10-letter words containing g, i, l, e, t
- plastering — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- plateauing — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- plummeting — Also called plumb bob. a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
- polygenist — a person who advocates polygenism
- pregenital — of, relating to, or noting reproduction.
- priestling — a small or insignificant priest
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- rear light — vehicle's tail or back light
- reflecting — to cast back (light, heat, sound, etc.) from a surface: The mirror reflected the light onto the wall.
- regelation — a phenomenon in which the freezing point of water is lowered by the application of pressure; the melting and refreezing of ice, at constant temperature, caused by varying the pressure.
- regimental — of or relating to a regiment.
- regularity — usual; normal; customary: to put something in its regular place.
- regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- regulative — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- relegation — to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition: He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service.
- relitigate — to make the subject of a lawsuit; contest at law.
- replanting — to plant again.
- replotting — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- reutlingen — a city in Baden-Württemberg, SW Germany, on the Echaz River.
- ridge tile — any of the tiles used to cover the ridge of a roof
- rigil kent — the star Alpha Centauri
- rivetingly — in a riveting manner
- saltigrade — moving by leaping.
- salzgitter — a city in Lower Saxony, in central Germany, SE of Hanover.
- seethingly — to surge or foam as if boiling.
- serologist — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
- sexologist — the study of sexual behavior.
- side-light — an item of incidental information.
- signalment — a detailed description, especially of distinctive features, of a person for identification, usually for police purposes.
- single out — only one in number; one only; unique; sole: a single example.
- single tax — a tax, as on land, that constitutes the sole source of public revenue.
- single-cut — noting a file having a series of parallel cutting ridges in one direction only.
- singletree — whiffletree.
- skylighted — having or illuminated by a skylight.
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- slingstone — a stone fired from a sling
- slithering — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- sluicegate — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- sortileger — a diviner
- spittlebug — the nymph of the froghopper, which surrounds itself with a frothy mass.
- split page — (in a newspaper) a page replacing one of an earlier edition and containing chiefly the same material in altered form.
- stalagmite — a deposit, usually of calcium carbonate, more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed on the floor of a cave or the like by the dripping of percolating calcareous water.
- starveling — a person, animal, or plant that is starving.
- stealingly — in a stealthy or elusive manner; by stealing
- stenciling — a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
- sterlingly — in a sterling way or manner
- sternalgia — pain occurring in or around the sternum
- sternalgic — relating to or having sternalgia
- streamling — a small stream
- strigilate — an instrument with a curved blade, used especially by the ancient Greeks and Romans for scraping the skin at the bath and in the gymnasium.