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11-letter words containing g, a, s, k, e

  • nonspeaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
  • oxygen mask — a masklike device placed or worn over the nose and mouth when inhaling supplementary oxygen from an attached tank.
  • parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
  • passagework — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
  • ringstraked — ring-streaked.
  • safekeeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
  • self-making — the act of a person or thing that makes: The making of a violin requires great skill.
  • sex linkage — an association between genes in sex chromosomes such that the characteristics determined by these genes appear more frequently in one sex than in the other.
  • sex-linkage — an association between genes in sex chromosomes such that the characteristics determined by these genes appear more frequently in one sex than in the other.
  • shake a leg — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
  • shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
  • shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
  • sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
  • singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • skilligalee — gruel
  • sockdolager — something unusually large, heavy, etc.
  • sponge cake — a light, sweet cake made with a comparatively large proportion of eggs but no shortening.
  • squeakingly — in a squeaking manner
  • stagestruck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
  • steelmaking — the manufacture of steel.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
  • tiger shark — a large shark, Galeocerdo cuvieri, inhabiting warm seas, noted for its voracious habits.
  • 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).
  • visbreaking — Visbreaking is thermal cracking, when the vacuum residue is less viscous and it can then be used to produce valuable products.
  • wages clerk — a worker in an office who calculates staff wages
  • waterskiing — Alternative spelling of water skiing.
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