12-letter words containing a, c, r, e, g, s
- great schism — a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
- greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- griddlecakes — Plural form of griddlecake.
- groom's cake — a fruit cake in layers of graduated size, served at a wedding.
- hagiocracies — Plural form of hagiocracy.
- helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
- hire charges — the amount of money it costs to hire something, such as a bike, car, etc
- horse racing — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
- hyperalgesic — Of or pertaining to hyperalgesia.
- increasingly — growing larger or greater; enlarging; augmenting.
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe
- interchanges — Plural form of interchange.
- interlacings — Plural form of interlacing.
- interspacing — Present participle of interspace.
- irish gaelic — Irish (def 4).
- laryngoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope passed through the mouth and equipped with a source of light and magnification, for examining and performing local diagnostic and surgical procedures on the larynx.
- macrogametes — Plural form of macrogamete.
- macrosegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.
- magic square — a square containing integers arranged in an equal number of rows and columns so that the sum of the integers in any row, column, or diagonal is the same.
- magistracies — Plural form of magistracy.
- megachurches — Plural form of megachurch.
- miscarriages — Plural form of miscarriage.
- miscegenator — a person who advocates or engages in miscegenation
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- nonstrategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
- organ screen — an ornamental screen closing off an organ chamber in a church.
- parascending — parasailing
- piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
- predischarge — of or pertaining to the period prior to discharge, esp prior to discharge from hospital or from employment
- press agency — news-reporting organization
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
- racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
- rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
- rescue grass — a grass, Bromus unioloides (or B. catharticus), of tropical America, having clusters of flattened spikelets, grown for forage.
- ring changes — to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone: to change one's name; to change one's opinion; to change the course of history.
- sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- sacring bell — a small bell rung at the elevation of the Host and chalice during Mass
- safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
- sausage curl — a lock of hair formed into a curl resembling a sausage in shape.
- saving grace — a quality that makes up for other generally negative characteristics; redeeming feature.
- scarlet sage — a tender shrub, Salvia splendens, of Brazil, having ovate leaves and bell-shaped scarlet flowers.
- scattergraph — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- scatteringly — in a scattering manner
- scavengering — scavenging
- scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- sea crossing — a journey by sea from one coast to another
- second grade — school year: age 7-8
- secret agent — an agent of a secret service.
- secretagogue — a substance or situation that promotes secretion.