11-letter words containing e, l, i, g
- orange lily — a bulbous lily, Lilium bulbiferum, of the mountainous regions of southern Europe, having erect, crimson-spotted, orange flowers.
- orangeville — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- organizable — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- osteologist — the branch of anatomy dealing with the skeleton.
- outsleeping — Present participle of outsleep.
- overblowing — A technique for playing a wind instrument so as to produce overtones.
- overflowing — to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
- overindulge — eat, do to excess
- overlapping — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- overloading — (language) (Or "Operator overloading"). Use of a single symbol to represent operators with different argument types, e.g. "-", used either, as a monadic operator to negate an expression, or as a dyadic operator to return the difference between two expressions. Another example is "+" used to add either integers or floating-point numbers. Overloading is also known as ad-hoc polymorphism. User-defined operator overloading is provided by several modern programming languages, e.g. C++'s class system and the functional programming language Haskell's type classes. Ad-hoc polymorphism (better described as overloading) is the ability to use the same syntax for objects of different types, e.g. "+" for addition of reals and integers or "-" for unary negation or diadic subtraction. Parametric polymorphism allows the same object code for a function to handle arguments of many types but overloading only reuses syntax and requires different code to handle different types.
- overlocking — the act of oversewing a hem or fabric edge to prevent fraying
- overlooking — to fail to notice, perceive, or consider: to overlook a misspelled word.
- palletising — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
- palsgravine — the wife or widow of a palsgrave.
- panegyrical — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
- paralleling — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
- parcel-gilt — the gilding of only some areas or ornaments of a piece of furniture.
- pathologies — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
- pathologize — to represent (something) as a disease
- pearly king — the male London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
- pedagogical — of or relating to a pedagogue or pedagogy.
- pedological — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.
- pelagianism — a follower of Pelagius, who denied original sin and believed in freedom of the will.
- pelagius ii — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).
- pencil gate — any of a large number of narrow gates used for rapid distribution of metal in large castings.
- penological — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- periglacial — occurring or operating adjacent to the margin of a glacier.
- perissology — the use of a superfluity of words; an expression of something using more words than necessary
- pestologist — a person who analyses and researches pests and how to get rid of them
- pigeon loft — a raised shelter or building where pigeons are kept
- pigeon milk — crop milk.
- pigeon-hole — one of a series of small, open compartments, as in a desk, cabinet, or the like, used for filing or sorting papers, letters, etc.
- pigeonholer — someone who likes to pigeonhole people or things
- pilferingly — in the manner of a pilferer
- pilgrimager — a pilgrim
- pinwheeling — a child's toy consisting of a wheel or leaflike curls of paper or plastic loosely attached by a pin to a stick, designed to revolve when blown by or as by the wind.
- plagiarised — to take and use by plagiarism.
- plagiarizer — to take and use by plagiarism.
- plagioclase — any of the feldspar minerals varying in composition from acidic albite, NaAlSi 3 O 8 , to basic anorthite, CaAl 2 Si 2 O 8 , found in most igneous rocks: shows twinning striations on good cleavage surfaces.
- plagiostome — (of fish) belonging to the genus Plagiostomi, which includes sharks and rays, characterized by a transverse mouth with the jaw suspended from the skull
- plantigrade — walking on the whole sole of the foot, as humans, and bears.
- plasminogen — the blood substance that when activated forms plasmin.
- platemaking — the act of making plates
- plenishings — furnishings or equipment
- plumigerous — wearing or possessing feathers
- poltergeist — a ghost or spirit supposed to manifest its presence by noises, knockings, etc.
- polygenesis — origin from more than one ancestral species or line.
- polygenetic — Biology. relating to or exhibiting polygenesis.
- ponderingly — in a pondering manner