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11-letter words containing i, n, s, g

  • risk-taking — courting danger or loss
  • rusticating — to go to the country.
  • safekeeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
  • saginaw bay — an arm of Lake Huron, off the E coast of Michigan. 60 miles (97 km) long.
  • sagittarian — a person born under Sagittarius, the ninth sign of the zodiac; a Sagittarius.
  • sailboating — the sport of using a sailing boat
  • sailplaning — the sport of flying sailplanes
  • salpingitis — inflammation of a salpinx.
  • salsuginous — full of salt or able to grow in salty soil
  • 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.
  • san domingo — Santo Domingo (defs 2, 3).
  • san gabriel — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • sanctioning — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
  • sandbagging — a bag filled with sand, used in fortification, as ballast, etc.
  • sandringham — a village in N Norfolk, England: site of Sandringham House, Royal Family mansion.
  • sandwiching — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
  • sanguinaria — the bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis.
  • sanguineous — of, relating to, or containing blood.
  • saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
  • 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
  • scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
  • scambaiting — the practice of pretending to fall for fraudulent online schemes in order to waste the time of the perpetrators
  • scamblingly — in a scambling, noisy, or intrusive manner
  • scan design — (electronics)   (Or "Scan-In, Scan-Out") A electronic circuit design technique which aims to increase the controllability and observability of a digital logic circuit by incorporating special "scan registers" into the circuit so that they form a scan path. Some of the more common types of scan design include the multiplexed register designs and level-sensitive scan design (LSSD) used extensively by IBM. Boundary scan can be used alone or in combination with either of the above techniques.
  • scatterling — a person with no fixed home; a wanderer; a vagabond
  • schizogenic — reproducing or formed by fission.
  • schizogonic — relating to schizogony
  • schlesinger — Arthur Meier [mahy-er] /ˈmaɪ ər/ (Show IPA), 1888–1965, U.S. historian.
  • schoolgoing — the act of going to school
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
  • schuschnigg — Kurt von [kurt von;; German koort fuh n] /kɜrt vɒn;; German kurt fən/ (Show IPA) (1897–1977), Austrian statesman in the U.S.: Chancellor of Austria 1934–38.
  • scientology — the philosophy of the Church of Scientology, a nondenominational movement founded in the US in the 1950s, which emphasizes self-knowledge as a means of realizing full spiritual potential
  • scorchingly — in a scorching manner
  • scrawlingly — in a scrawling manner
  • screamingly — If you say that something is, for example, screamingly funny or screamingly boring, you mean that it is extremely funny or extremely boring.
  • screen grid — a grid placed between the anode and the control electrode in a vacuum tube, usually maintained at a fixed positive potential.
  • sculpturing — the act of sculpturing or carving
  • sdeignfully — disdainfully
  • sea bathing — the activity of swimming in the sea
  • sealing wax — a resinous preparation, soft when heated, used for sealing letters, documents, etc.
  • searchingly — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
  • 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.
  • seigneurial — a lord, especially a feudal lord.
  • seigniorage — something claimed by a sovereign or superior as a prerogative.
  • seigniorial — of or relating to a seignior.
  • selaginella — any club moss of the genus Selaginella, having stems covered in small pointed leaves and small spore-bearing cones: family Selaginellaceae
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