11-letter words containing s, i, g, r, d
- long radius — the distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a vertex
- ludwigsburg — a city in Baden-Württemberg state, SW Germany.
- macdesigner — A design CASE tool for the Mac from Excel Software, Inc.
- madrigalist — a composer or singer of madrigals.
- maunderings — Plural form of maundering.
- meanderings — Plural form of meandering.
- megadiverse — Exhibiting great diversity, especially great biodiversity.
- misgoverned — Simple past tense and past participle of misgovern.
- misordering — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- mistargeted — Simple past tense and past participle of mistarget.
- mistreading — a wrongdoing or misdemeanour
- modernising — Present participle of modernise.
- mudspringer — mudskipper.
- nearsighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- niggardness — Niggardliness.
- niggerheads — Plural form of niggerhead.
- nightdreams — Plural form of nightdream.
- overbridges — Plural form of overbridge.
- plagiarised — to take and use by plagiarism.
- predesigned — 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.
- predigested — to treat (food) by an artificial process analogous to digestion so that, when taken into the body, it is more easily digestible.
- proceedings — a particular action or course or manner of action.
- quadrigatus — a silver coin of ancient Rome, bearing an image of Jupiter in a quadriga on the reverse.
- radiologist — the science dealing with x-rays or nuclear radiation, especially for medical uses.
- reconsigned — to hand over or deliver formally or officially; commit (often followed by to).
- redesignate — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- redigestion — the act or process of redigesting
- redshirting — a high-school or college athlete kept out of varsity competition for one year to develop skills and extend eligibility. a child held back from starting kindergarten for one year, the practice of which is believed by some parents to give the child academic, athletic, and social advantages.
- registrated — to select and combine pipe organ stops.
- ridesharing — of or relating to the sharing of rides or transportation, especially among commuters: The agency was set up to devise a ridesharing program.
- riding sail — a triangular sail set on the aftermost mast of a vessel, especially a fishing vessel, to head it into the wind; trysail.
- rifled slug — a shotgun projectile with helical grooves on its sides for imparting a spin to it when it is fired through the smooth bore of the shotgun.
- ringed seal — an Arctic seal, Phoca hispida, having irregular, pale, ring-shaped markings around its body.
- ringstraked — ring-streaked.
- rising damp — moisture problem affecting walls
- sandringham — a village in N Norfolk, England: site of Sandringham House, Royal Family mansion.
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
- screen grid — a grid placed between the anode and the control electrode in a vacuum tube, usually maintained at a fixed positive potential.
- service dog — a dog trained to assist a person with a disability that is not related to vision or hearing.
- shepherding — a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.
- ship-rigged — (of a sailing vessel) rigged as a ship; full-rigged.
- sight draft — a draft payable upon presentation.
- sir galahad — (in Arthurian legend) the most virtuous knight of the Round Table, destined to regain the Holy Grail; son of Lancelot and Elaine
- sixth grade — (in the US) the sixth school year after kindergarten, usually containing pupils around 11 or 12 years old
- sleigh ride — trip on a sledge
- sluggardise — indolence or laziness
- sluggardize — to make lazy or sluggish
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- sniffer dog — a dog trained to find illegal drugs or explosives by smell.