10-letter words containing t, a, l, g
- nematology — the branch of zoology dealing with nematodes.
- nightclass — an evening lesson
- no-tillage — the planting of crops by direct seeding without plowing, using herbicides as necessary to control weeds.
- nongenital — not related to, or involving, the genitals
- nostalgiac — A nostalgic person.
- nostalgist — a person who collects or buys and sells items preserved from an earlier era.
- nucleating — Present participle of nucleate.
- obbligatos — Plural form of obbligato.
- obligately — In an obligate manner.
- obligating — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- obligation — something by which a person is bound or obliged to do certain things, and which arises out of a sense of duty or results from custom, law, etc.
- obligative — implying or involving obligation: an obligative commitment.
- obligators — Plural form of obligator.
- obligatory — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- oblongatas — Plural form of oblongata.
- octangular — having eight angles.
- odontalgia — pain in a tooth; toothache.
- old stager — stager (def 1).
- onslaughts — Plural form of onslaught.
- organ loft — a loft in a church or cathedral that houses the keyboard of a pipe organ
- orthogonal — Mathematics. Also, orthographic. pertaining to or involving right angles or perpendiculars: an orthogonal projection. (of a system of real functions) defined so that the integral of the product of any two different functions is zero. (of a system of complex functions) defined so that the integral of the product of a function times the complex conjugate of any other function equals zero. (of two vectors) having an inner product equal to zero. (of a linear transformation) defined so that the length of a vector under the transformation equals the length of the original vector. (of a square matrix) defined so that its product with its transpose results in the identity matrix.
- osculating — Present participle of osculate.
- otological — the science of the ear and its diseases.
- outgeneral — to outdo or surpass in generalship.
- outlasting — Present participle of outlast.
- outleaping — Present participle of outleap.
- outplaying — Present participle of outplay.
- outsailing — Present participle of outsail.
- page fault — (memory management) In a paged virtual memory system, an access to a page (block) of memory that is not currently mapped to physical memory. When a page fault occurs the operating system either fetches the page in from secondary storage (usually disk) if the access was legitimate or otherwise reports the access as illegal.
- palagonite — a yellow basaltic glass
- palatogram — Phonetics. a diagram or photograph obtained through palatography.
- pantagruel — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- party girl — a girl or woman who is interested in little else besides attending parties.
- patent log — any of various devices for determining the speed of a ship by means of a vaned rotor streamed at the end of a log line upon which it exerts a torsion transmitted to a registering device on board.
- pathologic — of or relating to pathology.
- patrolling — (of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.
- phalangist — a member of a Lebanese Christian paramilitary organization founded in 1936 and originally based on similar ideas to the fascist Falange in Spain
- phlegmatic — not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish.
- pilot flag — the flag symbolizing the letter G in the International Code of Signals, flown by itself to request a pilot from a pilot service: a flag of three yellow and three blue vertical stripes.
- pixelating — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- plagiarist — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
- planet zog — a place or situation that is far removed from reality or what is currently happening
- 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.
- plastogamy — the fusion of multiple cells without the fusion of their nuclei
- plastogene — a separate genetic particle associated with, and influencing the activity of, the plastids
- plateauing — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- plateglass — designating a kind of glass used for windows
- play agent — a broker representing a playwright in dealings with theater managers, producers, etc.
- playacting — to engage in make-believe.
- playwright — a writer of plays; dramatist.