11-letter words containing e, p, i, g, n, t
- pirouetting — a whirling about on one foot or on the points of the toes, as in ballet dancing.
- plantigrade — walking on the whole sole of the foot, as humans, and bears.
- platemaking — the act of making plates
- polygenetic — Biology. relating to or exhibiting polygenesis.
- port gentil — a seaport in W Gabon.
- port-gentil — a seaport in W Gabon.
- postediting — the act of editing after a piece of writing has been produced or printed by a machine
- postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
- potteringly — in a pottering fashion, slowly
- pre-testing — an advance or preliminary testing or trial, as of a new product.
- preexisting — to exist beforehand.
- preignition — ignition of the charge in an internal-combustion engine earlier in the cycle than is compatible with proper operation.
- pretraining — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
- progenitive — capable of having offspring; reproductive.
- progeniture — procreation
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- proselyting — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- prospecting — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
- pyrogenetic — heat-producing
- recarpeting — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- repentingly — in a repenting fashion; repentantly
- sempstering — the profession of being a tailor
- sign-posted — a post bearing a sign that gives information or guidance.
- 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-step — to perform a single instruction on (a program), generally under the control of a debug program
- sopping wet — soaked, dripping
- spaghettini — pasta in the form of long thin strings
- speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- spirketting — deck planking near the bulwarks
- spitsbergen — a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, N of and belonging to Norway. 24,293 sq. mi. (62,920 sq. km).
- spitzbergen — a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, N of and belonging to Norway. 24,293 sq. mi. (62,920 sq. km).
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- splintering — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- spring rate — The spring rate is a measurement of the amount of force needed to compress a spring a particular distance.
- spring tide — the large rise and fall of the tide at or soon after the new or the full moon.
- springsteen — Bruce. born 1949, US rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His albums include Born to Run (1975), Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978), Born in the USA (1984), The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995), The Rising (2002), Magic (2007), and Wrecking Ball (2012)
- springwater — water from a spring
- stepdancing — a dance emphasizing footwork or certain steps instead of other bodily gestures or movement
- stepsibling — a stepbrother or stepsister.
- 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.
- stringpiece — a long, usually horizontal piece of timber, beam, etc., for strengthening, connecting, or supporting a framework.
- superstring — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.
- telephoning — an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device.
- telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- temporizing — an agreement for a limited period of time
- tiger prawn — a large edible prawn of the genus Penaeus with dark bands across the body, fished commercially in the Indian and Pacific oceans
- timekeeping — a person or thing that keeps time.
- topdressing — an application of fertiliser to soil
- trypsinogen — a precursor of trypsin that is secreted by the pancreas and is activated to trypsin in the small intestine.