11-letter words containing l, a, g, e
- vestigially — of, relating to, or of the nature of a vestige: a vestigial tail.
- victuallage — supplies or food; victuals
- vinegar eel — a minute nematode worm, Anguillula aceti, common in vinegar, fermenting paste, etc.
- vinegar fly — any fly of the family Drosophilidae, the larvae of which feed on decaying fruit and vegetation.
- virginalled — played on the virginal
- vlaardingen — a city in the W Netherlands, at the mouth of the Rhine.
- vo language — a type of language that has direct objects following the verb and that tends to have typological traits such as prepositions, prefixes, noun modifiers following nouns, adverbs following verbs, and auxiliary verbs preceding the main verb.
- volga river — a river flowing from the Valdai Hills in the W Russian Federation E and then S to the Caspian Sea: the longest river in Europe. 2325 miles (3745 km).
- vulgarities — the state or quality of being vulgar: the vulgarity of his remark.
- wages clerk — a worker in an office who calculates staff wages
- waldgravine — a woman married to a waldgrave
- wallaceburg — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- wander plug — an electrical plug on the end of a flexible wire, for insertion into any of a number of sockets
- wanderingly — In a way that wanders.
- water glass — a drinking glass; tumbler.
- waterlogged — so filled or flooded with water as to be heavy or unmanageable, as a ship.
- wavelengths — Plural form of wavelength.
- weathergirl — a young woman who presents weather forecasts
- well argued — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
- well-argued — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
- well-geared — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- well-taught — simple past tense and past participle of teach.
- west bengal — a state in E India: formerly part of the province of Bengal. 33,805 sq. mi. (87,555 sq. km). Capital: Calcutta. Compare Bengal (def 1).
- whangdoodle — a fanciful creature of undefined nature.
- wheel gauge — the distance between two wheels on the same axle of a vehicle
- whigmaleery — whigmaleerie.
- whole-grain — of or being natural or unprocessed grain containing the germ and bran.
- wholegrains — Wholegrains are the grains of cereals such as wheat and maize that have not been processed.
- wholesaling — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
- wiggle nail — a fastener consisting of a piece of corrugated sheet steel with one wavy edge sharpened, for uniting two pieces of wood, as in a miter joint.
- wiggle-tail — wriggler (def 2).
- wild orange — laurel cherry.
- wine gallon — a former English gallon of 160 fluid ounces: equal to the present U.S. standard gallon of 128 fluid ounces.
- wineglasses — Plural form of wineglass.
- wranglesome — Inclined to wrangle or squabble; quarrelsome.
- xenoglossia — an ability claimed by some mediums, clairvoyants, etc, to speak a language with which they are unfamiliar
- xylographed — Simple past tense and past participle of xylograph.
- xylographer — A person who makes xylographs.
- yagi aerial — a highly directional aerial, used esp in television and radio astronomy, consisting of three or more elements lying parallel to each other, the principal direction of radiation being along the line of the centres
- yatteringly — in a yattering manner
- yawl-rigged — rigged in the manner of a yawl.
- yellow flag — Nautical. quarantine flag.
- zigzag rule — a rule composed of light strips of wood joined by rivets so as to be foldable, all the opening and closing parts being in parallel planes.
- zygopleural — possessing symmetry on both sides