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11-letter words containing t, e, p, g

  • spirketting — deck planking near the bulwarks
  • spitsbergen — a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, N of and belonging to Norway. 24,293 sq. mi. (62,920 sq. km).
  • spitzbergen — a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, N of and belonging to Norway. 24,293 sq. mi. (62,920 sq. km).
  • spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
  • splintering — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
  • sponge bath — a bath in which the bather is cleaned by a wet sponge or washcloth dipped in water, without getting into a tub of water.
  • sponge tree — huisache.
  • sports page — newspaper page carrying sports results
  • spot height — the elevation of a certain point.
  • spotted gum — an Australian eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus maculata
  • sprightless — without any spirit or liveliness
  • spring rate — The spring rate is a measurement of the amount of force needed to compress a spring a particular distance.
  • spring tide — the large rise and fall of the tide at or soon after the new or the full moon.
  • springsteen — Bruce. born 1949, US rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His albums include Born to Run (1975), Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978), Born in the USA (1984), The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995), The Rising (2002), Magic (2007), and Wrecking Ball (2012)
  • springwater — water from a spring
  • steatopygia — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
  • steatopygic — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
  • stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • step change — A step change is a sudden or major change in the way that something happens or the way that someone behaves.
  • stepdancing — a dance emphasizing footwork or certain steps instead of other bodily gestures or movement
  • stepsibling — a stepbrother or stepsister.
  • stereograph — a single or double picture for a stereoscope.
  • stevengraph — a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
  • stoke poges — a village in S Buckinghamshire, in S England, W of London: the churchyard here is believed to be the setting of Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
  • strap hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • strap-hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • straphanger — a passenger who stands in a crowded bus or subway train and holds onto a strap or other support suspended from above.
  • stringpiece — a long, usually horizontal piece of timber, beam, etc., for strengthening, connecting, or supporting a framework.
  • superbright — exceptionally bright
  • superegoist — an exceptionally selfish or self-centred person; someone who is very self-important
  • supergrowth — exceptional growth; very rapid growth
  • superstring — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.
  • superstrong — extremely strong
  • swipe right — to move a finger from left to right across a touchscreen in order to approve an image
  • tegucigalpa — a republic in NE Central America. 43,277 sq. mi. (112,087 sq. km). Capital: Tegucigalpa.
  • telegraphed — an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.
  • telegraphic — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • telephoning — an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device.
  • telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
  • temporizing — an agreement for a limited period of time
  • tetraplegia — quadriplegia.
  • theophagous — relating to theophagy or the practice of symbolically consuming the body of God or a god
  • thermograph — a thermometer that records the temperatures it measures.
  • tiger prawn — a large edible prawn of the genus Penaeus with dark bands across the body, fished commercially in the Indian and Pacific oceans
  • timekeeping — a person or thing that keeps time.
  • topdressing — an application of fertiliser to soil
  • topographer — a specialist in topography.
  • trumpet leg — a turned leg that flares upward and outward from a narrow lower end.
  • trypsinogen — a precursor of trypsin that is secreted by the pancreas and is activated to trypsin in the small intestine.
  • tuning pipe — pitch pipe.
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