10-letter words containing a, g, r, i, p, n
- preweaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
- primarying — the mounting of a challenge to the incumbent in a primary election: There were many instances of primarying during the last election cycle.
- pro-acting — serving temporarily, especially as a substitute during another's absence; not permanent; temporary: the acting mayor.
- prognathic — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- programing — the act or process of planning or writing a program.
- protogenia — the first woman born after the great flood of Zeus, daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha.
- purchasing — buying
- rangership — the office or position of a ranger
- rappelling — (in mountaineering) the act or method of moving down a steep incline or past an overhang by means of a double rope secured above and placed around the body, usually under the left thigh and over the right shoulder, and paid out gradually in the descent.
- repaginate — to indicate the sequence of pages in (a book, manuscript, etc.) by placing numbers or other characters on each leaf; to number the pages of.
- repapering — a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
- rephrasing — to phrase again or differently: He rephrased the statement to give it less formality.
- replanning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- replanting — to plant again.
- riprapping — a quantity of broken stone for foundations, revetments of embankments, etc.
- riproaring — boisterously wild and exciting; riotous: Have a rip-roaring good time.
- ropemaking — the act, skill, or process of fabricating rope.
- saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
- scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- sharpening — the act of making the edge of something very thin or of making its end pointed
- sparganium — a marsh plant
- spattering — to scatter or dash in small particles or drops: The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself.
- spinigrade — a type of spiny echinoderm
- spiralling — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- sporangium — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- springdale — a city in NW Arkansas.
- springhaas — a leaping and burrowing rodent, Pedetes capensis, native to southern Africa, having kangaroolike legs and long, pointed ears.
- springhalt — stringhalt.
- springhare — a leaping and burrowing rodent, Pedetes capensis, native to southern Africa, having kangaroolike legs and long, pointed ears.
- springhead — a spring or fountainhead from which a stream flows.
- springtail — any of numerous minute, wingless primitive insects of the order Collembola, most possessing a special abdominal appendage for jumping that allows for the nearly perpetual springing pattern characteristic of the group.
- sugar pine — a tall pine, Pinus lambertiana, of California, Oregon, etc., having cones 20 inches (51 cm) long.
- supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
- supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
- surpassing — of a large amount or high degree; exceeding, excelling, or extraordinary: structures of surpassing magnificence.
- trapessing — to walk over; tramp: to traipse the fields.
- unaspiring — lacking ambition or aspiration
- unsparring — direct or forceful
- up-trading — to trade (a piece of equipment, car, etc.) for something similar but of greater value or quality: to uptrade one's stereo components.
- upbraiding — the act or words of a person who upbraids; severe reproof or censure: an upbraiding from one's superiors.
- updragging — a poor or inferior upbringing
- wingspread — the distance between the most outward tips of the wings when they are as extended as possible.
- zincograph — (formerly) a zinc plate produced by zincography.