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

  • tragicomedy — a dramatic or other literary composition combining elements of both tragedy and comedy.
  • travelogues — a lecture, slide show, or motion picture describing travels.
  • trimetrogon — of or relating to a system of aerial photography using three cameras, one pointed directly downward and the others at 60° to it.
  • trouser leg — the leg of a pair of trousers
  • troy weight — a system of weights in use for precious metals and gems (formerly also for bread, grain, etc.): 24 grains = 1 pennyweight (1.555 grams); 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce (31.103 grams); 12 ounces = 1 pound (0.373 kilogram). The grain, ounce, and pound are the same as in apothecaries' weight, the grain alone being the same as in avoirdupois weight. The troy pound is no longer a standard weight in Great Britain.
  • trypsinogen — a precursor of trypsin that is secreted by the pancreas and is activated to trypsin in the small intestine.
  • tselinograd — a former name of Akmola.
  • tug-of-love — Journalists sometimes use tug-of-love to refer to a situation in which the parents of a child are divorced and one of the parents tries to get the child from the other, for example by taking him or her illegally.
  • tumorigenic — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
  • turbocharge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
  • typedprolog — (language)   A strongly typed logic programming language.
  • typographer — a person skilled or engaged in typography.
  • unabrogated — not abrogated, revoked, or annulled
  • uncongested — to fill to excess; overcrowd or overburden; clog: The subway entrance was so congested that no one could move.
  • undergrowth — low-lying vegetation or small trees growing beneath larger trees; underbrush.
  • unforgetful — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
  • unforgotten — a past participle of forget.
  • unlightsome — without light; dark
  • unmortgaged — (esp of a title to property) free from any encumbrance or limitation that presents a question of fact or law
  • unobligated — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
  • unoriginate — not having an origin
  • unrighteous — not righteous; not upright or virtuous; wicked; sinful; evil: an unrighteous king.
  • unsoftening — not softening
  • uredo stage — the summer stage in certain rust fungi when uredinia are produced.
  • vaginectomy — excision of part or all of the vagina.
  • variegation — an act of variegating.
  • vertiginous — whirling; spinning; rotary: vertiginous currents of air.
  • videotaping — magnetic tape on which the electronic impulses produced by the video and audio portions of a television program, motion picture, etc., are recorded (distinguished from audiotape).
  • vortex ring — a stable perturbation in a fluid that takes the form of a torus in which the flow rotates in the section of the torus so that the pressure difference between the inside and outside of the torus balances body forces. The best-known vortex ring is a smoke ring
  • vote-getter — a candidate or issue whose personality, policies, etc., are considered certain to attract many votes.
  • watchdogged — characteristic of a watchdog
  • water wagon — a wagon used to transport water, as in military field operations or on a construction site.
  • waterlogged — so filled or flooded with water as to be heavy or unmanageable, as a ship.
  • web hosting — the business of providing various services, hardware, and software for websites, as storage and maintenance of site files on a server.
  • weigh a ton — If you say that something weighs a ton, you mean that it is extremely heavy.
  • weight down — If you weight something down, you put something heavy on it or in it in order to prevent it from moving easily.
  • weight loss — slimming
  • weight room — weight-training gym
  • well-fought — simple past tense and past participle of fight.
  • wellingtons — Plural form of wellington.
  • west orange — a town in NE New Jersey, near Newark.
  • westborough — a town in central Massachusetts.
  • white goods — household appliances
  • white-glove — meticulous; painstaking; minute: a white-glove inspection.
  • wing covert — any of the feathers concealing the bases of a bird's wing feathers.
  • wing-footed — having winged feet.
  • witenagemot — the assembly of the witan; the national council attended by the king, aldermen, bishops, and nobles.
  • wriggle out — to twist to and fro; writhe; squirm.
  • xenogenetic — Being of foreign origin; having originated elsewhere.
  • zero growth — a lack of increase or development
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