11-letter words containing a, g, l, s
- sugar maple — any of several maples having a sweet sap, especially Acer saccharum (the state tree of New York, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin), having a short trunk and long, curving branches, yielding a hard wood used for making furniture and being the chief source of maple sugar.
- supergalaxy — a system of galaxies.
- supplanting — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
- sweat gland — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
- sweat lodge — (especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.
- syllabogram — a written symbol representing a single syllable
- table sugar — granulated white sugar.
- taking lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
- tantalising — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
- tautologism — the use of tautology.
- tautologous — needless repetition of an idea, especially in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness, as in “widow woman.”.
- telemessage — a message sent by telephone or telex and delivered in printed form; in Britain, it has replaced the telegram
- tessaraglot — relating to four languages grouped together
- the gallows — execution by hanging
- the gorbals — a district of Glasgow, formerly known for its slums
- thumb glass — a drinking glass having external indentations to allow it to be firmly grasped.
- time signal — a signal sent electrically or by radio to indicate a precise moment of time as a means of checking or regulating timepieces.
- tongue-lash — to reprimand severely; scold
- travelogues — a lecture, slide show, or motion picture describing travels.
- tselinograd — a former name of Akmola.
- turn signal — A car's turn signals are the flashing lights that tell you it is going to turn left or right.
- unamusingly — in an unamusing or unentertaining manner
- unceasingly — not ceasing or stopping; continuous: an unceasing flow of criticism.
- unglamorous — full of glamour; charmingly or fascinatingly attractive, especially in a mysterious or magical way.
- ungraspable — to seize and hold by or as if by clasping with the fingers or arms.
- unguessable — to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person's weight.
- unstartling — not startling
- vanishingly — to the point of being nearly invisible or nonexistent
- very signal — a colored flare fired from a special pistol (Very pistol) for signaling at night
- vestigially — of, relating to, or of the nature of a vestige: a vestigial tail.
- vigilantism — a member of a vigilance committee.
- virginalist — Often, virginals. a rectangular harpsichord with the strings stretched parallel to the keyboard, the earlier types placed on a table: popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- vital signs — pulse, temperature, breathing, etc.
- vulgarities — the state or quality of being vulgar: the vulgarity of his remark.
- wages clerk — a worker in an office who calculates staff wages
- walking bus — a group of schoolchildren walking together along an agreed route to and from school, accompanied by adults, with children joining and leaving the group at prearranged points
- watch-glass — a curved glass disc that covers the dial of a watch
- water glass — a drinking glass; tumbler.
- wavelengths — Plural form of wavelength.
- west bengal — a state in E India: formerly part of the province of Bengal. 33,805 sq. mi. (87,555 sq. km). Capital: Calcutta. Compare Bengal (def 1).
- wholegrains — Wholegrains are the grains of cereals such as wheat and maize that have not been processed.
- wholesaling — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
- wineglasses — Plural form of wineglass.
- wranglesome — Inclined to wrangle or squabble; quarrelsome.
- xenoglossia — an ability claimed by some mediums, clairvoyants, etc, to speak a language with which they are unfamiliar
- xylophagous — Feeding on wood. (of insects etc.).
- yugoslavian — formerly, a federal republic in S Europe: since 1992 comprised of Serbia and Montenegro; disbanded into independent countries in 2006. 39,449 sq. mi. (102,173 sq. km). Capital: Belgrade.
- zygodactyls — Plural form of zygodactyl.