12-letter words containing a, g, e, r, o
- rock glacier — a mass of rock resembling a valley glacier that moves or is moved down a slope by its own weight or by the action of frost and interstitial ice.
- rocket range — a firing range for rockets
- roentgen ray — (sometimes lowercase) x-ray.
- rogue trader — A rogue trader is an employee of a financial institution who carries out business without the knowledge or approval of his or her bosses.
- rogue's yarn — a yarn of distinctive color, material, or twist, laid in a strand or strands of a rope to identify the owner or the maker.
- role playing — role-play used as a method of training or education
- role-playing — a method of instruction or psychotherapy aimed at changing attitudes and behavior, in which participants act out designated roles relevant to real-life situations.
- rolled glass — a sheet of glass made by the extrusion of molten glass between two rollers.
- rose pogonia — a North American terrestrial orchid, Pogonia ophioglossoides, having a fragrant, usually solitary rose-pink or white flower.
- rouge dragon — a pursuivant at the English college of arms
- sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- sage sparrow — a small gray finch, Amphispiza belli, of dry, brushy areas of western North America.
- sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
- sargasso sea — a relatively calm area of water in the N Atlantic, NE of the West Indies.
- sausage roll — A sausage roll is a small amount of sausage meat which is covered with pastry and cooked.
- scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- sea crossing — a journey by sea from one coast to another
- sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
- second grade — school year: age 7-8
- secretagogue — a substance or situation that promotes secretion.
- seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
- selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
- semi-organic — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
- semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
- seronegative — showing no significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, that would indicate previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
- sewage works — a place where chemicals are used to clean sewage so that it can then be allowed to go into rivers, etc or used to make manure
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
- siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
- signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
- slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
- sloganeering — Sloganeering is the use of slogans by people such as politicians or advertising agencies.
- smoking area — a designated area in which smoking is permitted
- snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
- solar energy — energy derived from the sun in the form of solar radiation.
- solenogaster — any of a group of wormlike mollusks, class Solenogastres (formerly Aplacophora), inhabiting deep ocean layers and having fine limy spicules on the covering mantle.
- sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
- spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- speech organ — any part of the body, as the tongue, velum, diaphragm, or lungs, that participates, actively or passively, voluntarily or involuntarily, in the production of the sounds of speech.
- spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
- sphenography — the art of writing in cuneiform characters.