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11-letter words containing r, e, i, n, t, g

  • stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
  • stevedoring — the act or practice of loading or unloading a ship, ship's cargo, etc
  • strain gage — A strain gage is a sensor for measuring the amount of strain on a solid surface.
  • strap hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • strap-hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • streamingly — in a streaming manner
  • string bean — any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
  • string line — string (def 17b).
  • stringently — rigorously binding or exacting; strict; severe: stringent laws.
  • stringiness — resembling a string or strings; consisting of strings or stringlike pieces: stringy weeds; a stringy fiber.
  • stringpiece — a long, usually horizontal piece of timber, beam, etc., for strengthening, connecting, or supporting a framework.
  • strong side — the side of the offensive line where the tight end is positioned, thereby the side having the greater number of players.
  • superstring — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.
  • surgicenter — a surgical facility, not based in a hospital, where minor surgery is performed on an outpatient basis.
  • swing voter — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
  • swingletree — a whiffletree.
  • swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
  • synergistic — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
  • tearjerking — a pathetic story, play, movie, or the like; an excessively sentimental tale.
  • teleworking — Teleworking is working from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and modems to contact people.
  • temporizing — an agreement for a limited period of time
  • tengri khan — a mountain in central Asia, on the boundary between Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) and China: highest peak of the Tien Shan Mountains. About 23,950 feet (7300 meters).
  • teratogenic — a drug or other substance capable of interfering with the development of a fetus, causing birth defects.
  • terminating — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
  • 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.
  • tetragynian — related to or belonging to the Tetragynia class of plants having four pistils
  • thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
  • the gherkin — the nickname of a bluish cigar-shaped office block in the City of London; height 180 m (585 ft); opened in in 2004
  • the strings — violins, violas, cellos, and double basses collectively
  • there again — on second thoughts, however
  • thermogenic — causing or pertaining to the production of heat.
  • threatening — tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures.
  • 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.
  • tiger prawn — a large edible prawn of the genus Penaeus with dark bands across the body, fished commercially in the Indian and Pacific oceans
  • tiger snake — either of two highly venomous snakes, Notechis scutatus and N. ater, of Australia and Tasmania, that grow to a length of 5 feet (1.5 meters).
  • tigrishness — the quality or state of being tigrish
  • timing gear — (in an internal-combustion engine) the drive between the crankshaft and the camshaft, usually giving a ratio of 2 : 1
  • 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.
  • topdressing — an application of fertiliser to soil
  • tragedienne — an actress especially noted for performing tragic roles.
  • transecting — to cut across; dissect transversely.
  • transfigure — to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
  • transgenics — (used with a singular verb) the branch of biology concerned with the transfer of genes to other species.
  • triangulate — composed of or marked with triangles.
  • trigger man — a gangster who specializes in gunning people down.
  • 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.
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