10-letter words containing a, l, r, g
- 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).
- ring false — to give the impression of being false
- ring flash — a type of electronic flash in which the light source is arranged in a ring around the lens in order to produce a light without shadows
- ringleader — a person who leads others, especially in opposition to authority, law, etc.: a ringleader of revolutionary activities.
- rogue male — a conventionally masculine man who is a cold-hearted loner
- rosemaling — decorative work of Norwegian folk origin consisting of painted or carved floral designs, as on furniture or woodwork.
- ruby glass — glass having a red color resulting from the addition of gold, copper, or selenium to the batch.
- salt grass — any of several grasses, as Distichlis spicata, that grow in salt marshes or meadows or in alkali soil.
- 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.
- scrabbling — to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.
- scrambling — motocross, off-road biking
- segregable — to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
- seignorial — of or relating to a seignior.
- self-guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- shangri la — an imaginary paradise on earth, especially a remote and exotic utopia.
- shangri-la — an imaginary paradise on earth, especially a remote and exotic utopia.
- shear legs — shear (def 16).
- sigillarid — a fossilized, tree-like plant of the genus Sigillaria
- 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.
- singularly — extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
- skylarking — a brown-speckled European lark, Alauda arvensis, famed for its melodious song.
- slate-grey — of a dark grey colour
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- slaughtery — a slaughterhouse
- sluggardly — like or befitting a sluggard; slothful; lazy.
- spark plug — a device designed to fit in each cylinder of a gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and to produce the electric spark for igniting the mixture of gasoline and air.
- spiralling — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- springdale — a city in NW Arkansas.
- springhalt — stringhalt.
- springtail — any of numerous minute, wingless primitive insects of the order Collembola, most possessing a special abdominal appendage for jumping that allows for the nearly perpetual springing pattern characteristic of the group.
- square leg — the position of a fielder on the left of the batsman and almost on the opposite side of the wicket.
- stalingrad — former name of Volgograd.
- stallenger — a trader who was required to pay a fee in order to sell goods at a market stall, not being a member of the local merchants' guild or corporation
- startingly — in sudden brief snatches, or with a sudden nervous jump or start
- starveling — a person, animal, or plant that is starving.
- steel gray — dark metallic gray with a bluish tinge.
- sternalgia — pain occurring in or around the sternum
- sternalgic — relating to or having sternalgia
- stragglers — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- straggling — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- stranglers — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- strangling — an incident in which someone is strangled
- 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.
- stringhalt — a nerve disorder in horses, causing exaggerated flexing movements of the hind legs in walking.
- stylograph — a fountain pen in which the writing point is a fine, hollow tube instead of a nib.
- subangular — fairly angular