11-letter words containing t, i, g, r
- piston ring — a metallic ring, usually one of a series, and split so as to be expansible, placed around a piston in order to maintain a tight fit, as inside the cylinder of an engine.
- plantigrade — walking on the whole sole of the foot, as humans, and bears.
- platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
- playwriting — the art or technique of writing theatrical plays; the work or profession of a playwright.
- point group — a class of crystals determined by a combination of their symmetry elements, all crystals left unchanged by a given set of symmetry elements being placed in the same class.
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- poll rating — a measurement of a politician's popularity among the electorate, obtained by canvassing a representative sample of people
- poltergeist — a ghost or spirit supposed to manifest its presence by noises, knockings, etc.
- port gentil — a seaport in W Gabon.
- port-gentil — a seaport in W Gabon.
- posturizing — to posture; pose.
- potteringly — in a pottering fashion, slowly
- pragmatical — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
- pragmatizer — someone who pragmatizes
- pre-testing — an advance or preliminary testing or trial, as of a new product.
- predigested — to treat (food) by an artificial process analogous to digestion so that, when taken into the body, it is more easily digestible.
- preexisting — to exist beforehand.
- preignition — ignition of the charge in an internal-combustion engine earlier in the cycle than is compatible with proper operation.
- preregister — to register in advance
- prerogative — an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
- prestigious — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
- pretraining — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
- primatology — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- printmaking — the art or technique of making prints, especially as practiced in engraving, etching, drypoint, woodcut or serigraphy.
- prize fight — A prize fight is a boxing match where the boxers are paid to fight, especially one that is not official.
- proctologic — the branch of medicine dealing with the rectum and anus.
- prodigality — the quality or fact of being prodigal; wasteful extravagance in spending.
- progenitive — capable of having offspring; reproductive.
- progeniture — procreation
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- progressist — a person favoring progress, as in politics; progressive.
- propagation — the act of propagating.
- propagative — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- prorogation — to discontinue a session of (the British Parliament or a similar body).
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- proselyting — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- prospecting — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
- prostrating — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- protagonism — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- protagonist — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- prototyping — The creation of a model and the simulation of all aspects of a product. CASE tools support different degrees of prototyping. Some offer the end-user the ability to review all aspects of the user interface and the structure of documentation and reports before code is generated.
- proxy fight — a contest between factions of stockholders in a company, in which each group attempts to gain control by soliciting signed proxy statements for sufficient votes.
- pteridology — the branch of botany dealing with ferns and related plants, as the horsetails and club mosses.
- purgatorial — removing or purging sin; expiatory: purgatorial rites.
- purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
- purging nut — physic nut.
- pyrargyrite — a blackish mineral, silver antimony sulfide, AgSbS 3 , showing, when transparent, a deep ruby-red color by transmitted light; ruby silver: an ore of silver.
- pyrogenetic — heat-producing
- pyrognostic — relating to heated minerals
- quadrigatus — a silver coin of ancient Rome, bearing an image of Jupiter in a quadriga on the reverse.