11-letter words containing g, r, i, s, a
- string bean — 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.
- stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
- strippagram — a greetings message delivered by a stripper who does a striptease on delivery
- subirrigate — to irrigate beneath the surface of the ground, as with water passing through a system of underground porous pipes or transmitted through the subsoil from ditches, etc.
- submarginal — Biology. near the margin.
- submarining — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- súgán chair — a chair with a seat made from woven súgáns
- sugar basin — sugar bowl.
- suppurating — to produce or discharge pus, as a wound; maturate.
- surfcasting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- surrogation — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
- swearing in — an official ceremony where a person takes an oath of office, allegiance, etc.
- swearing-in — an official ceremony where a person takes an oath of office, allegiance, etc.
- swiss guard — a member of a corps of bodyguards protecting the pope, with membership restricted to natives of Switzerland.
- switchgrass — a North American prairie grass
- tax sharing — revenue sharing.
- thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
- tiger shark — a large shark, Galeocerdo cuvieri, inhabiting warm seas, noted for its voracious habits.
- tiger snake — either of two highly venomous snakes, Notechis scutatus and N. ater, of Australia and Tasmania, that grow to a length of 5 feet (1.5 meters).
- tight-arsed — inhibited or conservative in attitude or behaviour
- torsiograph — a graph indicating vibrating movements
- transecting — to cut across; dissect transversely.
- transfigure — to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
- transfixing — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- transgenics — (used with a singular verb) the branch of biology concerned with the transfer of genes to other species.
- transpiring — to occur; happen; take place.
- transposing — the act of transposing
- tritagonist — (in ancient Greece) the third member of an acting troupe, which always consisted of three actors. Compare protagonist (def 4), deuteragonist.
- tselinograd — a former name of Akmola.
- turn signal — A car's turn signals are the flashing lights that tell you it is going to turn left or right.
- ungarnished — to provide or supply with something ornamental; adorn; decorate.
- unreasoning — not reasoning or exercising reason; reasonless; thoughtless; irrational: an unreasoning fanatic.
- unstartling — not startling
- unstrategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- vanguardism — the beliefs and activities of persons who consider themselves to be leaders in a particular field or school of thought.
- vanguardist — the beliefs and activities of persons who consider themselves to be leaders in a particular field or school of thought.
- very signal — a colored flare fired from a special pistol (Very pistol) for signaling at night
- virginalist — Often, virginals. a rectangular harpsichord with the strings stretched parallel to the keyboard, the earlier types placed on a table: popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- visbreaking — Visbreaking is thermal cracking, when the vacuum residue is less viscous and it can then be used to produce valuable products.
- vulgarities — the state or quality of being vulgar: the vulgarity of his remark.
- wainwrights — Plural form of wainwright.
- waitressing — a woman who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- warehousing — an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
- warfighters — Plural form of warfighter.
- warm spring — a thermal spring having a temperature of up to 98°F (37°C).
- watchspring — the main spring inside a watch
- water wings — an inflatable contrivance shaped like a pair of wings, usually worn under the arms to keep the body afloat while one swims or learns to swim.
- waterskiing — Alternative spelling of water skiing.
- wharfingers — Plural form of wharfinger.