10-letter words containing i, s, o, g, r
- grillrooms — Plural form of grillroom.
- grindhouse — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- grindstone — a rotating solid stone wheel used for sharpening, shaping, etc.
- grogginess — staggering, as from exhaustion or blows: a boxer groggy from his opponent's hard left jab.
- grooviness — the quality of being groovy
- gros point — a large stitch used in embroidery. Compare petit point (def 1), tent stitch.
- grottiness — the quality of being grotty
- grouchiest — Superlative form of grouchy.
- groundfish — (fishing) Fish that swim near the seafloor.
- groundside — the part of an airport not used for aircraft takeoffs and landings.
- groundsill — the lowermost sill of a framed structure, especially one lying close to the ground.
- growliness — The state or quality of being growly.
- gyroscopic — an apparatus consisting of a rotating wheel so mounted that its axis can turn freely in certain or all directions, and capable of maintaining the same absolute direction in space in spite of movements of the mountings and surrounding parts: used to maintain equilibrium, determine direction, etc.
- gyrostatic — the science that deals with the laws of rotating bodies.
- hierograms — Plural form of hierogram.
- high horse — a haughty attitude or temper; a contemptuous manner.
- highermost — highest
- histograms — Plural form of histogram.
- holstering — Present participle of holster.
- horologist — an expert in horology.
- hot spring — a thermal spring having water warmer than 98°F (37°C): the water is usually heated by emanation from or passage near hot or molten rock.
- ideographs — an ideogram.
- igniferous — (rare) Producing fire.
- ignorances — the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.
- imbroglios — Plural form of imbroglio.
- inglorious — shameful; disgraceful: inglorious retreat.
- ingression — the act of going in or entering.
- inorganics — Plural form of inorganic.
- inpourings — Plural form of inpouring.
- insourcing — The practice of using an organization’s own personnel or other resources to accomplish a task.
- instigator — to cause by incitement; foment: to instigate a quarrel.
- integrious — (rare) Marked by integrity.
- introgress — (biology, genetics) To infiltrate the genes of one species into the gene pool of another through repeated backcrossing of an interspecific hybrid.
- irrigators — Plural form of irrigator.
- iso rating — a classification of film speed in which a doubling of the ISO number represents a doubling in sensitivity; for example, ISO 400 film requires half the exposure of ISO 200 under the same conditions. The system uses identical numbers to the obsolete ASA rating
- isographic — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- kingsolver — Barbara, born 1955, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- kissograms — Plural form of kissogram.
- konigsberg — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- legislator — a person who gives or makes laws.
- litigators — Plural form of litigator.
- lobstering — the act, process, or business of capturing lobsters.
- logarithms — Plural form of logarithm.
- logogriphs — Plural form of logogriph.
- longicorns — Plural form of longicorn.
- louisbourg — a fortress in Canada, in Nova Scotia on SE Cape Breton Island: founded in 1713 by the French and strongly fortified (1720–40); captured by the British (1758) and demolished; reconstructed as a historic site
- lugubrious — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- memorising — Present participle of memorise.
- microgauss — (physics) A unit of magnetic field strength equal to one millionth of a gauss.
- micrograms — Plural form of microgram.