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11-letter words containing g, a, c

  • spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
  • sparagmatic — denoting a type of Precambrian rock found in Scandinavia
  • specialogue — a mail-order catalogue aimed at a specific group of customers
  • spectrogram — a representation or photograph of a spectrum.
  • speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • sphragistic — of or relating to seals or signet rings.
  • sponge cake — a light, sweet cake made with a comparatively large proportion of eggs but no shortening.
  • stage brace — a brace for supporting upright pieces of theatrical scenery.
  • stage screw — a large, tapered screw fitted with a handle, used to secure braces for scenery to the floor of a stage.
  • stagestruck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
  • steatopygic — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
  • step change — A step change is a sudden or major change in the way that something happens or the way that someone behaves.
  • stepdancing — a dance emphasizing footwork or certain steps instead of other bodily gestures or movement
  • stigmatical — Also, stigmatical. pertaining to a stigma, mark, spot, or the like.
  • stock guard — a barrier for keeping cattle and other animals off the tracks or right of way.
  • stocktaking — the examination or counting over of materials or goods on hand, as in a stockroom or store.
  • strategical — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
  • subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
  • súgán chair — a chair with a seat made from woven súgáns
  • sugar candy — large crystals of sugar formed by suspending strings in a strong sugar solution that hardens on the strings, used chiefly for sweetening coffee
  • sugar-candy — excessively sweet; saccharine: sugar-candy stories in family magazines.
  • sugar-cured — (especially of ham or bacon) cured in a mixture of sugar, salt, and sodium nitrate or sodium nitrite.
  • sugarcoated — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
  • superagency — a very large agency, especially a large government agency that oversees smaller ones.
  • supercharge — to charge with an abundant or excessive amount, as of energy, emotion, or tension.
  • surfcasting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
  • swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
  • swing space — a temporary working environment, used esp while renovations are being carried out
  • switchgrass — a North American prairie grass
  • syntagmatic — pertaining to a relationship among linguistic elements that occur sequentially in the chain of speech or writing, as the relationship between the sun and is shining or the and sun in the sentence The sun is shining.
  • tachygraphy — shorthand, especially the ancient Greek and Roman handwriting used for rapid stenography and writing.
  • take charge — able or seemingly able to take charge: She is a take-charge management type.
  • take-charge — able or seemingly able to take charge: She is a take-charge management type.
  • tap dancing — dancing with clicking shoes
  • tegucigalpa — a republic in NE Central America. 43,277 sq. mi. (112,087 sq. km). Capital: Tegucigalpa.
  • telecottage — a communal workplace, situated in a rural area, which contains computers and other facilities linked into a communications network, thereby enabling people to work from remote locations
  • telegraphic — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • teratogenic — a drug or other substance capable of interfering with the development of a fetus, causing birth defects.
  • the gracchi — the brothers Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus, Roman tribunes and reformers
  • the ice age — the Pleistocene Epoch
  • theogonical — of or relating to theogony
  • theological — of, relating to, or involved with theology: a theological student.
  • thoughtcast — a mode of thought
  • 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.
  • tiglic acid — a slightly water-soluble, poisonous compound, C 5 H 8 O 2 , derived from croton oil and occurring as a thick, syrupy liquid or in colorless crystals.
  • toll charge — traffic fee payable on a road
  • tomographic — relating to tomography
  • topographic — the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
  • touring car — an open automobile designed for five or more passengers.
  • townscaping — the act of designing a town
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