10-letter words containing g, i, r, a
- shattering — to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
- shin guard — a protective covering, usually of leather or plastic and often padded, for the shins and sometimes the knees, worn chiefly by catchers in baseball and goalkeepers in ice hockey.
- siegecraft — the science or skill of conducting a siege
- sight-read — Someone who can sight-read can play or sing music from a printed sheet the first time they see it, without practising it beforehand.
- sigillarid — a fossilized, tree-like plant of the genus Sigillaria
- signal red — pimento (def 3).
- silver age — Classical Mythology. the second of the four ages of humankind, inferior to the golden age but superior to the bronze age that followed: characterized by an increase of impiety and of human weakness.
- singularly — extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
- skid a rig — If you skid a rig, you slide it from one well hole to another.
- skin graft — skin used for transplanting in skin grafting.
- skylarking — a brown-speckled European lark, Alauda arvensis, famed for its melodious song.
- slathering — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- smaragdine — of or relating to emeralds.
- smaragdite — a green, foliated member of the amphibole group.
- smattering — slight or superficial knowledge; smattering.
- smyrna fig — a variety of the common fig, Ficus carica, that requires caprification in order to produce fruit.
- sparganium — a marsh plant
- spattering — to scatter or dash in small particles or drops: The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself.
- spinigrade — a type of spiny echinoderm
- spiralling — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- spirograph — an instrument for recording respiratory movements.
- sporangium — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- springdale — a city in NW Arkansas.
- springhaas — a leaping and burrowing rodent, Pedetes capensis, native to southern Africa, having kangaroolike legs and long, pointed ears.
- springhalt — stringhalt.
- springhare — a leaping and burrowing rodent, Pedetes capensis, native to southern Africa, having kangaroolike legs and long, pointed ears.
- springhead — a spring or fountainhead from which a stream flows.
- springtail — any of numerous minute, wingless primitive insects of the order Collembola, most possessing a special abdominal appendage for jumping that allows for the nearly perpetual springing pattern characteristic of the group.
- staggering — tending to stagger or overwhelm: a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.
- stalingrad — former name of Volgograd.
- stargazing — to gaze at or observe the stars.
- startingly — in sudden brief snatches, or with a sudden nervous jump or start
- starveling — a person, animal, or plant that is starving.
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- sternalgia — pain occurring in or around the sternum
- sternalgic — relating to or having sternalgia
- stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- stigmarian — belonging to, resembling, or containing fossils of the genus Sigillaria
- straggling — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- straight a — achieving or showing the highest grade or superior accomplishment, especially scholastically: a straight A report card.
- straighten — make straight
- straighter — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- strangling — an incident in which someone is strangled
- strategics — strategy (def 1).
- strategies — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- strategise — to make up or determine strategy; plan.
- strategist — an expert in strategy, especially in warfare: Julius Caesar was a great military strategist.
- strategize — to make up or determine strategy; plan.
- stravaging — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- stravaiger — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.