11-letter words containing r, i, g, s
- silver-grey — light grey that resembles silver
- singaporean — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- single room — hotel room for one person
- singles bar — a bar or tavern catering to a clientele composed chiefly of single men and women, especially those seeking a lover or spouse.
- singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- singularism — any philosophy that explains phenomena from a single principle
- singularist — someone who advocates singularism
- singularity — the state, fact, or quality of being singular.
- singularize — to make singular.
- sir galahad — (in Arthurian legend) the most virtuous knight of the Round Table, destined to regain the Holy Grail; son of Lancelot and Elaine
- sit through — endure the whole of
- sixth grade — (in the US) the sixth school year after kindergarten, usually containing pupils around 11 or 12 years old
- ski touring — cross-country skiing.
- skyscraping — of or like a skyscraper; very high: a skyscraping chimney.
- slaveringly — in a slavering manner
- sleigh ride — trip on a sledge
- sling chair — any of several varieties of chairs having a seat and back formed from a single sheet of canvas, leather, or the like, hanging loosely in a frame.
- slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
- sluggardise — indolence or laziness
- sluggardize — to make lazy or sluggish
- smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- sniffer dog — a dog trained to find illegal drugs or explosives by smell.
- snorkelling — the activity of swimming with a snorkel
- snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
- snow grains — precipitation consisting of white, opaque ice particles usually less than one millimeter in diameter.
- snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- 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.
- spacefaring — space travel
- sparagmatic — denoting a type of Precambrian rock found in Scandinavia
- sparklingly — in a sparkling manner
- sphragistic — of or relating to seals or signet rings.
- spin-drying — a technique for extracting water from clothes, linen, etc, by spinning them in a perforated drum
- spiral gear — a type of helical gear used for transmitting power between shafts that are at an angle to each other.
- spirketting — deck planking near the bulwarks
- spirography — the study of breathing using a spirograph
- spitsbergen — a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, N of and belonging to Norway. 24,293 sq. mi. (62,920 sq. km).
- spitzbergen — a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, N of and belonging to Norway. 24,293 sq. mi. (62,920 sq. km).
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- splintering — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- sponge iron — finely divided, porous iron, reduced from an oxide at a temperature below the melting point.
- sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.