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9-letter words containing a, g, r, i, p

  • grapiness — the quality of tasting like a grape
  • grappelli — Stéphane (ˈstɛfən) 1908–97, French jazz violinist: with Django Reinhardt, he led the Quintet of the Hot Club of France between 1934 and 1939
  • grappling — a hook or an iron instrument by which one thing, as a ship, fastens onto another; grapnel.
  • gray pine — jack pine.
  • grill pan — a wide, shallow metal vessel used to contain food that is being cooked under a grill
  • grip tape — adhesive tape used for friction
  • guard pin — (in a lever escapement) a pin on the lever, meeting the safety roller in such a way as to prevent the lever from overbanking.
  • guardship — a warship responsible for the safety of other ships in its company
  • hampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
  • handgrips — Plural form of handgrip.
  • ideograph — an ideogram.
  • idiograph — a mark or signature characteristic of a particular person, organization, etc.; trademark. Compare logotype (def 2).
  • impairing — to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.
  • imparting — to make known; tell; relate; disclose: to impart a secret.
  • integraph — integrator (def 2).
  • interpage — to print (matter) on intervening pages
  • larruping — very; exceedingly: That was a larruping good meal.
  • lexigraph — A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
  • magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
  • marigraph — a device that automatically registers the rise and fall of the tide.
  • omnigraph — a device for converting Morse Code signals that are punched on a tape into audio signals, used in the training of telegraph operators.
  • operating — used or engaged in performing operations: an operating surgeon.
  • orphaning — Present participle of orphan.
  • pandering — a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp.
  • panegyric — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
  • papergirl — a girl who delivers newspapers to homes.
  • paraglide — to engage in paragliding.
  • paralogia — incoherent speech or thinking
  • parceling — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
  • paregoric — a camphorated tincture of opium, containing benzoic acid, anise oil, etc., used chiefly to stop diarrhea in children.
  • parenting — a father or a mother.
  • pargasite — a green or bluegreen variety of hornblende.
  • pargeting — any of various plasters or roughcasts for covering walls or other surfaces, especially a mortar of lime, hair, and cow dung for lining chimney flues.
  • pargyline — a monoamine oxidase inhibitor used to treat hypertension and depression
  • parodying — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
  • parroting — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
  • partaking — to take or have a part or share along with others; participate (usually followed by in): He won't partake in the victory celebration.
  • partridge — any of several Old World gallinaceous game birds of the subfamily Perdicinae, especially Perdix perdix.
  • pastoring — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
  • pasturing — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
  • pattering — to talk glibly or rapidly, especially with little regard to meaning; chatter.
  • pellagrin — a person affected with pellagra.
  • perpignan — a department in S France. 1600 sq. mi. (4145 sq. km). Capital: Perpignan.
  • pervading — omnipresent; felt everywhere
  • phansigar — a person from East India who operates as a thief and a murderer
  • phreaking — phone phreak.
  • pictogram — pictograph.
  • pig's ear — ear of a pig
  • pignorate — to pledge or pawn
  • pilferage — the act or practice of pilfering; petty theft.
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