10-letter words containing r, i, g, o, s
- polarising — to cause polarization in.
- pop singer — sb who sings popular music
- porpoising — any of several small, gregarious cetaceans of the genus Phocoena, usually blackish above and paler beneath, and having a blunt, rounded snout, especially the common porpoise, P. phocoena, of both the North Atlantic and Pacific.
- prick song — written music.
- pro-busing — favoring or advocating legislation that requires the busing of students to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school.
- processing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- prodigious — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- professing — to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to: He professed extreme regret.
- proglottis — one of the segments or joints of a tapeworm, containing complete reproductive systems, usually both male and female.
- prognostic — of or relating to prognosis.
- prosecting — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- prospering — to be successful or fortunate, especially in financial respects; thrive; flourish.
- pupigerous — (of an insect) having a pupa
- pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- raised bog — a bog of convex shape produced by growth of sphagnum and other bog plants in acid conditions and the subsequent build up of acid peat
- recognised — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recognizes — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- regression — the act of going back to a previous place or state; return or reversion.
- resonating — to resound.
- resounding — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- resourcing — the provision of resources
- rigorously — characterized by rigor; rigidly severe or harsh, as people, rules, or discipline: rigorous laws.
- ring shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- ring stone — a voussoir appearing on a face of an arch.
- ring-shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- rodfishing — angling or fishing using a fishing rod
- roger, sir — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
- roistering — to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
- rosemaling — decorative work of Norwegian folk origin consisting of painted or carved floral designs, as on furniture or woodwork.
- rough fish — any fish that is not valued as a sport fish or considered a significant source of food by sport fishers.
- rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
- roystering — roister.
- rubiginose — rust-coloured or rusty
- rubiginous — rusty; rust-colored; brownish-red.
- sang-froid — coolness of mind; calmness; composure: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.
- saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
- sarcophagi — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
- schoolgirl — a girl attending school.
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- seignorial — of or relating to a seignior.
- seismogram — a record made by a seismograph.
- serologist — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
- setigerous — having setae or bristles.
- shoestring — a shoelace.
- shop right — the right of an employer to use an employee's invention without compensating the employee for the use, in cases where the invention was made at the place of and during the hours of employment.
- shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
- siegeworks — constructions built by a besieging force
- signorelli — Luca [loo-kah] /ˈlu kɑ/ (Show IPA), c1445–1523, Italian painter.
- silkgrower — a person who breeds silkworms for their silk
- siren song — a dangerously attractive, esp. seductive, proposal or offer