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

  • thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
  • the diggers — a radical English Puritan group, led by Gerrard Winstanley, which advocated communal ownership of land (1649–50)
  • the strings — violins, violas, cellos, and double basses collectively
  • tiger shark — a large shark, Galeocerdo cuvieri, inhabiting warm seas, noted for its voracious habits.
  • tiger snake — either of two highly venomous snakes, Notechis scutatus and N. ater, of Australia and Tasmania, that grow to a length of 5 feet (1.5 meters).
  • tiger's-eye — a golden-brown chatoyant stone used for ornament, formed by the alteration of crocidolite, and consisting essentially of quartz colored by iron oxide.
  • tight-arsed — inhibited or conservative in attitude or behaviour
  • tigrishness — the quality or state of being tigrish
  • tîrgu mureş — a city in central Romania.
  • topdressing — an application of fertiliser to soil
  • torsiograph — a graph indicating vibrating movements
  • transecting — to cut across; dissect transversely.
  • transfigure — to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
  • transfixing — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
  • transgenics — (used with a singular verb) the branch of biology concerned with the transfer of genes to other species.
  • transpiring — to occur; happen; take place.
  • transposing — the act of transposing
  • tribologist — a student of, or expert in, tribology
  • triggerfish — any of various compressed, deep-bodied fishes of the genus Balistes and allied genera, chiefly inhabiting tropical seas, having an anterior dorsal fin with three stout spines: some are edible while others are poisonous.
  • 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.
  • turing plus — Systems programming language, a concurrent descendant of Turing. Available from Holt Software Assocs, Toronto <[email protected]>.
  • turing test — (artificial intelligence)   A criterion proposed by Alan Turing in 1950 for deciding whether a computer is intelligent. Turing called it "the Imitation Game" and offered it as a replacement for the question, "Can machines think?" A human holds a written conversation on any topic with an unseen correspondent (nowadays it might be by electronic mail or chat). If the human believes he is talking to another human when he is really talking to a computer then the computer has passed the Turing test and is deemed to be intelligent. Turing predicted that within 50 years (by the year 2000) technological progress would produce computing machines with a capacity of 10**9 bits, and that with such machinery, a computer program would be able to fool the average questioner for 5 minutes about 70% of the time. The Loebner Prize is a competition to find a computer program which can pass an unrestricted Turing test. See also AI-complete.
  • turkish rug — any of a large variety of handwoven rugs produced in Turkey, characterized by coarse, heavy yarn and a long, uneven pile.
  • turn signal — A car's turn signals are the flashing lights that tell you it is going to turn left or right.
  • under siege — being surrounded and attacked
  • under-sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
  • under-using — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
  • underdesign — to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge.
  • undersigned — being the one or ones whose signature appears at the end of a letter or document: All of the undersigned persons are bound by the contract.
  • underthings — girls' or women's underwear
  • undeserving — qualified for or having a claim to reward, assistance, etc., because of one's actions, qualities, or situation: the deserving poor; a deserving applicant.
  • undressings — acts of undressing
  • ungarnished — to provide or supply with something ornamental; adorn; decorate.
  • uninspiring — to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.
  • unobserving — not observing
  • unperishing — not perishing; enduring
  • unpresuming — not presumptuous; humble
  • 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.
  • unresenting — not bearing resentment or anger (toward)
  • unresisting — to withstand, strive against, or oppose: to resist infection; to resist temptation.
  • unrestingly — in an unresting manner
  • unrighteous — not righteous; not upright or virtuous; wicked; sinful; evil: an unrighteous king.
  • unshrinking — not shrinking from doing something; unhesitating
  • unsovereign — a group or body of persons or a state having sovereign authority.
  • unstartling — not startling
  • unstrategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
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