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11-letter words containing a, s, g

  • astringence — Alternative spelling of astringency.
  • astringency — An astringent taste.
  • astringents — Plural form of astringent.
  • astrogation — (in science fiction) navigation in outer space.
  • astrography — The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.
  • astrologers — Plural form of astrologer.
  • astrologian — (obsolete) An astrologer.
  • astrologist — the study that assumes and attempts to interpret the influence of the heavenly bodies on human affairs.
  • audiologist — the study of hearing disorders, including evaluation of hearing function and rehabilitation of patients with hearing impairments.
  • augmentless — (grammar) lacking augment.
  • augustinian — of or relating to Saint Augustine of Hippo, his doctrines, or any of the Christian religious orders that were founded on his doctrines
  • auspicating — Present participle of auspicate.
  • authorising — Present participle of authorise.
  • autogenesis — spontaneous generation
  • autophagous — self-consuming or devouring of itself
  • autosuggest — to influence one's own thoughts or behaviour through methods other than conscious thought
  • averageness — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
  • axle grease — lubricant for axles
  • azores high — a subtropical high centered near the Azores.
  • babysitting — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
  • backcasting — Present participle of backcast.
  • backgammons — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backgammon.
  • backgrounds — Plural form of background.
  • backlashing — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
  • backlisting — Present participle of backlist.
  • backsliding — If you accuse someone of backsliding, you disapprove of them because they have failed to do something they promised or agreed to do, or have started again doing something undesirable that they had previously stopped doing.
  • backsolving — Present participle of backsolve.
  • backspacing — Present participle of backspace.
  • backwashing — A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.
  • bahia grass — a grass, Paspalum notatum, of tropical America, grown in the southern United States for lawns and pasturage.
  • baitcasting — (angling) A form of casting in which the weight of the bait pulls the fishing line off of the spool (subject to some control by thumb pressure).
  • baking dish — a usually ceramic dish in which items can be baked
  • baking soda — Baking soda is the same as bicarbonate of soda.
  • balbriggans — underwear made from balbriggan fabric, for example long men's underpants
  • banana slug — a large, bright yellow, slimy, shell-less mollusk, Ariolimax columbianus, of the northwestern forests of North America: the second largest slug in the world.
  • bangladeshi — Bangladeshi means belonging to or relating to Bangladesh, or to its people or culture.
  • banistering — Present participle of banister.
  • banquetings — Plural form of banqueting.
  • barge spike — a square spike with a chisel point.
  • bargeboards — Plural form of bargeboard.
  • bargemaster — the owner of a barge
  • basal ridge — a U -shaped ridge at the base of the posterior surface of the crown of a tooth.
  • baserunning — the act of running around bases
  • basin range — a mountain range of the type found in the Great Basin region of the western U.S., typically long and narrow and characterized by faulted, tilted blocks of strata.
  • basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
  • bass guitar — a guitar that has the same pitch and tuning as a double bass, usually electrically amplified
  • bath sponge — any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.
  • battologist — wearisome repetition of words in speaking or writing.
  • bay of pigs — a bay on the SW coast of Cuba: scene of an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by US-backed troops (April 17, 1961)
  • beach grass — any of a genus (Ammophila) of deeply rooted, tough, perennial grasses that grow on sandy beaches and are often planted to combat beach erosion
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