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11-letter words containing g, a, i, t, n

  • 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.
  • stravaiging — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
  • streamingly — in a streaming manner
  • string band — a band consisting of stringed instruments
  • string bass — double bass.
  • string bean — any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
  • stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
  • subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
  • supplanting — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
  • suppurating — to produce or discharge pus, as a wound; maturate.
  • surfcasting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
  • surrogation — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
  • swing state — a state of the U.S. in which the Democratic and Republican candidates both have a good chance of winning and that is considered key to the outcome of a presidential election: the swing states of Ohio and Indiana.
  • 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.
  • tailhopping — the act of hopping to lift the tails of the skis off the ground while flexing the knees into a crouching position
  • taking lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
  • taletelling — the act of telling stories
  • tanganyikan — a former country in E Africa: formed the larger part of German East Africa; British trusteeship (Tanganyika Territory) 1946–61; became independent 1961; now the mainland part of Tanzania. 361,800 sq. mi. (937,062 sq. km).
  • tangibility — capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
  • tangle with — get involved with
  • tank engine — locomotive train
  • tankbusting — the practice of destroying tanks
  • tanning bed — a boxlike bed having a hinged cover and equipped with sunlamps to produce a suntan.
  • tantalising — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
  • tantalizing — having or exhibiting something that provokes or arouses expectation, interest, or desire, especially that which remains unobtainable or beyond one's reach: a tantalizing taste of success.
  • tap dancing — dancing with clicking shoes
  • tax sharing — revenue sharing.
  • tearjerking — a pathetic story, play, movie, or the like; an excessively sentimental tale.
  • teetotaling — of or relating to, advocating, or pledged to total abstinence from intoxicating drink.
  • telebanking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services by means of a computer network
  • tengri khan — a mountain in central Asia, on the boundary between Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) and China: highest peak of the Tien Shan Mountains. About 23,950 feet (7300 meters).
  • teratogenic — a drug or other substance capable of interfering with the development of a fetus, causing birth defects.
  • terminating — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
  • tetragynian — related to or belonging to the Tetragynia class of plants having four pistils
  • thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
  • theogonical — of or relating to theogony
  • there again — on second thoughts, however
  • thingamabob — thingamajig.
  • thingamajig — a gadget or other thing for which the speaker does not know or has forgotten the name.
  • thingumabob — thingamajig.
  • think again — reconsider sth
  • threatening — tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures.
  • thwartingly — in a thwarting manner; obstructingly
  • 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.
  • tiger prawn — a large edible prawn of the genus Penaeus with dark bands across the body, fished commercially in the Indian and Pacific oceans
  • tiger snake — either of two highly venomous snakes, Notechis scutatus and N. ater, of Australia and Tasmania, that grow to a length of 5 feet (1.5 meters).
  • time signal — a signal sent electrically or by radio to indicate a precise moment of time as a means of checking or regulating timepieces.
  • time-saving — (of methods, devices, etc.) reducing the time spent or required to do something.
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