10-letter words containing a, l, i, g, t
- obligation — something by which a person is bound or obliged to do certain things, and which arises out of a sense of duty or results from custom, law, etc.
- obligative — implying or involving obligation: an obligative commitment.
- obligators — Plural form of obligator.
- obligatory — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- odontalgia — pain in a tooth; toothache.
- osculating — Present participle of osculate.
- otological — the science of the ear and its diseases.
- outlasting — Present participle of outlast.
- outleaping — Present participle of outleap.
- outplaying — Present participle of outplay.
- outsailing — Present participle of outsail.
- palagonite — a yellow basaltic glass
- party girl — a girl or woman who is interested in little else besides attending parties.
- pathologic — of or relating to pathology.
- patrolling — (of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.
- phalangist — a member of a Lebanese Christian paramilitary organization founded in 1936 and originally based on similar ideas to the fascist Falange in Spain
- phlegmatic — not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish.
- pilot flag — the flag symbolizing the letter G in the International Code of Signals, flown by itself to request a pilot from a pilot service: a flag of three yellow and three blue vertical stripes.
- pixelating — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- plagiarist — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
- plastering — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- plateauing — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- playacting — to engage in make-believe.
- playwright — a writer of plays; dramatist.
- poignantly — keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret.
- polygamist — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- pregenital — of, relating to, or noting reproduction.
- proctalgia — neural pain in the rectum or anus
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- ragmatical — wild, rowdy, riotous
- rattlingly — in a way that rattles
- 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.
- regularity — usual; normal; customary: to put something in its regular place.
- 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.
- 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.
- replanting — to plant again.
- right-laid — noting a rope, strand, etc., laid in a right-handed, or clockwise, direction as one looks away along it (opposed to left-laid).
- saint gall — a canton in NE Switzerland. 777 sq. mi. (2010 sq. km).
- salivating — to produce saliva.
- saltigrade — moving by leaping.
- salting-in — Salting-in is the effect when adding a salt to a solvent containing an organic solute increases the solubility of that solute.
- salzgitter — a city in Lower Saxony, in central Germany, SE of Hanover.
- scantlings — a timber of relatively slight width and thickness, as a stud or rafter in a house frame.
- signalment — a detailed description, especially of distinctive features, of a person for identification, usually for police purposes.
- single tax — a tax, as on land, that constitutes the sole source of public revenue.
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.