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10-letter words containing r, e, g, i

  • sure thing — something that is or is supposed to be a certain success, as a bet or a business venture: He thinks that real estate is a sure thing.
  • surfeiting — excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.
  • surge tide — a powerful and often destructive tide that may occur when an abnormally high tide (e.g. at the autumn equinox) coincides with high wind and low atmospheric pressure
  • swaggering — pertaining to, characteristic of, or behaving in the manner of a person who swaggers.
  • sweltering — suffering oppressive heat.
  • swinglebar — a whiffletree.
  • switchgear — switching equipment used in an electric power station.
  • synergetic — working together; cooperative.
  • tardigrade — Also called bear animalcule, water bear. any microscopic, chiefly herbivorous invertebrate of the phylum Tardigrada, living in water, on mosses, lichens, etc.
  • targetitis — the setting of more targets than is strictly necessary for the effective functioning of an organization, esp when it leads to an increase in bureaucracy
  • teddy girl — a rebellious British girl who, in the 1950s and early 1960s, affected the dress of the reign of Edward VII.
  • teethridge — alveolar ridge.
  • telebridge — a television broadcast using satellite technology to enable discussion between studio audiences in different countries
  • tenderling — a weak or effeminate person
  • tengri nor — a salt lake in E Tibet, NW of Lhasa. About 700 sq. mi. (1813 sq. km); 15,186 feet (4629 meters) above sea level.
  • tensegrity — the property of skeleton structures that employ continuous tension members and discontinuous compression members in such a way that each member operates with the maximum efficiency and economy.
  • terrifying — to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.
  • the virgin — the constellation Virgo, the sixth sign of the zodiac
  • thimblerig — a sleight-of-hand swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups, and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies.
  • thunbergia — any of various plants, vines, or shrubs belonging to the genus Thunbergia, of the acanthus family, native to Africa and southern Asia, having variously colored flowers and often cultivated as ornamentals in warm regions.
  • thundering — of, relating to, or accompanied by thunder.
  • tiger balm — a mentholated ointment widely used as a panacea
  • tiger lily — a lily, Lilium lancifolium (or tigrinum), having dull-orange flowers spotted with black and small bulbs or bulbils in the axils of the leaves.
  • tiger moth — any of numerous moths of the family Arctiidae, many of which have conspicuously striped or spotted wings.
  • tiger team — a group of highly skilled workers assigned to tasks of special importance and urgency
  • tight-arse — an inhibited or excessively self-controlled person
  • tollbridge — a bridge where tolls are collected
  • tormenting — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
  • torpedoing — a self-propelled, cigar-shaped missile containing explosives and often equipped with a homing device, launched from a submarine or other warship, for destroying surface vessels or other submarines.
  • tour guide — A tour guide is a person employed by a travel company to assist people who are on vacation.
  • towel ring — a circular hoop in a bathroom, etc, for hanging towels on
  • trailering — the advertising of a film or television programme by means of trailers
  • transgenic — of, relating to, or containing a gene or genes transferred from another species: transgenic mice.
  • trapessing — to walk over; tramp: to traipse the fields.
  • travelling — to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey: to travel for pleasure.
  • traversing — to pass or move over, along, or through.
  • treillaged — fitted with treillage, trelliswork
  • trephining — a small circular saw with a center pin mounted on a strong hollow metal shaft to which is attached a transverse handle: used in surgery to remove circular disks of bone from the skull.
  • trichogyne — a hairlike prolongation of a carpogonium, serving as a receptive organ for the spermatium.
  • trigeminal — of or relating to the trigeminal nerve.
  • triggering — a small projecting tongue in a firearm that, when pressed by the finger, actuates the mechanism that discharges the weapon.
  • triggerman — a gangster who specializes in gunning people down.
  • trinketing — secret or underhand dealings
  • trousering — any cloth suitable for trousers
  • trowbridge — a market town in SW England, administrative centre of Wiltshire: woollen manufacturing. Pop: 34 401 (2001)
  • trumpeting — Music. any of a family of brass wind instruments with a powerful, penetrating tone, consisting of a tube commonly curved once or twice around on itself and having a cup-shaped mouthpiece at one end and a flaring bell at the other. an organ stop having a tone resembling that of a trumpet. a trumpeter.
  • tumorgenic — producing tumours
  • twig borer — any of several beetles, beetle larvae, or moth larvae that bore into the twigs of plants.
  • ulcerating — to form an ulcer; become ulcerous: His skin ulcerated after exposure to radioactive material.
  • unabridged — not abridged or shortened, as a book.
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