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11-letter words containing n, e, o, g, t

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • temporizing — an agreement for a limited period of time
  • 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
  • tentiginous — relating to feelings of lust
  • teratogenic — a drug or other substance capable of interfering with the development of a fetus, causing birth defects.
  • terminology — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
  • terrigenous — produced by the earth.
  • terrorising — to fill or overcome with terror.
  • teton range — a mountain range in NW Wyoming and SE Idaho: a part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Grand Teton, about 13,700 feet (4175 meters).
  • tetragonous — related to a tetragon
  • tettigoniid — long-horned grasshopper.
  • the argonne — a wooded region of NE France: scene of major battles in both World Wars
  • the neogene — the Neogene period or system
  • the wagoner — Auriga
  • theogonical — of or relating to theogony
  • thermogenic — causing or pertaining to the production of heat.
  • ticonderoga — a village in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: site of French fort captured by the English 1759 and by Americans under Ethan Allen 1775.
  • toe-curling — If you describe something as toe-curling, you mean that it makes you feel very embarrassed.
  • toggle iron — a pin, bolt, or rod placed transversely through a chain, an eye or loop in a rope, etc., as to bind it temporarily to another chain or rope similarly treated.
  • tongue sole — tonguefish.
  • tongue worm — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pentastomida (or subphylum of Arthropoda), having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth: all are parasitic, some in the respiratory tracts of mammals.
  • tongue-lash — to reprimand severely; scold
  • tongue-tied — unable to speak, as from shyness, embarrassment, or surprise.
  • tongues wag — If tongues are wagging, people are talking a lot about someone and their behaviour.
  • topdressing — an application of fertiliser to soil
  • tower wagon — a trailer carrying an extensible ladder for use in firefighting, photography, repairing overhead wires, trimming trees, etc. Compare cherry picker (def 2).
  • toxicogenic — generating or producing toxic products or poisons.
  • trimetrogon — of or relating to a system of aerial photography using three cameras, one pointed directly downward and the others at 60° to it.
  • trypsinogen — a precursor of trypsin that is secreted by the pancreas and is activated to trypsin in the small intestine.
  • tselinograd — a former name of Akmola.
  • tumorigenic — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
  • unabrogated — not abrogated, revoked, or annulled
  • uncongested — to fill to excess; overcrowd or overburden; clog: The subway entrance was so congested that no one could move.
  • undergrowth — low-lying vegetation or small trees growing beneath larger trees; underbrush.
  • unforgetful — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
  • unforgotten — a past participle of forget.
  • unlightsome — without light; dark
  • unmortgaged — (esp of a title to property) free from any encumbrance or limitation that presents a question of fact or law
  • unobligated — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
  • unoriginate — not having an origin
  • unrighteous — not righteous; not upright or virtuous; wicked; sinful; evil: an unrighteous king.
  • unsoftening — not softening
  • vaginectomy — excision of part or all of the vagina.
  • variegation — an act of variegating.
  • vertiginous — whirling; spinning; rotary: vertiginous currents of air.
  • videotaping — magnetic tape on which the electronic impulses produced by the video and audio portions of a television program, motion picture, etc., are recorded (distinguished from audiotape).
  • vortex ring — a stable perturbation in a fluid that takes the form of a torus in which the flow rotates in the section of the torus so that the pressure difference between the inside and outside of the torus balances body forces. The best-known vortex ring is a smoke ring
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