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11-letter words containing e, g, i

  • bright-eyed — eager; fresh and enthusiastic
  • bright-line — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
  • brisingamen — the magic necklace worn by Freya.
  • browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
  • bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
  • bullfighter — A bullfighter is the person who tries to injure or kill the bull in a bullfight.
  • bump uglies — to have sexual intercourse
  • cacogenesis — (medicine) A morbid, monstrous, or pathological growth or product; an abnormality in structure; a monstrosity.
  • cakewalking — Present participle of cakewalk.
  • calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
  • calendaring — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
  • calendering — a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.
  • calligramme — words arranged to form a picture
  • campaigners — Plural form of campaigner.
  • candlelight — Candlelight is the light that a candle produces.
  • caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
  • cape pigeon — a species of seagoing petrel, Daption capensis, with characteristic white wing patches: a common winter visitor off the coasts of southern Africa: family Diomedeidae
  • capping fee — a fee paid for a day of hunting with an association of hunters of which one is not a member.
  • carcinogens — Plural form of carcinogen.
  • cardiogenic — originating in the heart, or resulting from a disorder of the heart
  • care-taking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
  • career girl — a woman whose main priority in life is achieving success in her career or profession
  • caressingly — In a caressing manner; soothingly.
  • cargo liner — a cargo ship that sails regularly between designated ports according to a published schedule.
  • carriageway — A carriageway is one side of a road on which traffic travelling in opposite directions is separated by a barrier.
  • carrier bag — A carrier bag is a bag made of plastic or paper which has handles and which you carry shopping in.
  • cartelizing — Present participle of cartelize.
  • case ending — a suffix on an inflected noun, pronoun, or adjective that indicates its grammatical function.
  • casein glue — a glue made from casein, used for plywood, cabinetwork, etc.
  • caseinogens — Plural form of caseinogen.
  • casing shoe — A casing shoe is the bottom of the casing string, including the cement around it.
  • castiglione — Count Baldassare (baldasˈsaːre). 1478–1529, Italian diplomat and writer, noted particularly for his dialogue on ideal courtly life, Il Libro del Cortegiano (The Courtier) (1528)
  • catagenesis — the retrogressive evolution of a species. Compare anagenesis (def 1).
  • cataloguize — to make a list of; catalogue
  • catchweight — of or relating to a contest in which normal weight categories have been waived by agreement
  • catechising — Present participle of catechise.
  • catechizing — Present participle of catechize.
  • categorical — If you are categorical about something, you state your views very definitely and firmly.
  • categorised — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • categorizes — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • cattle grid — A cattle grid is a set of metal bars in the surface of a road which prevents cattle and sheep from walking along the road, but allows people and vehicles to pass.
  • cauligenous — originating or protruding from the stem of a plant
  • cauterizing — Present participle of cauterize.
  • cavaliering — a horseman, especially a mounted soldier; knight.
  • ceiling fan — a fan fitted to the ceiling
  • celebrating — Present participle of celebrate.
  • cenogenesis — the development of structures in the embryonic or larval stage of an organism that are adaptive and do not appear in the evolutionary history of its group
  • centigramme — Alternative spelling of centigram.
  • centimorgan — a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency
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