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11-letter words containing g, e, t, n

  • bed-wetting — the act or habit of involuntarily urinating in bed
  • bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
  • bedding out — the process of planting out young flowering plants in beds
  • befittingly — suitable; proper; becoming: planned with a befitting sense of majesty.
  • beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
  • belligerent — A belligerent person is hostile and aggressive.
  • benefitting — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
  • benightment — the state of being in physical, moral, or intellectual darkness
  • 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.
  • bering time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
  • besiegement — the state of being besieged
  • betting man — a person who is in the habit of placing bets
  • betting tax — a tax on gambling
  • binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
  • biogenetics — the branch of biology concerned with altering the genomes of living organisms
  • blacktongue — canine pellagra.
  • blanket bog — a very acid peat bog, low in nutrients, extending widely over a flat terrain, found in cold wet climates
  • blind tiger — speak-easy
  • bootlegging — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
  • brent goose — a small goose, Branta bernicla, that has a dark grey plumage and short neck and occurs in most northern coastal regions
  • bright-line — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
  • browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
  • bss segment — Block Started by Symbol
  • budget plan — the planning of one's spending
  • bull tongue — a heavy plough used in growing cotton, having an almost vertical mouldboard
  • bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
  • cabbagetown — a former slum area of Toronto, now known for its Victorian architecture and thriving arts community
  • calf-length — Calf-length skirts, dresses, and coats come to halfway between your knees and ankles.
  • calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
  • candlelight — Candlelight is the light that a candle produces.
  • care-taking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
  • cartelizing — Present participle of cartelize.
  • castiglione — Count Baldassare (baldasˈsaːre). 1478–1529, Italian diplomat and writer, noted particularly for his dialogue on ideal courtly life, Il Libro del Cortegiano (The Courtier) (1528)
  • catagenesis — the retrogressive evolution of a species. Compare anagenesis (def 1).
  • catechising — Present participle of catechise.
  • catechizing — Present participle of catechize.
  • cauterizing — Present participle of cauterize.
  • celebrating — Present participle of celebrate.
  • centigramme — Alternative spelling of centigram.
  • centimorgan — a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency
  • centrifugal — acting, moving, or tending to move away from a centre
  • centrifuged — an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
  • centrifuges — Plural form of centrifuge.
  • cerebrating — Present participle of cerebrate.
  • chaetognath — any small wormlike marine invertebrate of the phylum Chaetognatha, including the arrowworms, having a coelom and a ring of bristles around the mouth
  • chain grate — a type of mechanical stoker for a furnace, in which the grate consists of an endless chain that draws the solid fuel into the furnace as it rotates
  • change feet — to put on different shoes, boots, etc
  • checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
  • chinese tag — a variety of the game of tag in which the tagged player must hold one hand on the part of the body where he or she was tagged.
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