9-letter words containing a, g, r, i, p
- pilgarlic — a person regarded with mild or pretended contempt or pity.
- pin grass — common storksbill, a weed with fernlike leaves
- pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
- podgorica — a republic in S Europe since 2006: formerly a constituent republic of Yugoslavia, in the SW part (1918–2006); an independent kingdom 1878–1918. 6333 sq. mi. (13,812 sq. km). Capital: Podgorica.
- porogamic — pertaining to or designating porogamy
- posigrade — of, relating to, or designating motion in the same direction as the current or normal motion
- pragmatic — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
- prayingly — with prayer, prayerfully
- pre-image — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- preaching — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- preassign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- prepaging — (architecture) (Or "working set model") A technique whereby the operating system in a paging virtual memory multitasking environment loads all pages of a process's working set into memory before the process is restarted. Under demand paging a process accesses its working set by page faults every time it is restarted. Under prepaging the system remembers the pages in each process's working set and loads them into physical memory before restarting the process. Prepaging reduces the page fault rate of reloaded processes and hence generally improves CPU efficiency.
- presignal — to signal in advance
- price tag — a label or tag that shows the price of the item to which it is attached.
- price-tag — a label or tag that shows the price of the item to which it is attached.
- progravid — progestational (def 1).
- prorating — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- ptarmigan — any of several grouses of the genus Lagopus, of mountainous and cold northern regions, having feathered feet.
- pterygial — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
- purgation — the act of purging.
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- putrilage — putrid or putrescent matter.
- ragpicker — a person who picks up rags and other waste material from the streets, refuse heaps, etc., for a livelihood.
- raspingly — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- recapping — to recondition (a worn automobile tire) by cementing on a strip of prepared rubber and vulcanizing by subjecting to heat and pressure in a mold.
- repairing — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
- repeating — repeating or saying again
- replacing — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- reshaping — the act of shaping again or differently
- revamping — to renovate, redo, or revise: We've decided to revamp the entire show.
- scrapings — Scrapings are small amounts or pieces that have been scraped off something.
- scrapping — a fight or quarrel: She got into a scrap with her in-laws.
- scrippage — the contents of a scrip
- serigraph — a print made by the silkscreen process.
- singapore — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- skiagraph — a radiograph.
- snap ring — any of various kinds of metal rings that must be forced open to be used and snap back into place to make a snug fit.
- spagyrist — an alchemist
- sparingly — economical (often followed by in or of).
- sparkling — to issue in or as if in little sparks, as fire or light: The candlelight sparkled in the crystal.
- spiraling — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- spirogram — a record made by a spirograph
- spirogyra — a widely distributed filamentous freshwater green alga of the genus Spirogyra.
- sporangia — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- spragging — a pole or bar hinged to the rear axle of a cart or the like in such a way that it can brace the vehicle against a road to prevent it from rolling downhill.
- sprawling — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- sprigtail — the pintail, Anas acuta.
- springald — a youth; young fellow.
- strapping — powerfully built; robust.
- sugar pie — an open pie with a brown sugar filling