11-letter words containing t, u, n, g, s
- supplanting — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- suppurating — to produce or discharge pus, as a wound; maturate.
- surfcasting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- surgicenter — a surgical facility, not based in a hospital, where minor surgery is performed on an outpatient basis.
- surmounting — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- surrogation — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
- syngnathous — (of fish) having a tubular snout, e.g. pipefish, seahorse
- tankbusting — the practice of destroying tanks
- tentiginous — relating to feelings of lust
- terrigenous — produced by the earth.
- tetragonous — related to a tetragon
- tongue sole — tonguefish.
- tongue-lash — to reprimand severely; scold
- tongues wag — If tongues are wagging, people are talking a lot about someone and their behaviour.
- transfigure — to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
- turgescence — becoming swollen; swelling.
- turing plus — Systems programming language, a concurrent descendant of Turing. Available from Holt Software Assocs, Toronto <[email protected]>.
- turing test — (artificial intelligence) A criterion proposed by Alan Turing in 1950 for deciding whether a computer is intelligent. Turing called it "the Imitation Game" and offered it as a replacement for the question, "Can machines think?" A human holds a written conversation on any topic with an unseen correspondent (nowadays it might be by electronic mail or chat). If the human believes he is talking to another human when he is really talking to a computer then the computer has passed the Turing test and is deemed to be intelligent. Turing predicted that within 50 years (by the year 2000) technological progress would produce computing machines with a capacity of 10**9 bits, and that with such machinery, a computer program would be able to fool the average questioner for 5 minutes about 70% of the time. The Loebner Prize is a competition to find a computer program which can pass an unrestricted Turing test. See also AI-complete.
- turn signal — A car's turn signals are the flashing lights that tell you it is going to turn left or right.
- unassisting — providing no help or assistance
- uncongested — to fill to excess; overcrowd or overburden; clog: The subway entrance was so congested that no one could move.
- under-sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- underthings — girls' or women's underwear
- unlightsome — without light; dark
- unlistening — not listening
- unresenting — not bearing resentment or anger (toward)
- unresisting — to withstand, strive against, or oppose: to resist infection; to resist temptation.
- unrestingly — in an unresting manner
- unrighteous — not righteous; not upright or virtuous; wicked; sinful; evil: an unrighteous king.
- unsatiating — to supply with anything to excess, so as to disgust or weary; surfeit.
- unsegmented — one of the parts into which something naturally separates or is divided; a division, portion, or section: a segment of an orange.
- unsoftening — not softening
- unsquinting — to look with the eyes partly closed.
- unstartling — not startling
- unstrategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- unsuggested — to mention or introduce (an idea, proposition, plan, etc.) for consideration or possible action: The architect suggested that the building be restored.
- uprightness — erect or vertical, as in position or posture.
- uptightness — the quality or state of being uptight
- vanguardist — the beliefs and activities of persons who consider themselves to be leaders in a particular field or school of thought.
- vertiginous — whirling; spinning; rotary: vertiginous currents of air.
- vortiginous — resembling a vortex; whirling; vortical.