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11-letter words containing r, i, n, g, t, o

  • temporizing — an agreement for a limited period of time
  • teratogenic — a drug or other substance capable of interfering with the development of a fetus, causing birth defects.
  • terminology — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
  • terrigenous — produced by the earth.
  • terrorising — to fill or overcome with terror.
  • thermogenic — causing or pertaining to the production of heat.
  • thoroughpin — an abnormal swelling just above the hock of a horse, usually appearing on both sides of the leg and sometimes causing lameness.
  • ticonderoga — a village in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: site of French fort captured by the English 1759 and by Americans under Ethan Allen 1775.
  • tiring room — a dressing room, especially in a theater.
  • toe-curling — If you describe something as toe-curling, you mean that it makes you feel very embarrassed.
  • toggle iron — a pin, bolt, or rod placed transversely through a chain, an eye or loop in a rope, etc., as to bind it temporarily to another chain or rope similarly treated.
  • top-ranking — A top-ranking person is someone who has a very high rank or status in a particular organization or field of activity.
  • topdressing — an application of fertiliser to soil
  • touring car — an open automobile designed for five or more passengers.
  • transposing — the act of transposing
  • trimetrogon — of or relating to a system of aerial photography using three cameras, one pointed directly downward and the others at 60° to it.
  • tritagonist — (in ancient Greece) the third member of an acting troupe, which always consisted of three actors. Compare protagonist (def 4), deuteragonist.
  • troglobiont — any creature having a cave-dwelling mode of life.
  • 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.
  • tumorigenic — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
  • tuning fork — a steel instrument consisting of a stem with two prongs, producing a musical tone of definite, constant pitch when struck, and serving as a standard for tuning musical instruments, making acoustical experiments, and the like.
  • unoriginate — not having an origin
  • unprofiting — the lack of profit or gain
  • unrighteous — not righteous; not upright or virtuous; wicked; sinful; evil: an unrighteous king.
  • upgradation — the process, state, or act of upgrading
  • variegation — an act of variegating.
  • vertiginous — whirling; spinning; rotary: vertiginous currents of air.
  • vortex ring — a stable perturbation in a fluid that takes the form of a torus in which the flow rotates in the section of the torus so that the pressure difference between the inside and outside of the torus balances body forces. The best-known vortex ring is a smoke ring
  • vortiginous — resembling a vortex; whirling; vortical.
  • wagon train — a train of wagons and horses, as one carrying military supplies or transporting settlers in the westward migration.
  • wagonwright — a person who makes wagons
  • war footing — the condition or status of a military force or other organization when operating under a state of war or as if a state of war existed.
  • win through — succeed despite obstacles
  • wing covert — any of the feathers concealing the bases of a bird's wing feathers.
  • woodturning — The action of shaping wood with a lathe.
  • worthington — a town in central Ohio.
  • wrong thing — (jargon)   A design, action, or decision that is clearly incorrect or inappropriate. Often capitalised; always emphasised in speech as if capitalised. The opposite of the Right Thing; more generally, anything that is not the Right Thing. In cases where "the good is the enemy of the best", the merely good - although good - is nevertheless the Wrong Thing. "In C, the default is for module-level declarations to be visible everywhere, rather than just within the module. This is clearly the Wrong Thing."
  • zero-rating — the process of rating goods at a VAT level of zero
  • zoografting — zooplasty.
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