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11-letter words containing a, r, i, g

  • strain gage — A strain gage is a sensor for measuring the amount of strain on a solid surface.
  • strap hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • strap-hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • strategical — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
  • strategized — to make up or determine strategy; plan.
  • stravaiging — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
  • strawweight — a boxer of the lightest competitive class, especially a boxer weighing up to 104 pounds (47.2 kg).
  • streamingly — in a streaming manner
  • string band — a band consisting of stringed instruments
  • string bass — double bass.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
  • súgán chair — a chair with a seat made from woven súgáns
  • sugar basin — sugar bowl.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • take fright — be scared off
  • tax sharing — revenue sharing.
  • tearjerking — a pathetic story, play, movie, or the like; an excessively sentimental tale.
  • telegraphic — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • tengri khan — a mountain in central Asia, on the boundary between Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) and China: highest peak of the Tien Shan Mountains. About 23,950 feet (7300 meters).
  • teratogenic — a drug or other substance capable of interfering with the development of a fetus, causing birth defects.
  • terminating — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
  • tetragynian — related to or belonging to the Tetragynia class of plants having four pistils
  • tetraplegia — quadriplegia.
  • thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
  • the giraffe — the constellation Camelopardalis
  • the gracchi — the brothers Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus, Roman tribunes and reformers
  • there again — on second thoughts, however
  • third grade — (in the US) the third year of school, when children are eight or nine years old
  • threatening — tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures.
  • thwartingly — in a thwarting manner; obstructingly
  • ticonderoga — a village in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: site of French fort captured by the English 1759 and by Americans under Ethan Allen 1775.
  • tiger prawn — a large edible prawn of the genus Penaeus with dark bands across the body, fished commercially in the Indian and Pacific oceans
  • 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
  • timing gear — (in an internal-combustion engine) the drive between the crankshaft and the camshaft, usually giving a ratio of 2 : 1
  • tomographic — relating to tomography
  • top-ranking — A top-ranking person is someone who has a very high rank or status in a particular organization or field of activity.
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