9-letter words containing n, a, g, p
- 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.
- guineapig — Alternative spelling of guinea pig.
- gum plant — gumweed.
- gyroplane — autogiro.
- hampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- handgrips — Plural form of handgrip.
- happening — something that happens; occurrence; event.
- heptagons — Plural form of heptagon.
- hopatcong — a town in N New Jersey.
- impacting — the striking of one thing against another; forceful contact; collision: The impact of the colliding cars broke the windshield.
- 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.
- impasting — Present participle of impaste.
- implating — Present participle of implate.
- integraph — integrator (def 2).
- interpage — to print (matter) on intervening pages
- iphigenia — Classical Mythology. the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and sister of Orestes and Electra: when she was about to be sacrificed to ensure a wind to take the Greek ships to Troy, she was saved by Artemis, whose priestess she became.
- japanning — any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces.
- kidnaping — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- lagniappe — Chiefly Southern Louisiana and Southeast Texas. a small gift given with a purchase to a customer, by way of compliment or for good measure; bonus.
- lappeting — Present participle of lappet.
- larruping — very; exceedingly: That was a larruping good meal.
- long play — a long-playing phonograph record.
- making-up — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- manage up — to build a successful working relationship with a superior, manager, or employer
- mapmaking — Cartography, the making of maps and charts.
- megapenny — /meg'*-pen"ee/ $10,000 (1 cent * 10^6). Used semi-humorously as a unit in comparing computer cost and performance figures.
- megaphone — a cone-shaped device for magnifying or directing the voice, chiefly used in addressing a large audience out of doors or in calling to someone at a distance. Compare bullhorn.
- monograph — a treatise on a particular subject, as a biographical study or study of the works of one artist.
- monophagy — The feeding on a single type of food (e.g., a single plant species).
- navy plug — a strong, dark tobacco in plug form.
- neopagans — Plural form of neopagan.
- nephogram — a photograph of a cloud
- nightcaps — Plural form of nightcap.
- nomograph — a graph, usually containing three parallel scales graduated for different variables so that when a straight line connects values of any two, the related value may be read directly from the third at the point intersected by the line.
- nonpaying — Not paying.
- omnigraph — a device for converting Morse Code signals that are punched on a tape into audio signals, used in the training of telegraph operators.
- ondograph — an instrument for graphically recording oscillatory variations, as in alternating currents.
- opalizing — Present participle of opalize.
- open game — a relatively simple game involving open ranks and files, permitting tactical play, and usually following symmetrical development
- open goal — a goal which is left open or undefended
- operating — used or engaged in performing operations: an operating surgeon.
- oppugnant — opposing; antagonistic; contrary.
- orphanage — an institution for the housing and care of orphans.
- orphaning — Present participle of orphan.
- outpacing — Present participle of outpace.
- packaging — a bundle of something, usually of small or medium size, that is packed and wrapped or boxed; parcel.
- pageantry — spectacular display; pomp: the pageantry of a coronation.
- paginated — 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.
- paint gun — an air gun that fires paint capsules, as used in paintballing