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11-letter words containing g, s, t, a

  • resignation — the act of resigning.
  • retroussage — the technique or action, in etching or engraving, of drawing up ink from within the incised lines of an inked plate by deftly passing a soft cloth across its surface in order to spread ink to the adjacent areas.
  • right stage — the part of the stage that is right of center as one faces the audience.
  • ringstraked — ring-streaked.
  • rising star — up-and-coming performer
  • risk-taking — courting danger or loss
  • rogue state — When politicians or journalists talk about a rogue state, they mean a country that they regard as a threat to their own country's security, for example because it supports terrorism.
  • rusticating — to go to the country.
  • safety cage — A safety cage is a rigid part of the body of a vehicle that surrounds the passenger compartment and protects passengers during a crash.
  • sagittarian — a person born under Sagittarius, the ninth sign of the zodiac; a Sagittarius.
  • sagittarius — zodiac sign: Archer
  • sailboating — the sport of using a sailing boat
  • salpingitis — inflammation of a salpinx.
  • salting out — the addition of salt to a mixture to precipitate proteins, soaps, and other simple organic compounds.
  • salting-out — Salting-out is the effect when adding a salt to a solvent containing an organic solute reduces the solubility of that solute.
  • samuel ting — Samuel C(hao) C(hung) [chou choo ng] /tʃaʊ tʃʊŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1936, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1976.
  • sanctioning — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
  • sash weight — a counterweight to a vertically sliding window sash.
  • satin glass — an American art glassware having colored glass set into indentations in a thickness of opaque glass, the whole covered with clear glass and etched slightly with acid.
  • satisficing — the act of satisficing
  • scambaiting — the practice of pretending to fall for fraudulent online schemes in order to waste the time of the perpetrators
  • scatter rug — a small rug, placed on the floor in front of a chair, under a table, etc.
  • scatter-gun — a shotgun
  • scattergood — a spendthrift.
  • scattergram — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
  • scatterling — a person with no fixed home; a wanderer; a vagabond
  • scent gland — any of various specialized skin glands, occurring in many kinds of animals, that emit an odor commonly functioning as a social or sexual signal or a defensive weapon.
  • scratch wig — a short wig, especially one that covers only part of the head.
  • scsi target — (hardware)   A SCSI device that executes a command from a SCSI initiator to perform some task. Typically the target is a SCSI peripheral device but the host adapter can also be a target.
  • sea bathing — the activity of swimming in the sea
  • searchlight — a device, usually consisting of a light and reflector, for throwing a beam of light in any direction.
  • sedigitated — having six fingers
  • seepage pit — a pit that is lined with a porous, mortarless masonry wall in which effluent from a septic tank is collected for gradual seepage into the ground, sometimes used as a substitute for a drainfield.
  • segregation — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
  • segregative — to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
  • self-acting — acting by itself; automatic.
  • self-hating — harbouring feelings of self-hatred
  • self-taught — taught to oneself or by oneself to be (as indicated) without the aid of a formal education: self-taught typing; a self-taught typist.
  • semi-staged — produced with the use of only a limited number of props, costumes, etc.
  • septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
  • set against — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
  • sgml tagger — (tool)   A tool to assist with adding SGML to a piece of text. The Tagger only lets the user insert a mark-up tag which is correct in that particular context.
  • shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
  • shag carpet — shag pile carpet
  • sheet glass — glass in sheet form produced by drawing or by the cylinder glass process.
  • shift gears — change speed manually in a vehicle
  • short-range — having a limited extent, as in distance or time: a short-range shot; a short-range plan.
  • shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
  • sight draft — a draft payable upon presentation.
  • sigillation — the act of sealing
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