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Definition: Promising |
PromisingAdjective1. Showing possibility of achievement or excellence; "a promising young man". 2. Full or promise; "had a bright future in publishing"; "the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "promising" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Language | Full of promise. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: PromisingSynonym: bright (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hope | Probable, on the high road to; within sight of shore, within sight of land; promising, propitious; of promise, full of promise; of good omen; auspicious, de bon augure; reassuring; encouraging, cheering, inspiriting, looking up, bright, roseate, couleur de rose, rose-colored. |
Promise | Adjective: promising; Verb: promissory; votive; under hand and seal, upon oath. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Promising |
| English words defined with "promising": advantageousness ♦ baseball clinic, blossom, blossom forth, blossom out, bright ♦ comer ♦ doomed ♦ favorableness, favourableness ♦ ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred ♦ lead ♦ messianic ♦ note payable ♦ Promissive ♦ To flat out, track, trail ♦ unfold, unlucky. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "promising": A* algorithm, add-on interest, Alley, Amalthea's Horn, A-star algorithm ♦ best-few strategy, best-first search ♦ Chandelier, Cross-bones ♦ Famish, Fire ants, focus of attention ♦ killer app ♦ Lark ♦ Marriage ♦ Online Media, ordered search ♦ Partridge, Pears, Polydioxanone ♦ Rainbow ♦ Singing. (references) |
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Screenplays | Well, I'll come back with you if you like, but like, I'm not promising anything, you know (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge) I reckon I'm safe in promising you that (The Night of the Hunter; writing credit: James Agee; Davis Grubb) Go, and redeem some other promising young creature, but leave me to keep Christmas in my own way. (Scrooge; writing credit: Charles Dickens; Noel Langley) I ain't promising you nothing extra (The Outlaw Josey Wales; writing credit: Forrest Carter; Sonia Chernus) I was a promising cruiser weight (Halifax f.p: Swimming with Sharks; writing credit: Robyn Sinclair; Keith Thompson) | |
Lyrics | Is the sound of someone promising they'll never go. (Old Fashioned Love Song; performing artist: Three Dog Night) You're promising that one day you may (Just Be A Man About It; performing artist: Toni Braxton) | |
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 | Pictured are two researchers on a laboratorry setting. They are looking at slides on a light box. These are slides of cultures of cells that make monoclonal antibodies. These are grown in a lab and the researchers are analyzing the products to select the most promising of them. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Taxol, found in the bark of the pacific yew tree (taxus brevifolin), is a promising anti-cancer drug. It takes 30,000 pounds of bark (2,000-4,000 trees) to produce one kilogram of taxol. The tree had to be sacrificed to produce the bark. It can take decades for pacific yew to reach shoulder height, small trees yield less bark. Alternatives for producing taxol are being explored. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | [Developers of a promising new experimental vaccine against rubella (German measles)]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | A promising outlook for the New Year. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Harbor skyline" by Frank P.J. Van Haalen Commentary: "A promising skyline in the harbor of Stellendam, Holland, The Netherlands." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The drug court is a promising approach. (references) | |
For varnishes and gels, the data are promising. (references) | ||
Many are promising but they are not yet widely available. (references) | ||
Business | Nonetheless, promising market openings are occurring. (references) | |
Wireless, PCS, and fiber optics are the most promising subsectors. (references) | ||
The potential for foreign processed food exports is very promising. (references) | ||
Children | Cambodia | In some of these cases, the perpetrators encouraged women to give up their children under false pretenses, for example, by promising to care for the children temporarily but then refusing to return them. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Saudi Arabia | Persons whose criticisms align them with an organized political opposition are subject to arrest and detention until they confess to a crime or sign a statement promising not to resume such criticisms, which is tantamount to a confession. (references) |
Burma | In the past, soldiers beat Christian clergy who refused to sign statements promising to stop preaching to non-Christians. (references) | |
Economic History | Greece | Glazed ceramic flags and paving, hearth or wall tiles, swan or chipped, sliced or peeled wood, painters fillings and faucets, indoor wall and floor materials and all types of door and window fittings and plumbing and bathroom hardware are among the most promising products to be imported to Greece. (references) |
Japan | Home building products and interiors, packaged homes, personal computers, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, marine products, feed grains, and outdoor leisure goods are particularly promising import sectors in northern Japan. (references) | |
Japan | Container traffic from the United States is increasing at the ports of Tomakomai (near Sapporo), as well as Hachinohe (Aomori Prefecture) and Sendai, promising to reduce transportation costs. (references) | |
Human Rights | Sri Lanka | The businessmen were freed after making partial payment and promising to pay the balance. (references) |
Peru | Earlier investigations of the allegations found that primarily during 1996-97, health workers in public hospitals and family planning clinics administered by the Ministry of Health had induced female patients to opt for sterilization by promising them food or another type of goods or services, or by not providing them with complete information about available alternatives. (references) | |
Minorities | Dominican Republic | They believe that this ensures their children a more promising future. (references) |
Political Economy | JAPAN | The current Koizumi government has sought to break from the policy of fiscal support by capping the government budget deficit and promising thoroughgoing structural reform "without sacred cows." The Bank of Japan has also reduced interest rates on short term funds to essentially zero, but its ability to lower real interest rates has been hampered by persistent deflation. (references) |
Ukraine | The new Constitution recognizes the right to private ownership of land and property, strengthens provisions on the rule-of-law, and provides for a more independent judiciary, promising more effective legal protection for investors. (references) | |
Japan | Handsome, frank and articulate, Koizumi garnered overwhelming public support by promising to undertake thoroughgoing reforms of Japan's economy and political system. (references) | |
Political Rights | United Kingdom | In July the conflict intensified, when David Trimble, reflecting disquiet within his Ulster Unionist Party, resigned his position as First Minister, promising to resume office only after the IRA had begun weapons decommissioning. (references) |
Trade | Thailand | The term "Project Finance" refers to the financing of projects that are dependent on the project cash flows for repayment . Successful projects rely on a large number of integrated contractual arrangements as well as the country's legal framework and investment environment . There is a full range of public and private sector financing options for project investors in Thailand . Commercial bank loans are available for investors who can show promising yields in the short-to medium term . Equity market fund raising has also taken off in recent years as the Thai Stock Market has developed. (references) |
Philippines | On May 10, 2000, BOC began to operate a "Super Green Lane" (SGL), promising qualified importers immediate, no--questions-asked clearance of goods, other than goods subject to import licenses and other controls. (references) | |
Women | Colombia | Despite an explicit constitutional provision promising additional resources for single mothers and government efforts to provide them with training in parenting skills, women's groups reported that the social and economic problems of single mothers remained great. (references) |
Worker Rights | United Arab Emirates | Signing 6-month contracts promising work in the hospitality industry, the women often are required to dance in the local bars of three- and four-star hotels. (references) |
Uzbekistan | In large cities such as Tashkent and Samarkand, traffickers use newspaper advertisements to lure women by promising high-paying work or marriage abroad. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Michael J. Fox | Stem cell is a very big possibility and a very big part of it. I don't like to rule out anything, but certainly that's a very promising thing. |
Rush Limbaugh | Bush sold his stock in a struggling Texas energy company where he was a director, he signed a letter promising to hold onto the shares for at least six months. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | The report from the Postmaster General exhibits the condition of that Department as highly satisfactory for the present and still more promising for the future. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Commercial treaties promising great advantages to our enterprising merchants and navigators have been formed with the distant Governments of Muscat and Siam. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | One third of our most promising high school graduates are financially unable to continue the development of their talents. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | This is the most positive and promising defense program we have undertaken. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | We gather tonight at a dramatic and deeply promising time in our history, and in the history of man on earth. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | I also know it's hard to do the work of citizenship when for years, politicians in both parties have treated you like consumers and spectators, promising you something for nothing and playing on your fears and frustrations. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Promising" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 74.40% of the time. "Promising" is used about 991 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 74.4% | 737 | 9,199 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 24.9% | 247 | 18,964 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.4% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.3% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 991 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "promising": promising beginning ♦ promising boy. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "promising": promising-looking, promising-seeming, promising-very. | |
Ending with "promising": once-promising. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
practice promising | 6 |
promising | 3 |
future promising | 2 |
drug promising technology | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "promising"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | premtues (fair, hopeful, likely, promissory), që jep shenja të mira. (various references) | |
Arabic | متوقع له مستقبل مرموق, مرجو, مبشر (auspicious, encouraging, evangelist, favorable, favourable, hopeful, missionary, preacher, promise), واعد (committed, favorable, favourable, hopeful, likely, portentous, promise, promised), رجى منه خيرا. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обещаващ (hopeful, likely), насърчителен (encouraging). (various references) | |
Chinese | 许诺 (promised), 有希望 (hopeful, prospective), 光明 (bright). (various references) | |
Czech | příznivý (auspicious, beneficial, benign, fair, favorable, favourable, hopeful, hospitable, propitiatory, propitious, prosperous), slibný (auspicious, bright, coming, encouraging, hopeful, up and coming), nadìjný (auspicious, chanceful, hoped-for, hopeful, roseate, up and coming). (various references) | |
Finnish | toiveikas (hopeful), lupaava (mellowing). (various references) | |
French | prometteur, promettant, avenir/d'. (various references) | |
German | vielversprechend (auspiciously, encouraging, hopeful), versprechend (promissory), aussichtsvoll, aussichtsreich (hopeful, odds-on). (various references) | |
Greek | υποσχόμενοσ (promisor), υποσχετικόσ (promissory), εύελπισ (army cadet, hopeful, sanguine), ευοίωνοσ (auspicious), ελπιδοφόροσ (hopeful), ταλαντούχος (talented), δίδων ελπίδασ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מבטיח (up and coming), בעל סכוים טובים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ígéretes (hopeful, of great promise). (various references) | |
Italian | promettente (hopeful, rising, up and coming). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 旨い (appetizing, clever, delicious, expert, fortunate, skillful, splendid, successful, wise). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たぼう (busy, pressure of work), たのもしい (hopeful, reliable, trustworthy), すえたのもしい, うまい (appetizing, clever, delicious, expert, fortunate, skillful, splendid, successful, wise), こうちょう (bird of passage, blush, favourable, flood tide, flush, hard tone, headmaster, high spirits, high tide, in good shape, migratory bird, nightingale, offices of a public or governmental organization, principal, satisfactory, surge), ゆうぼう (full of hope, good prospects), ゆうい (able, ascendancy, capable, magnificent, predominance, significance, superiority, talented). (various references) | |
Korean | 약속 (Appointment, Promise). (various references) | |
Manx | gialdynagh (hopeful), gialdyn (back, grant, promise, stake). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omisingpray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | promissor (promissory), prometedor (prosperous), que dá esperanças, esperançoso (up-and-coming, white-headed). (various references) | |
Romanian | promiţãtor (bright). (various references) | |
Russian | многообещающий (coming, hopeful, up-and-coming). (various references) | |
Scottish | gealltainn (v.n. promising). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | obećavajući. (various references) | |
Spanish | prometedor (fair, hopeful, likely, promiser, promisor, rising, rosy). (various references) | |
Swedish | lovande (auspicious, coming, hopeful, up and coming), förhoppningsful (hopeful). (various references) | |
Turkish | yetenekli (able, capable, clever, competent, fit, gifted, handsome, inclined, intelligent, practised, skilful, skilled, skillful, strong, talented), umut verici, gelecek vaadeden (up and coming), geleceği parlak (hopeful, up and coming), ümit verici (encouraging, hopeful, roseate, rosy, up and coming). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | багатообіцяючий (hopeful, up and coming), перспективний (available, long range, perspective). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đầy triển vọng, đầy hứa hẹn. (various references) | |
Welsh | addawol. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Ezekiel Chapter 13, Verse 22 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Anq' wn diestrefete kardian dikaiou adikwV kai egw ou diestrefon auton kai tou katiscusai ceiraV anomou to kaqolou mh apostreyai apo thV odou autou thV ponhraV kai zhsai auton |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Pro eo quod maerere fecistis cor iusti mendaciter quem ego non contristavi et confortastis manus impii ut non reverteretur a via sua mala et viveret |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For that that ye maden leeiyyngli the herte of the iust man for to mourne, whom Y made not sorewful; and ye coumfortiden the hoondis of the vnpitous man, that he shulde not turne ayen fro hys yuel weie, and shulde lyue. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Because with your false words you have given pain to the heart of the upright man when I had not made him sad; in order to make strong the hands of the evil-doer so that he may not be turned from his evil way and get life: |
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| Language | Ezekiel Chapter 13, Verse 22 |
| Cebuano | Tungod kay pinaagi sa kabakakan ginapasubo ninyo ang kasingkasing sa matarung, nga kaniya wala ako magpasubo, ug nagpalig-on kamo sa mga kamot sa dautan, aron siya dili mobalik gikan sa dautan niyang dalan, ug maluwas nga buhi; |
| Chinese | 我 不 使 義 人 傷 心 、 你 們 卻 以 謊 話 使 他 傷 心 、 又 堅 固 惡 人 的 手 、 使 他 不 回 頭 離 開 惡 道 得 以 救 活 ． |
| Croatian | Jer vi lažju ražalostiste srce pravednika, koje ja ražalostiti ne htjedoh, a okrijepiste ruke bezbožnika da se ne obrati od zla puta bezbožnièkog pa da život spasi. |
| Danish | Fordi I ved Svig volder den retfærdiges Hjerte Smerte, skønt jeg ikke vilde volde ham Smerte, og styrker den gudløses Hænder, så han ikke omvender sig fra sin onde Vej, at jeg kan holde ham i Live, |
| Dutch | Omdat gijlieden het hart des rechtvaardigen door valsheid hebt bedroefd gemaakt, daar Ik hem geen smart aangedaan heb; en omdat gij de handen des goddelozen gesterkt hebt, opdat hij zich van zijn bozen weg niet afkeren zou, dat Ik hem in het leven behield; |
| Finnish | Koska olette valheella murehduttaneet vanhurskaan sydämen, vaikka minä en tahtonut häntä murehduttaa, ja olette vahvistaneet jumalattoman käsiä, ettei hän kääntyisi pahalta tieltänsä ja saisi elää, |
| French | Parce que vous affligez le coeur du juste par des mensonges, Quand moi-même je ne l`ai point attristé, Et parce que vous fortifiez les mains du méchant Pour l`empêcher de quitter sa mauvaise voie et pour le faire vivre, |
| German | Darum daß ihr das Herz der Gerechten fälschlich betrübet, die ich nicht betrübt habe, und habt gestärkt die Hände der Gottlosen, daß sie sich von ihrem bösen Wesen nicht bekehren, damit sie lebendig möchten bleiben: |
| Haitian Creole | Mwen pa ta renmen anyen rive bon moun yo. Men nou menm, avèk manti n'ap bay yo, n'ap dekouraje yo. N'ap ankouraje mechan yo pou yo pa chanje. Nou pa ba yo chans sove lavi yo. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang-orang baik yang tidak mau Kuapa-apakan, kamu buat kecil hati dengan kebohonganmu. Orang-orang jahat kamu buat besar hati supaya tetap berdosa dan tidak diselamatkan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Sebab kamu sudah mendukacitakan hati orang yang benar dengan dustamu, sedang tiada Aku mendukakan dia, dan kamu sudah menguatkan tangan orang fasik, sehingga tiada ia balik dari pada jalannya yang jahat akan memeliharakan nyawanya; |
| Italian | Voi infatti avete rattristato con menzogne il cuore del giusto, mentre io non l'avevo rattristato e avete rafforzato il malvagio perché non desistesse dalla sua vita malvagia e vivesse. |
| Maori | No te mea kua whakapouritia e koutou ki te kupu teka te ngakau o te tangata tika, kihai nei i whakapouritia e ahau; a whakaungia ana nga ringa o te tangata kino, i kore ai e tahuri mai i tona ara kino, kia ora ai: |
| Norwegian | Fordi I ved løgn gjør den rettferdiges hjerte motløst, uten at jeg har bedrøvet ham, og styrker den ugudeliges hender, så han ikke vender om fra sin onde vei, og jeg kan la ham leve, |
| Portuguese | Visto que entristecestes o coração do justo com falsidade, não o havendo eu entristecido, e fortalecestes as mãos do ímpio, para que não se desviasse do seu mau caminho, e vivesse; |
| Rumanian | Pentrucq kntristayi prin minciuni inima celui neprihqnit, cknd Eu knsumi nu l-am kntristat, wi pentrucq kntqriyi mknile celui rqu ca sq -l kmpedecayi sq se lase de calea lui cea rea, fqgqduindu -i viaya, - |
| Russian | ъБ ФП, ЮФП ЧЩ МПЦША ПРЕЮБМЙЧБЕФЕ УЕТДГЕ РТБЧЕДОЙЛБ, ЛПФПТПЕ с ОЕ ИПФЕМ ПРЕЮБМЙЧБФШ, Й РПДДЕТЦЙЧБЕФЕ ТХЛЙ ВЕЪЪБЛПООЙЛБ, ЮФПВЩ ПО ОЕ ПВТБФЙМУС ПФ РПТПЮОПЗП РХФЙ УЧПЕЗП Й ОЕ УПИТБОЙМ ЦЙЪОЙ УЧПЕК, -- |
| Swedish | Eftersom I genom lögnaktigt tal haven gjort den rättfärdige försagd i hjärtat, honom som jag ingalunda ville plåga, men däremot haven styrkt den ogudaktiges mod, så att han icke vänder om från sin onda väg och räddar sitt liv, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "promising": promisingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "promising": compromising, outpromising, overpromising, uncompromising, unpromising. (additional references) | |
Words containing "promising": uncompromisingly, uncompromisingness, uncompromisingnesses, unpromisingly. (additional references) | |
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"Promising" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ironising, Promessi, promiseing, promissing, prommissing, prosimian. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "promising" (pronounced prÄ"musing) |
| 5 | -m u s i ng | grimacing. |
| 4 | -u s i ng | buttressing, canvassing, embarrassing, encompassing, focusing, harnessing, menacing, noticing, prejudicing, refocusing, repurchasing, resurfacing, servicing, surfacing, witnessing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | annexing, announcing, accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, bypassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embracing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, influencing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, mixing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, wissing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-m-n-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: imposing, imprison, primings. | |
-2 letters: impings, origins, poising, priming, prising, prosing, romping, signior, signori, spiring, sporing. | |
-3 letters: gipons, girons, grison, groins, imping, minors, miring, moping, ogrism, origin, orpins, pingos, pirogi, poring, porism, posing, primos, prions, prison, prongs, riming, riping, rising, roping, rosing, signor, siping, siring, soring, spinor, spring. | |
-4 letters: gimps, gipon, girns, giron, giros, gismo. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-i-m-n-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: comprising, reimposing. | |
+2 letters: imprisoning, improvising, promisingly, slipforming, temporising, unpromising. | |
+3 letters: compromising, misreporting, outpromising, polymerising, premonishing. | |
+4 letters: computerising, extemporising, impersonating, impoverishing, impregnations, misprograming, overpromising, premoistening, primogenitors, superimposing, trampolinings, unpromisingly. | |
+5 letters: microsporangia, misprogramming, mispronouncing, overimpressing, primogenitures, spermiogenesis, uncompromising. | |
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