10-letter words containing g, r, i, s, a
- 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.
- 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.
- string bag — an openwork bag made of string, especially one with handles.
- stringbean — any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
- stringhalt — a nerve disorder in horses, causing exaggerated flexing movements of the hind legs in walking.
- suffragist — an advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage, especially to women.
- sugar bird — any of various honeycreepers that feed on nectar.
- sugar pine — a tall pine, Pinus lambertiana, of California, Oregon, etc., having cones 20 inches (51 cm) long.
- sugarallie — liquorice
- supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
- supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
- surgically — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- surpassing — of a large amount or high degree; exceeding, excelling, or extraordinary: structures of surpassing magnificence.
- swaggering — pertaining to, characteristic of, or behaving in the manner of a person who swaggers.
- swinglebar — a whiffletree.
- switchgear — switching equipment used in an electric power station.
- targetitis — the setting of more targets than is strictly necessary for the effective functioning of an organization, esp when it leads to an increase in bureaucracy
- tight-arse — an inhibited or excessively self-controlled person
- transgenic — of, relating to, or containing a gene or genes transferred from another species: transgenic mice.
- transiting — the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one place to another.
- trapessing — to walk over; tramp: to traipse the fields.
- traversing — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- tsvangirai — Morgan. born 1952, Zimbabwean trade unionist and politician; leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, the main opposition party to President Mugabe's Zanu-PF since 1999; prime minister (2009–2013)
- unaspiring — lacking ambition or aspiration
- unassuring — to declare earnestly to; inform or tell positively; state with confidence to: She assured us that everything would turn out all right.