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11-letter words containing s, e, a, g, u

  • meliphagous — feeding on honey
  • misguidance — to guide wrongly; misdirect.
  • misregulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
  • museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
  • musette bag — Also called musette bag. a small leather or canvas bag with a shoulder strap, used for carrying personal belongings, food, etc., while hiking, marching, or the like.
  • muskallonge — muskellunge.
  • mutagenesis — the origin and development of a mutation.
  • mystagogues — Plural form of mystagogue.
  • naughtiness — disobedient; mischievous (used especially in speaking to or about children): Weren't we naughty not to eat our spinach?
  • omega minus — an unstable negatively charged elementary particle, classified as a baryon, that has a mass 3273 times that of the electron
  • onagraceous — belonging to the Onagraceae, the evening primrose family of plants.
  • onslaughter — An onslaught.
  • orange rust — a disease of blackberries and raspberries, characterized by an orange, powdery mass of spores on the undersides of the leaves and stunted, misshapen foliage, caused by a rust fungus, Gymnoconia interstitialis.
  • outgenerals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outgeneral.
  • outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
  • palaeologus — family name of Byzantine rulers 1259–1453.
  • parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
  • pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
  • pelagius ii — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
  • pentagynous — (of plants) belonging to the order Pentagynia, characterized by the presence of five styles or pistils
  • persian rug — an Oriental rug made in Persia (Iran), having rich, soft colors in any of various intricate, often floral, patterns
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
  • pseudologia — a psychological condition in which a patient tells elaborate, false stories believing them to be true
  • psychagogue — a necromancer
  • purple sage — a plant, Salvia leucophylla, of the mint family, native to California, having silvery leaves and purple spikes of flowers.
  • quadrangles — Plural form of quadrangle.
  • quasi-legal — permitted by law; lawful: Such acts are not legal.
  • retroussage — the technique or action, in etching or engraving, of drawing up ink from within the incised lines of an inked plate by deftly passing a soft cloth across its surface in order to spread ink to the adjacent areas.
  • rogue state — When politicians or journalists talk about a rogue state, they mean a country that they regard as a threat to their own country's security, for example because it supports terrorism.
  • rugosa rose — a shrub, Rosa rugosa, having densely bristled stems, wrinkled leaves, and fragrant red or white flowers.
  • sage grouse — a large grouse, Centrocercus urophasianus, of the sagebrush regions of western North America, having plumage of gray, buff, and black.
  • samuel ting — Samuel C(hao) C(hung) [chou choo ng] /tʃaʊ tʃʊŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1936, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1976.
  • sand grouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
  • sanguineous — of, relating to, or containing blood.
  • scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
  • scatter rug — a small rug, placed on the floor in front of a chair, under a table, etc.
  • scatter-gun — a shotgun
  • screw auger — an auger having a helical outer surface suggesting a screw thread.
  • seigneurial — a lord, especially a feudal lord.
  • self-taught — taught to oneself or by oneself to be (as indicated) without the aid of a formal education: self-taught typing; a self-taught typist.
  • singularize — to make singular.
  • singulative — a grammatical form or construction that expresses a singular entity or indicates that an individual is singled out from a group, especially as opposed to a collective noun, as snowflake as opposed to snow.
  • slaughtered — the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
  • sluggardise — indolence or laziness
  • sluggardize — to make lazy or sluggish
  • sneezeguard — a plastic or glass shield overhanging a salad bar, buffet, or the like to protect the food from contamination.
  • sound stage — a large, soundproof studio used for filming motion pictures.
  • sour grapes — bitterness about sth unattainable
  • sour orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
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