10-letter words containing r, i, g, s
- string bag — an openwork bag made of string, especially one with handles.
- string out — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- string tie — a short, very narrow, and unflared necktie, usually tied in a bow.
- stringbean — 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.
- stringency — stringent character or condition: the stringency of poverty.
- stringendo — to be performed with increasing speed
- stringhalt — a nerve disorder in horses, causing exaggerated flexing movements of the hind legs in walking.
- stringless — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- striplight — a row of lamps, provided with a reflector for floodlighting the stage, used as border lights, footlights, backing lights, etc.
- strivingly — in a striving manner
- struggling — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- sturbridge — a town in central Massachusetts: reconstruction of early American village.
- suffragist — an advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage, especially to women.
- sugar bird — any of various honeycreepers that feed on nectar.
- sugar pine — a tall pine, Pinus lambertiana, of California, Oregon, etc., having cones 20 inches (51 cm) long.
- sugarallie — liquorice
- superbeing — the fact of existing; existence (as opposed to nonexistence).
- supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
- superlight — extremely light
- supertight — extremely tight
- supporting — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
- 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.
- surfriding — surfing.
- 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
- surgically — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- surpassing — of a large amount or high degree; exceeding, excelling, or extraordinary: structures of surpassing magnificence.
- surplusing — something that remains above what is used or needed.
- surprising — causing surprise, wonder, or astonishment.
- swaggering — pertaining to, characteristic of, or behaving in the manner of a person who swaggers.
- sweltering — suffering oppressive heat.
- swi-prolog — (programming) A Prolog by Jan Wielemaker <[email protected]> like a superset of Edinburgh Prolog. Version 1.7.2. Docking Station is distributed under General Public License. It runs on Sun-4, Sun-3, Linux, DEC MIPS (incomplete), RS/6000, PS2/AIX, Atari ST, Gould PN, NeXT, VAX, HP-UX (problems), MS-DOS, and OS/2. Mailing list: [email protected]
- swing door — a door that swings open on being pushed or pulled from either side and then swings closed by itself.
- swinglebar — a whiffletree.
- switchgear — switching equipment used in an electric power station.
- switchgirl — a woman who operates a telephone switchboard
- synergetic — working together; cooperative.
- syringitis — an inflammation of part of the ear
- 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
- 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.
- thrustings — the white whey that is hand-pressed out of the curd and from which butter is often made
- tight-arse — an inhibited or excessively self-controlled person
- transgenic — of, relating to, or containing a gene or genes transferred from another species: transgenic mice.
- transiting — the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one place to another.
- trapessing — to walk over; tramp: to traipse the fields.
- traversing — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- trousering — any cloth suitable for trousers
- tsvangirai — Morgan. born 1952, Zimbabwean trade unionist and politician; leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, the main opposition party to President Mugabe's Zanu-PF since 1999; prime minister (2009–2013)
- turfskiing — the sport of skiing down grass slopes on skis outfitted with rollers.