11-letter words containing g, o, e, l
- teetotaling — of or relating to, advocating, or pledged to total abstinence from intoxicating drink.
- telecottage — a communal workplace, situated in a rural area, which contains computers and other facilities linked into a communications network, thereby enabling people to work from remote locations
- teleologist — the doctrine that final causes exist.
- telephoning — an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device.
- telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- teleworking — Teleworking is working from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and modems to contact people.
- telling-off — If you give someone a telling-off, you tell them that you are very angry with them about something they have done.
- tense logic — the study of the logical properties of tense operators, and of the logical relations between sentences having tense, by means of consideration of appropriate formal systems
- terminology — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
- tessaraglot — relating to four languages grouped together
- the gallows — execution by hanging
- the gorbals — a district of Glasgow, formerly known for its slums
- theogonical — of or relating to theogony
- theological — of, relating to, or involved with theology: a theological student.
- thoughtless — lacking in consideration for others; inconsiderate; tactless: a thoughtless remark.
- toe-curling — If you describe something as toe-curling, you mean that it makes you feel very embarrassed.
- toggle bolt — an anchor bolt having two hinged wings, ordinarily held open by a spring, for engaging the rough sides of a hole drilled in masonry or the inner surface of a hollow wall.
- toggle iron — a pin, bolt, or rod placed transversely through a chain, an eye or loop in a rope, etc., as to bind it temporarily to another chain or rope similarly treated.
- toghril beg — ?990–1063 ad, Sultan of Turkey (1055–63), who founded the Seljuq dynasty and conquered Baghdad (1055)
- toll bridge — a bridge at which a toll is charged.
- toll charge — traffic fee payable on a road
- tongue sole — tonguefish.
- tongue-lash — to reprimand severely; scold
- travelogues — a lecture, slide show, or motion picture describing travels.
- trouser leg — the leg of a pair of trousers
- 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.
- typedprolog — (language) A strongly typed logic programming language.
- ulcerogenic — producing or inducing the formation of an ulcer.
- unbelonging — something that belongs.
- uncongenial — agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or character: congenial surroundings.
- undergaoler — jail.
- unforgeable — to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
- unforgetful — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- unglorified — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- unignorable — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- unlightsome — without light; dark
- unobligated — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- unreligious — irreligious.
- unwelcoming — not friendly, hostile
- venereology — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
- vexillology — the study of flags.
- vo language — a type of language that has direct objects following the verb and that tends to have typological traits such as prepositions, prefixes, noun modifiers following nouns, adverbs following verbs, and auxiliary verbs preceding the main verb.
- volga river — a river flowing from the Valdai Hills in the W Russian Federation E and then S to the Caspian Sea: the longest river in Europe. 2325 miles (3745 km).
- waterlogged — so filled or flooded with water as to be heavy or unmanageable, as a ship.
- weight loss — slimming
- welcomingly — In a welcoming manner.
- welding rod — filler metal supplied in the form of a rod, usually coated with flux
- well enough — sufficiently
- well-fought — simple past tense and past participle of fight.