11-letter words containing r, i, g, s
- uprightness — erect or vertical, as in position or posture.
- vanguardism — the beliefs and activities of persons who consider themselves to be leaders in a particular field or school of thought.
- vanguardist — the beliefs and activities of persons who consider themselves to be leaders in a particular field or school of thought.
- verdigrises — a green or bluish patina formed on copper, brass, or bronze surfaces exposed to the atmosphere for long periods of time, consisting principally of basic copper sulfate.
- vertiginous — whirling; spinning; rotary: vertiginous currents of air.
- very signal — a colored flare fired from a special pistol (Very pistol) for signaling at night
- virgin soil — land uncultivated previously
- virginalist — Often, virginals. a rectangular harpsichord with the strings stretched parallel to the keyboard, the earlier types placed on a table: popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- visbreaking — Visbreaking is thermal cracking, when the vacuum residue is less viscous and it can then be used to produce valuable products.
- vortiginous — resembling a vortex; whirling; vortical.
- vulgarities — the state or quality of being vulgar: the vulgarity of his remark.
- wainwrights — Plural form of wainwright.
- waitressing — a woman who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- warehousing — an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
- warfighters — Plural form of warfighter.
- warm spring — a thermal spring having a temperature of up to 98°F (37°C).
- watchspring — the main spring inside a watch
- water wings — an inflatable contrivance shaped like a pair of wings, usually worn under the arms to keep the body afloat while one swims or learns to swim.
- waterskiing — Alternative spelling of water skiing.
- wellsprings — Plural form of wellspring.
- welsh corgi — one of either of two Welsh breeds of dogs having short legs, erect ears, and a foxlike head. Compare Cardigan (def 2), Pembroke (def 3).
- west riding — a former administrative division of Yorkshire, England.
- wharfingers — Plural form of wharfinger.
- whimperings — Plural form of whimpering.
- whisperings — Plural form of whispering.
- wholegrains — Wholegrains are the grains of cereals such as wheat and maize that have not been processed.
- wilkinsburg — a borough in SW Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
- windsurfing — a form of sailing in which a flexible sail, free to move in any direction, is mounted on a surfboard and the craft guided by the standing rider.
- witch grass — a panic grass, Panicum capillare, having a bushlike compound panicle, common as a weed in North America.
- worshipping — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
- wrongdoings — Plural form of wrongdoing.
- xeriscaping — environmental design of residential and park land using various methods for minimizing the need for water use.
- yesternight — last night.
- zincographs — Plural form of zincograph.