8-letter words that end in g
- piffling — of little worth; trifling; piddling: piffling efforts.
- pill bug — any of various small terrestrial isopods, especially of the genera Armadillidium and Oniscus, which can roll themselves up into a spherical shape.
- piloting — a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
- piloxing — a system of exercise combining elements of Pilates and boxing
- pinchbug — a stag beetle
- pindling — puny; sickly; frail; weak.
- pinkiang — Older Spelling. former name of Harbin.
- pirating — a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- pitching — any of various dark, tenacious, and viscous substances for caulking and paving, consisting of the residue of the distillation of coal tar or wood tar.
- pivoting — a pin, point, or short shaft on the end of which something rests and turns, or upon and about which something rotates or oscillates.
- plaguing — an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
- plaining — to complain.
- plaiting — a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- planking — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
- planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- platting — a plait or braid.
- pleading — the act of a person who pleads.
- pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
- pleating — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- pledging — a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something: a pledge of aid; a pledge not to wage war.
- plinking — to shoot, as with a rifle, at targets selected at whim: to plink at coins tossed in the air.
- plodding — to walk heavily or move laboriously; trudge: to plod under the weight of a burden.
- plonking — foolish, clumsy, or inept
- plopping — to make a sound like that of something falling or dropping into water: A frog plopped into the pond.
- plotting — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- plugging — a piece of wood or other material used to stop up a hole or aperture, to fill a gap, or to act as a wedge.
- plumbing — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- plunging — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
- poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
- pointing — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- polliwog — a tadpole.
- pollywog — a tadpole.
- poly bag — a polythene bag, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
- polydrug — being or pertaining to several drug used simultaneously, especially narcotics or addictive drugs: a center for dealing with polydrug abuse.
- poontang — sexual intercourse with a woman.
- pop song — a song played by a pop group
- popeling — a deputy or supporter of the Pope
- pork pig — a pig, typically of a lean type, bred and used principally for pork
- porkling — a young pig; piglet
- pornomag — pornographic magazine
- positing — to place, put, or set.
- post-bag — mailbag.
- postdrug — following the administration of a drug
- pouching — a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
- pounding — Archaic. to shut up in or as in a pound; impound; imprison.
- powering — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- praising — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.