11-letter words containing a, g, e
- at a glance — If you see something at a glance, you see or recognize it immediately, and without having to think or look carefully.
- at an angle — If something is at an angle, it is leaning in a particular direction so that it is not straight, horizontal, or vertical.
- atherogenic — causing atheroma
- attapulgite — a clay mineral, basic hydrous silicate of magnesium and aluminum, the active ingredient of fuller's earth.
- attempering — Present participle of attemper.
- attenuating — to weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value: to attenuate desire.
- augmentable — Capable of being augmented or increased.
- augmentless — (grammar) lacking augment.
- autoantigen — an antigen of one's own cells or cell products.
- autochanger — a device in a record player or CD player that enables a small stack of records or CDs to be dropped automatically onto the turntable or player tray one at a time and played separately
- autogenesis — spontaneous generation
- autogenetic — self-generated.
- autographed — Simple past tense and past participle of autograph.
- autogravure — a particular process of photographic engraving in which images are projected directly onto a plate
- autosuggest — to influence one's own thoughts or behaviour through methods other than conscious thought
- autozeroing — (electronics) A sampling technique that measures an offset from zero and later compensates by subtracting the difference.
- avant-garde — Avant-garde art, music, theatre, and literature is very modern and experimental.
- average joe — An average Joe is an average or ordinary man.
- average out — If a set of numbers average out to a particular figure or if you average them out to that figure, their average is calculated to be that figure.
- averageness — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
- awkward age — early adolescence.
- awning deck — a weather deck supported on very light scantlings.
- axle grease — lubricant for axles
- azores high — a subtropical high centered near the Azores.
- back garden — a garden at the rear of a house
- back-logged — a reserve or accumulation, as of stock, work, or business: a backlog of business orders.
- backlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlight.
- baconburger — a hamburger topped with strips of cooked bacon.
- badger game — the blackmailing of a man by maneuvering him into a compromising situation with a woman
- baggage car — A baggage car is a railway carriage, often without windows, which is used to carry luggage, goods, or mail.
- baggy green — the Australian Test cricket cap
- balance lug — a lugsail having a portion of its area forward of the mast and having a long foot, often with a boom.
- ballbearing — Alternative form of ball bearing.
- bandylegged — having bandy legs; bowlegged
- bangladeshi — Bangladeshi means belonging to or relating to Bangladesh, or to its people or culture.
- banistering — Present participle of banister.
- banquetings — Plural form of banqueting.
- banteringly — in a bantering fashion
- barebacking — sexual intercourse performed without the use of a condom
- bargainable — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- barge spike — a square spike with a chisel point.
- bargeboards — Plural form of bargeboard.
- bargemaster — the owner of a barge
- basal ridge — a U -shaped ridge at the base of the posterior surface of the crown of a tooth.
- baserunning — the act of running around bases
- basin range — a mountain range of the type found in the Great Basin region of the western U.S., typically long and narrow and characterized by faulted, tilted blocks of strata.
- basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
- bath sponge — any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.
- baton rouge — the capital of Louisiana, in the SE part on the Mississippi River. Pop: 225 090 (2003 est)
- battery egg — an egg from a battery hen