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11-letter words containing r, i, g, s

  • scsi target — (hardware)   A SCSI device that executes a command from a SCSI initiator to perform some task. Typically the target is a SCSI peripheral device but the host adapter can also be a target.
  • sculpturing — the act of sculpturing or carving
  • searchingly — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
  • searchlight — a device, usually consisting of a light and reflector, for throwing a beam of light in any direction.
  • segregation — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
  • segregative — to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
  • seigneurial — a lord, especially a feudal lord.
  • seigniorage — something claimed by a sovereign or superior as a prerogative.
  • seigniorial — of or relating to a seignior.
  • seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
  • self-rising — rising without the addition of leaven: self-rising pancake flour.
  • self-ruling — of or relating to self-rule
  • sempstering — the profession of being a tailor
  • septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
  • sergius iii — died a.d. 911, pope 904–911.
  • serigrapher — someone who engages in serigraphy
  • serigraphic — of or pertaining to serigraphy
  • sermonizing — the act of talking as if delivering a sermon
  • serological — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
  • serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
  • service dog — a dog trained to assist a person with a disability that is not related to vision or hearing.
  • shepherding — a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.
  • shergottite — a type of igneous rock or meteorite thought to originate on Mars
  • sherrington — Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.
  • shift gears — change speed manually in a vehicle
  • ship-rigged — (of a sailing vessel) rigged as a ship; full-rigged.
  • shiveringly — in a shivering manner, usually from cold or fright
  • shoe-string — a shoelace.
  • short sight — myopia
  • shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • shortweight — to give less than the weight charged for: The firm is accused of shortweighting grain.
  • showrooming — the practice of looking at an item of merchandise in a shop, often using a smartphone app to compare its price elsewhere, before buying it from an online distributor
  • shriekingly — with shrieking
  • sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
  • sicknursing — the nursing of the sick
  • siegmeister — Elie [el-ee] /ˈɛl i/ (Show IPA), 1909–91, U.S. composer.
  • sight draft — a draft payable upon presentation.
  • sight rhyme — agreement in spelling, but not in sound, of the ends of words or of lines of verse, as in have, grave.
  • sightscreen — a white screen set in line with the wicket as an aid to the batsman in seeing the ball when it is bowled.
  • sightworthy — worth seeing
  • sigillarian — resembling the fossilized, tree-like plants of the genus Sigillaria
  • sign on for — If you sign on for something, you officially agree to work for an organization or do a course of study by signing a contract or form.
  • sign writer — someone whose job is to produce signs for businesses
  • signatories — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
  • signet ring — a finger ring containing a small seal, one's initial, or the like.
  • silver gilt — an ornamental coating of silver, silver leaf, or a silver-colored substance.
  • silver goal — (in certain competitions) a goal scored in a full half of extra time that is played if a match is drawn. This goal counts as the winner if it is the only goal scored in the full half or full period of extra time
  • silver gray — a light brownish-gray.
  • silver-gilt — an ornamental coating of silver, silver leaf, or a silver-colored substance.
  • silver-gray — gray with a silvery luster
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