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

  • 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.
  • suffumigate — to fumigate from below; apply fumes or smoke to.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • tankbusting — the practice of destroying tanks
  • 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.
  • tautologism — the use of tautology.
  • tax sharing — revenue sharing.
  • thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
  • thigmotaxis — movement of an organism toward or away from any object that provides a mechanical stimulus.
  • 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).
  • tight-arsed — inhibited or conservative in attitude or behaviour
  • tight-assed — rigidly self-controlled, inhibited, or conservative in attitude.
  • 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.
  • torsiograph — a graph indicating vibrating movements
  • townscaping — the act of designing a town
  • transecting — to cut across; dissect transversely.
  • transfigure — to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
  • transfixing — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
  • transgenics — (used with a singular verb) the branch of biology concerned with the transfer of genes to other species.
  • transpiring — to occur; happen; take place.
  • transposing — the act of transposing
  • tritagonist — (in ancient Greece) the third member of an acting troupe, which always consisted of three actors. Compare protagonist (def 4), deuteragonist.
  • tselinograd — a former name of Akmola.
  • turn signal — A car's turn signals are the flashing lights that tell you it is going to turn left or right.
  • typecasting — the practice of casting an actor repeatedly in the same kind of role, esp because of his or physical appearance or previous success in such roles
  • unassisting — providing no help or assistance
  • unsatiating — to supply with anything to excess, so as to disgust or weary; surfeit.
  • unstartling — not startling
  • unstrategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
  • vanguardist — the beliefs and activities of persons who consider themselves to be leaders in a particular field or school of thought.
  • vestigially — of, relating to, or of the nature of a vestige: a vestigial tail.
  • vigilantism — a member of a vigilance committee.
  • virginalist — Often, virginals. a rectangular harpsichord with the strings stretched parallel to the keyboard, the earlier types placed on a table: popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.
  • vital signs — pulse, temperature, breathing, etc.
  • vulgarities — the state or quality of being vulgar: the vulgarity of his remark.
  • wainscoting — wood, especially oak and usually in the form of paneling, for lining interior walls.
  • wainwrights — Plural form of wainwright.
  • waitressing — a woman who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
  • warfighters — Plural form of warfighter.
  • watchspring — the main spring inside a watch
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