11-letter words containing r, i, g, o, s
- sockdoliger — a conclusive argument; a hard blow
- soil boring — Soil boring is a technique used to survey soil by taking several shallow cores out of the sediment. It is used when a drilling jacket or jack-up rig is to be supported on the soil.
- songwriting — composing melodies and lyrics
- soteriology — the doctrine of salvation through Jesus Christ.
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- sovereignly — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
- spirography — the study of breathing using a spirograph
- sponge iron — finely divided, porous iron, reduced from an oxide at a temperature below the melting point.
- sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
- spring lock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- spring roll — an egg roll.
- spring snow — corn snow.
- springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
- stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
- stereoimage — the single three-dimensional image perceived in the brain by the coordination of the two slightly different views seen by the eyes.
- stevedoring — the act or practice of loading or unloading a ship, ship's cargo, etc
- stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
- stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
- strong side — the side of the offensive line where the tight end is positioned, thereby the side having the greater number of players.
- strong suit — Bridge. a long suit that contains high cards.
- strongpoint — a fortified defensive position; stronghold.
- strongyloid — of or relating to a strongyle
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- superegoist — an exceptionally selfish or self-centred person; someone who is very self-important
- surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.
- surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
- surmounting — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- surrogation — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
- surrounding — something that surrounds, as the area, border, etc., around an object or central space: a tile surround for the shower stall.
- swing voter — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
- swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
- sword fight — duel with long-bladed weapons
- syringotomy — surgical removal of a fistula
- terrigenous — produced by the earth.
- terrorising — to fill or overcome with terror.
- topdressing — an application of fertiliser to soil
- torsiograph — a graph indicating vibrating movements
- transposing — the act of transposing
- tribologist — a student of, or expert in, tribology
- tritagonist — (in ancient Greece) the third member of an acting troupe, which always consisted of three actors. Compare protagonist (def 4), deuteragonist.
- 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.
- unobserving — not observing
- unpromising — unlikely to be favorable or successful, as the weather, a situation, or a career.
- unreasoning — not reasoning or exercising reason; reasonless; thoughtless; irrational: an unreasoning fanatic.
- unreligious — irreligious.
- unrighteous — not righteous; not upright or virtuous; wicked; sinful; evil: an unrighteous king.