11-letter words containing g, o, i, n, t
- strongyloid — of or relating to a strongyle
- subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- suggestions — the act of suggesting.
- surmounting — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- surrogation — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
- swing voter — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
- swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
- syringotomy — surgical removal of a fistula
- tailhopping — the act of hopping to lift the tails of the skis off the ground while flexing the knees into a crouching position
- technologic — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
- teetotaling — of or relating to, advocating, or pledged to total abstinence from intoxicating drink.
- 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.
- temporizing — an agreement for a limited period of time
- 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
- tentiginous — relating to feelings of lust
- teratogenic — a drug or other substance capable of interfering with the development of a fetus, causing birth defects.
- terminology — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
- terrigenous — produced by the earth.
- terrorising — to fill or overcome with terror.
- tettigoniid — long-horned grasshopper.
- theogonical — of or relating to theogony
- thermogenic — causing or pertaining to the production of heat.
- thingamabob — thingamajig.
- thingumabob — thingamajig.
- thoroughpin — an abnormal swelling just above the hock of a horse, usually appearing on both sides of the leg and sometimes causing lameness.
- ticking off — If you give someone a ticking off, you speak angrily to them because they have done something wrong.
- ticonderoga — a village in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: site of French fort captured by the English 1759 and by Americans under Ethan Allen 1775.
- tiring room — a dressing room, especially in a theater.
- toe-curling — If you describe something as toe-curling, you mean that it makes you feel very embarrassed.
- 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.
- tolling dog — toller1 (def 2).
- tombstoning — the activity of diving off cliffs into the sea
- tongue-tied — unable to speak, as from shyness, embarrassment, or surprise.
- top billing — the first or most prominent position in a list of actors or entertainers, as on a marquee or screen.
- top slicing — mining of thick orebodies in a series of stopes from top to bottom, the roof being caved with its timbers as each stope is exhausted.
- top-ranking — A top-ranking person is someone who has a very high rank or status in a particular organization or field of activity.
- topdressing — an application of fertiliser to soil
- touring car — an open automobile designed for five or more passengers.
- townscaping — the act of designing a town
- toxicogenic — generating or producing toxic products or poisons.
- transposing — the act of transposing
- trimetrogon — of or relating to a system of aerial photography using three cameras, one pointed directly downward and the others at 60° to it.
- tritagonist — (in ancient Greece) the third member of an acting troupe, which always consisted of three actors. Compare protagonist (def 4), deuteragonist.
- troglobiont — any creature having a cave-dwelling mode of life.
- 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.