10-letter words containing s, e, r, g, a
- organizers — Plural form of organizer.
- originates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of originate.
- orphanages — Plural form of orphanage.
- othergates — different or other
- outrageous — of the nature of or involving gross injury or wrong: an outrageous slander.
- overdosage — Excessive dosage; taking too much of a pharmaceutical drug.
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- parageusia — an abnormal or hallucinatory sense of taste.
- pasargadae — an ancient ruined city in S Iran, NE of Persepolis: an early capital of ancient Persia; tomb of Cyrus the Great.
- pellagrous — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
- persiflage — light, bantering talk or writing.
- petrissage — a massage technique that uses firm pressure and works on specific muscles
- phragmites — any of several tall grasses of the genus Phragmites, having plumed heads, growing in marshy areas, especially the common reed P. australis (or P. communis).
- pier glass — a tall mirror, often full-length, intended to be set between windows.
- pig's ears — either of two common edible North American fungi, Peziza badia and Discina perlata.
- plagiarise — to take and use by plagiarism.
- plastering — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- preachings — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- preleasing — to sign or grant a lease on (a building, apartment, etc.) in advance of construction: Agents have preleased more than 60 percent of the new building.
- press-gang — to force (a person) into military or naval service.
- prestorage — occurring before storage
- propagates — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- raised bog — a bog of convex shape produced by growth of sphagnum and other bog plants in acid conditions and the subsequent build up of acid peat
- rampageous — violent; unruly; boisterous.
- rangership — the office or position of a ranger
- rastergram — Single Image Random Dot Stereogram
- real wages — wages evaluated with reference to their purchasing power rather than to the money actually paid
- rear sight — the sight nearest the breech of a firearm.
- reassuring — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- red guards — a member of a Chinese Communist youth movement in the late 1960s, committed to the militant support of Mao Zedong.
- reed grass — a tall perennial grass, Glyceria maxima, of rivers and ponds of Europe, Asia, and Canada
- regardless — having or showing no regard; heedless; unmindful (often followed by of).
- registrant — a person who registers or is registered.
- registrary — (at Cambridge University) a registrar
- registrate — to select and combine pipe organ stops.
- regularise — to make regular.
- rephrasing — to phrase again or differently: He rephrased the statement to give it less formality.
- repoussage — the art or process of working in repoussé.
- res gestae — things done or accomplished; achievements
- resonating — to resound.
- ring false — to give the impression of being false
- ring snake — grass snake (def 1).
- ringmaster — a person in charge of the performances in a circus ring.
- rosemaling — decorative work of Norwegian folk origin consisting of painted or carved floral designs, as on furniture or woodwork.
- sage derby — a green-and-white Derby cheese flavoured with sage
- sage green — grayish to yellowish green.
- saltigrade — moving by leaping.