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11-letter words containing i, n, g, e, l

  • single whip — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
  • single-foot — rack3 (def 1).
  • single-hand — to sail (a craft) without help from others.
  • single-hung — (of a window) having two sashes, only one of which is movable.
  • single-knit — a fabric made on warp knit.
  • single-malt — (of whiskey, especially Scotch) made from unblended malt whiskey distilled at one distillery.
  • single-shot — (of a firearm) requiring loading before each shot; not having or using a cartridge magazine.
  • single-step — to perform a single instruction on (a program), generally under the control of a debug program
  • single-wide — a mobile home used as a permanent residence.
  • singles bar — a bar or tavern catering to a clientele composed chiefly of single men and women, especially those seeking a lover or spouse.
  • singlestick — a short, heavy stick.
  • singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • singularize — to make singular.
  • singulative — a grammatical form or construction that expresses a singular entity or indicates that an individual is singled out from a group, especially as opposed to a collective noun, as snowflake as opposed to snow.
  • slaveringly — in a slavering manner
  • smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
  • snorkelling — the activity of swimming with a snorkel
  • solid angle — an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting in a common point or formed at the vertex of a cone.
  • sovereignly — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
  • speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • spindlelegs — (used with a plural verb) long, thin legs.
  • splintering — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
  • splodginess — the state of being splodgy
  • spreadingly — in a spreading manner
  • spring line — warp (def 16).
  • springfield — a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,400 sq. mi. (146,075 sq. km). Capital: Springfield. Abbreviation: IL (for use with zip code), Ill.
  • springville — a town in central Utah.
  • squeakingly — in a squeaking manner
  • squirreling — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
  • steelmaking — the manufacture of steel.
  • stencilling — a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
  • stepsibling — a stepbrother or stepsister.
  • streamingly — in a streaming manner
  • string line — string (def 17b).
  • stringently — rigorously binding or exacting; strict; severe: stringent laws.
  • surveilling — to place under surveillance.
  • swingeingly — by way of swingeing
  • swingletree — a whiffletree.
  • taking lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
  • taletelling — the act of telling stories
  • tangle with — get involved with
  • 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.
  • telebanking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services by means of a computer network
  • 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.
  • televiewing — the act of watching television
  • 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
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