11-letter words containing a, n, g, s, t
- ratings war — a situation in which each of two or more channels makes a particular effort to attract more viewers or listeners than its rival
- ray casting — (graphics) A simplified form of ray tracing. A ray is fired from each pixel in the view plane, and information is accumulated from all the voxels in the volume data it intersects. Each voxel is first given an associated colour and opacity. The ray is sampled at a fixed number of evenly spaced locations and the colour and opacity are trilinearly interpolated from the eight nearest voxels. These are then composed linearly back to front to give a single colour for the pixel. Ray casting was invented by John Carmack for the game Wolfenstein 3D. It is faster and lower quality than ray tracing, and is ideal for interactive applications. It parallelises well, although random access is needed to the voxels.
- redesignate — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- regimentals — of or relating to a regiment.
- resignation — the act of resigning.
- ringstraked — ring-streaked.
- rising star — up-and-coming performer
- risk-taking — courting danger or loss
- rusticating — to go to the country.
- sagittarian — a person born under Sagittarius, the ninth sign of the zodiac; a Sagittarius.
- sailboating — the sport of using a sailing boat
- salpingitis — inflammation of a salpinx.
- salting out — the addition of salt to a mixture to precipitate proteins, soaps, and other simple organic compounds.
- salting-out — Salting-out is the effect when adding a salt to a solvent containing an organic solute reduces the solubility of that solute.
- samuel ting — Samuel C(hao) C(hung) [chou choo ng] /tʃaʊ tʃʊŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1936, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1976.
- sanctioning — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- satin glass — an American art glassware having colored glass set into indentations in a thickness of opaque glass, the whole covered with clear glass and etched slightly with acid.
- satisficing — the act of satisficing
- scambaiting — the practice of pretending to fall for fraudulent online schemes in order to waste the time of the perpetrators
- scatter-gun — a shotgun
- scatterling — a person with no fixed home; a wanderer; a vagabond
- scent gland — any of various specialized skin glands, occurring in many kinds of animals, that emit an odor commonly functioning as a social or sexual signal or a defensive weapon.
- sea bathing — the activity of swimming in the sea
- segregation — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
- self-acting — acting by itself; automatic.
- self-hating — harbouring feelings of self-hatred
- set against — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- short-range — having a limited extent, as in distance or time: a short-range shot; a short-range plan.
- shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
- sigillation — the act of sealing
- signatories — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
- significant — important; of consequence.
- significate — something signified
- singability — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
- single malt — a type of whisky that is made at a single distillery and from one type of malted grain
- single tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
- single-malt — (of whiskey, especially Scotch) made from unblended malt whiskey distilled at one distillery.
- singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- singularist — someone who advocates singularism
- singularity — the state, fact, or quality of being singular.
- singulative — a grammatical form or construction that expresses a singular entity or indicates that an individual is singled out from a group, especially as opposed to a collective noun, as snowflake as opposed to snow.
- slag cement — a cement composed of about 80 percent granulated slag and about 20 percent hydrated lime.
- slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
- slow-acting — working or acting slowly, not immediately
- snatchingly — in a snatching manner
- somatogenic — developing from somatic cells.
- soothsaying — the practice or art of foretelling events.
- sound stage — a large, soundproof studio used for filming motion pictures.
- spaghettini — pasta in the form of long thin strings
- spartanburg — a city in NW South Carolina.