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

  • ring a bell — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
  • ring bearer — wedding attendant who carries ring
  • ring magnet — a ring-shaped permanent magnet.
  • ring nebula — a planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra that has a ringlike appearance surrounding its central star.
  • ring-tailed — having the tail ringed with alternating colors, as a raccoon.
  • ringed seal — an Arctic seal, Phoca hispida, having irregular, pale, ring-shaped markings around its body.
  • ringstraked — ring-streaked.
  • riomaggiore — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
  • ripplegrass — English plantain.
  • road bridge — a bridge for road traffic
  • rock garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
  • rock-garden — a garden on rocky ground or among rocks, for the growing of alpine or other plants.
  • rod bearing — a bearing in the metal shaft that transmits power in axial reciprocating motion
  • rogue state — When politicians or journalists talk about a rogue state, they mean a country that they regard as a threat to their own country's security, for example because it supports terrorism.
  • roller gate — (on certain dams) a cylindrical gate that rises and falls by rotating against inclined racks.
  • roof garden — a garden on the flat roof of a house or other building.
  • ropedancing — the act of dancing on a rope
  • rose garden — where roses are grown
  • rotogravure — a photomechanical process by which pictures, typeset matter, etc., are printed from an intaglio copper cylinder.
  • rough paper — paper that is used for writing a rough copy
  • rough trade — male homosexual prostitution, especially involving brutality or sadism.
  • round angle — perigon.
  • royal gorge — a gorge of the Arkansas River in S central Colorado. 10 miles (16 km) long; up to 1000 feet (305 meters) deep.
  • rubber game — any game played to break a tie resulting when each side has won the same number of games
  • rugosa rose — a shrub, Rosa rugosa, having densely bristled stems, wrinkled leaves, and fragrant red or white flowers.
  • rummage out — to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), especially by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.
  • sage grouse — a large grouse, Centrocercus urophasianus, of the sagebrush regions of western North America, having plumage of gray, buff, and black.
  • salad green — a leafy green vegetable, as lettuce, watercress, or escarole, served raw as or in a salad.
  • san gabriel — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • san gennaroSan [san;; Italian sahn] /sæn;; Italian sɑn/ (Show IPA), Januarius.
  • sand grouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
  • sand-groper — a native of the arid region of Western Australia.
  • saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
  • scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
  • scaremonger — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
  • scatter rug — a small rug, placed on the floor in front of a chair, under a table, etc.
  • scatter-gun — a shotgun
  • scattergood — a spendthrift.
  • scattergram — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
  • scatterling — a person with no fixed home; a wanderer; a vagabond
  • scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • screamingly — If you say that something is, for example, screamingly funny or screamingly boring, you mean that it is extremely funny or extremely boring.
  • screw auger — an auger having a helical outer surface suggesting a screw thread.
  • scsi target — (hardware)   A SCSI device that executes a command from a SCSI initiator to perform some task. Typically the target is a SCSI peripheral device but the host adapter can also be a target.
  • searchingly — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
  • searchlight — a device, usually consisting of a light and reflector, for throwing a beam of light in any direction.
  • 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.
  • segregative — to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
  • seigneurial — a lord, especially a feudal lord.
  • seigniorage — something claimed by a sovereign or superior as a prerogative.
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