10-letter words containing t, g, r
- strung-out — severely debilitated from alcohol or drugs.
- sturbridge — a town in central Massachusetts: reconstruction of early American village.
- stylograph — a fountain pen in which the writing point is a fine, hollow tube instead of a nib.
- subjugator — to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
- subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
- suffragist — an advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage, especially to women.
- sugar beet — various cultivars of a beet, Beta vulgaris, of the amaranth family, having a white root, cultivated for the sugar it yields.
- sugar tree — a sugar maple.
- sugar-coat — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
- superagent — an expert or highly effective agent, esp of a sports player or actor
- supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
- superlight — extremely light
- supertight — extremely tight
- supporting — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- sure thing — something that is or is supposed to be a certain success, as a bet or a business venture: He thinks that real estate is a sure thing.
- surfeiting — excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.
- surge tank — a large surge chamber.
- surge tide — a powerful and often destructive tide that may occur when an abnormally high tide (e.g. at the autumn equinox) coincides with high wind and low atmospheric pressure
- surrogatum — a substitute
- sweltering — suffering oppressive heat.
- switchgear — switching equipment used in an electric power station.
- switchgirl — a woman who operates a telephone switchboard
- synergetic — working together; cooperative.
- syringitis — an inflammation of part of the ear
- tachograph — a recording tachometer.
- tachygraph — tachygraphic writing.
- tagliarini — egg noodles cut in long, flat, slender pieces, narrower than tagliatelle.
- take guard — (of a batsman) to choose a position in front of the wicket to receive the bowling, esp by requesting the umpire to indicate his position relative to the stumps
- tannenberg — a village formerly in East Prussia, now in N Poland: major German victory over the Russians 1914.
- tape grass — a freshwater plant, Vallisneria spiralis, that has long, ribbonlike leaves and grows under water.
- tardigrade — Also called bear animalcule, water bear. any microscopic, chiefly herbivorous invertebrate of the phylum Tardigrada, living in water, on mosses, lichens, etc.
- target man — an attacking player to whom high crosses and centres are played, esp a tall forward
- targetable — an object, usually marked with concentric circles, to be aimed at in shooting practice or contests.
- targetitis — the setting of more targets than is strictly necessary for the effective functioning of an organization, esp when it leads to an increase in bureaucracy
- targetless — an object, usually marked with concentric circles, to be aimed at in shooting practice or contests.
- tarkington — (Newton) Booth, 1869–1946, U.S. novelist and playwright.
- tea garden — a tea plantation.
- tea-bagger — Slang. a person who tea-bags a sexual partner.
- teacherage — a building serving as a combination school and living quarters, as on certain government reservations and in remote, sparsely settled areas.
- teddy girl — a rebellious British girl who, in the 1950s and early 1960s, affected the dress of the reign of Edward VII.
- teethridge — alveolar ridge.
- telebridge — a television broadcast using satellite technology to enable discussion between studio audiences in different countries
- telegraphy — the art or practice of constructing or operating telegraphs.
- telferages — telpher.
- telpherage — a transportation system in which cars or other carriers are suspended from or run on wire cables or the like, especially one operated by electricity.
- tender age — youth
- tenderling — a weak or effeminate person
- tengri nor — a salt lake in E Tibet, NW of Lhasa. About 700 sq. mi. (1813 sq. km); 15,186 feet (4629 meters) above sea level.
- tensegrity — the property of skeleton structures that employ continuous tension members and discontinuous compression members in such a way that each member operates with the maximum efficiency and economy.
- tepe gawra — an archaeological site in N Iraq, near Mosul: excavations have revealed that numerous settlements have occupied this site since c5000 b.c.