11-letter words containing a, g, s, i
- string bean — any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
- stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
- strippagram — a greetings message delivered by a stripper who does a striptease on delivery
- sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
- subgingival — being or occurring under the gums; especially, being or occurring in the crevice between the gum margin and the neck or root of a tooth.
- subimaginal — of or relating to subimago
- subirrigate — to irrigate beneath the surface of the ground, as with water passing through a system of underground porous pipes or transmitted through the subsoil from ditches, etc.
- subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
- submarginal — Biology. near the margin.
- submarining — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
- subpoenaing — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- suffumigate — to fumigate from below; apply fumes or smoke to.
- súgán chair — a chair with a seat made from woven súgáns
- sugar basin — sugar bowl.
- supplanting — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- suppurating — to produce or discharge pus, as a wound; maturate.
- surfcasting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- surrogation — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
- swan-upping — the taking up of young swans to mark them with nicks on the beak for identification.
- swearing in — an official ceremony where a person takes an oath of office, allegiance, etc.
- swearing-in — an official ceremony where a person takes an oath of office, allegiance, etc.
- swing space — a temporary working environment, used esp while renovations are being carried out
- swing state — a state of the U.S. in which the Democratic and Republican candidates both have a good chance of winning and that is considered key to the outcome of a presidential election: the swing states of Ohio and Indiana.
- swiss guard — a member of a corps of bodyguards protecting the pope, with membership restricted to natives of Switzerland.
- switchgrass — a North American prairie grass
- syntagmatic — pertaining to a relationship among linguistic elements that occur sequentially in the chain of speech or writing, as the relationship between the sun and is shining or the and sun in the sentence The sun is shining.
- 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.
- tankbusting — the practice of destroying tanks
- 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.
- tax sharing — revenue sharing.
- thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
- thigmotaxis — movement of an organism toward or away from any object that provides a mechanical stimulus.
- tiger shark — a large shark, Galeocerdo cuvieri, inhabiting warm seas, noted for its voracious habits.
- tiger snake — either of two highly venomous snakes, Notechis scutatus and N. ater, of Australia and Tasmania, that grow to a length of 5 feet (1.5 meters).
- tight-arsed — inhibited or conservative in attitude or behaviour
- tight-assed — rigidly self-controlled, inhibited, or conservative in attitude.
- time signal — a signal sent electrically or by radio to indicate a precise moment of time as a means of checking or regulating timepieces.
- time-saving — (of methods, devices, etc.) reducing the time spent or required to do something.
- torsiograph — a graph indicating vibrating movements
- townscaping — the act of designing a town
- transecting — to cut across; dissect transversely.
- transfigure — to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
- transfixing — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- transgenics — (used with a singular verb) the branch of biology concerned with the transfer of genes to other species.
- transpiring — to occur; happen; take place.
- transposing — the act of transposing
- tritagonist — (in ancient Greece) the third member of an acting troupe, which always consisted of three actors. Compare protagonist (def 4), deuteragonist.
- tselinograd — a former name of Akmola.