n-prolog — Prolog extended with explicit negation. Dov Gabbay <[email protected]>.
- odograph — a recording odometer.
- oppugner — Someone who oppugns; an opponent.
- optogram — (physiology) An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple.
- outgroup — (systematics) In cladistics, all the taxa included in a study that do not belong to the ingroup that is of immediate interest.
- p-prolog — (language) A parallel logic language.
- packager — a person or business firm that packages a product or merchandise for commercial sale: a soap packager.
- pagurian — a hermit crab, especially of the genus Pagurus.
- palgrave — Francis Turner, 1824–97, English critic, poet, and anthologist.
- palmgren — Selim [sel-im,, sey-lim;; Finnish se-lim] /ˈsɛl ɪm,, ˈseɪ lɪm;; Finnish ˈsɛ lɪm/ (Show IPA), 1878–1951, Finnish pianist and composer.
- panegyry — a panegyric
- panurgic — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) a rascal, the companion of Pantagruel.
- paradigm — Grammar. a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme. a display in fixed arrangement of such a set, as boy, boy's, boys, boys'.
- parading — a large public procession, usually including a marching band and often of a festive nature, held in honor of an anniversary, person, event, etc.
- paragoge — the addition of a sound or group of sounds at the end of a word, as in the nonstandard pronunciation of height as height-th or once as once-t.
- paragram — a play on words; a pun
- paraguay — a republic in central South America between Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina. 157,047 sq. mi. (406,750 sq. km). Capital: Asunción.
- paralogy — false reasoning
- parasang — an ancient Persian unit of distance, equal to about 3.5 miles (5.6 km).
- parawing — paraglider.
- parching — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- parergon — something that is an accessory to a main work or subject; embellishment.
- pargeter — a plasterer
- partying — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- paygrade — a level on a pay scale
- pearling — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pedigree — an ancestral line; line of descent; lineage; ancestry.
- pegboard — a board having holes into which pegs are placed in specific patterns, used for playing or scoring certain games.
- peignoir — a woman's dressing gown.
- pellagra — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
- pergamon — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pergamos — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pergamum — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- perigord — a division of the former province of Guienne, in SW France.
- 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.
- phrygana — another name for garigue, used esp in Greece
- phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
- picogram — one trillionth of a gram. Abbreviation: pg.
- piercing — loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
- pig farm — a farm where pigs are kept and reared
- 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.