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10-letter words containing a, l, e, g, r, i

  • prevailing — predominant: prevailing winds.
  • prize flag — a flag hoisted by a yacht upon learning that it has won a prize in a race.
  • profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
  • quarreling — an angry dispute or altercation; a disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations.
  • range line — (in U.S. public-land surveys) one of two parallel lines running north and south that define the east and west borders of a township. Compare township (def 2), township line.
  • rappelling — (in mountaineering) the act or method of moving down a steep incline or past an overhang by means of a double rope secured above and placed around the body, usually under the left thigh and over the right shoulder, and paid out gradually in the descent.
  • re-hauling — to pull or draw with force; move by drawing; drag: They hauled the boat up onto the beach.
  • rear light — vehicle's tail or back light
  • regelation — a phenomenon in which the freezing point of water is lowered by the application of pressure; the melting and refreezing of ice, at constant temperature, caused by varying the pressure.
  • regimental — of or relating to a regiment.
  • regionally — of or relating to a region of considerable extent; not merely local: a regional meeting of the Boy Scouts.
  • regularise — to make regular.
  • regularity — usual; normal; customary: to put something in its regular place.
  • regularize — to make regular.
  • regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • regulative — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
  • rehandling — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
  • relabeling — a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.
  • relearning — to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience: to learn French; to learn to ski.
  • relegation — to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition: He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service.
  • relitigate — to make the subject of a lawsuit; contest at law.
  • replanning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • replanting — to plant again.
  • rigamarole — rigmarole.
  • ring false — to give the impression of being false
  • ringleader — a person who leads others, especially in opposition to authority, law, etc.: a ringleader of revolutionary activities.
  • rosemaling — decorative work of Norwegian folk origin consisting of painted or carved floral designs, as on furniture or woodwork.
  • saltigrade — moving by leaping.
  • salzgitter — a city in Lower Saxony, in central Germany, SE of Hanover.
  • sanderling — a common, small sandpiper, Calidris alba, inhabiting sandy beaches.
  • seignorial — of or relating to a seignior.
  • signal red — pimento (def 3).
  • silver age — Classical Mythology. the second of the four ages of humankind, inferior to the golden age but superior to the bronze age that followed: characterized by an increase of impiety and of human weakness.
  • slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
  • springdale — a city in NW Arkansas.
  • starveling — a person, animal, or plant that is starving.
  • sternalgia — pain occurring in or around the sternum
  • sternalgic — relating to or having sternalgia
  • streamling — a small stream
  • strigilate — an instrument with a curved blade, used especially by the ancient Greeks and Romans for scraping the skin at the bath and in the gymnasium.
  • sugarallie — liquorice
  • swinglebar — a whiffletree.
  • tiger balm — a mentholated ointment widely used as a panacea
  • trailering — the advertising of a film or television programme by means of trailers
  • travelling — to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey: to travel for pleasure.
  • treillaged — fitted with treillage, trelliswork
  • trigeminal — of or relating to the trigeminal nerve.
  • ulcerating — to form an ulcer; become ulcerous: His skin ulcerated after exposure to radioactive material.
  • unaltering — to make different in some particular, as size, style, course, or the like; modify: to alter a coat; to alter a will; to alter course.
  • unintegral — of, relating to, or belonging as a part of the whole; constituent or component: integral parts.
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