11-letter words containing g, e, t, a
- assuagement — to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
- assubjugate — to cause to be oppressed or overpowered
- asterisking — Present participle of asterisk.
- astringence — Alternative spelling of astringency.
- astringency — An astringent taste.
- astringents — Plural form of astringent.
- astrologers — Plural form of astrologer.
- at a glance — If you see something at a glance, you see or recognize it immediately, and without having to think or look carefully.
- at an angle — If something is at an angle, it is leaning in a particular direction so that it is not straight, horizontal, or vertical.
- atherogenic — causing atheroma
- attapulgite — a clay mineral, basic hydrous silicate of magnesium and aluminum, the active ingredient of fuller's earth.
- attempering — Present participle of attemper.
- attenuating — to weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value: to attenuate desire.
- augmentable — Capable of being augmented or increased.
- augmentless — (grammar) lacking augment.
- autoantigen — an antigen of one's own cells or cell products.
- autochanger — a device in a record player or CD player that enables a small stack of records or CDs to be dropped automatically onto the turntable or player tray one at a time and played separately
- autogenesis — spontaneous generation
- autogenetic — self-generated.
- autographed — Simple past tense and past participle of autograph.
- autogravure — a particular process of photographic engraving in which images are projected directly onto a plate
- autosuggest — to influence one's own thoughts or behaviour through methods other than conscious thought
- autozeroing — (electronics) A sampling technique that measures an offset from zero and later compensates by subtracting the difference.
- avant-garde — Avant-garde art, music, theatre, and literature is very modern and experimental.
- average out — If a set of numbers average out to a particular figure or if you average them out to that figure, their average is calculated to be that figure.
- backlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlight.
- banistering — Present participle of banister.
- banquetings — Plural form of banqueting.
- banteringly — in a bantering fashion
- bargemaster — the owner of a barge
- basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
- bath sponge — any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.
- baton rouge — the capital of Louisiana, in the SE part on the Mississippi River. Pop: 225 090 (2003 est)
- battery egg — an egg from a battery hen
- batting eye — the batter's visual appraisal of balls pitched toward home plate.
- battlewagon — a battleship
- battologize — to repeat (a word, phrase, mannerism, etc.) excessively.
- bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
- be great on — to be informed about
- bearbaiting — an old form of diversion in which dogs were made to torment a chained bear
- beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
- beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
- belligerati — intellectuals, such as writers, who advocate war or imperialism
- benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- bequeathing — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- betting man — a person who is in the habit of placing bets
- betting tax — a tax on gambling
- big-hearted — If you describe someone as big-hearted, you think they are kind and generous, and always willing to help people.
- bilge water — Nautical. bilge (def 1d).
- binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession