12-letter words containing a, g, e, r, s
- newsgatherer — A person involved in newsgathering.
- newspapering — Present participle of newspaper.
- noise margin — (electronics) The voltage difference between the guaranteed output level and the required input voltage level of a logic gate.
- nonpassenger — One who is not a passenger.
- nonstrategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- nugatoriness — Quality of being nugatory.
- numbers game — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
- oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
- opera singer — a professional singer of opera
- oral surgery — the branch of dentistry or of surgery dealing with the surgical treatment or repair of various conditions of the mouth or jaws.
- 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.
- osage orange — Also called bois d'arc, bowwood. a tree, Maclura pomifera, of the mulberry family, native to the south-central U.S., having hard, yellowish wood and often cultivated for hedges.
- outrageously — In an outrageous manner; to an outrageous degree.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
- overdiagnose — (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
- oversanguine — too optimistic
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- paraglossate — having paraglossae
- parascending — parasailing
- passage work — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
- pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- pearly gates — the entrance to heaven.
- perez galdos — Benito [buh-nee-toh;; Spanish be-nee-taw] /bəˈni toʊ;; Spanish bɛˈni tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1843–1920, Spanish journalist, dramatist, and novelist.
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
- phrasemonger — phrasemaker (def 2).
- phraseograph — a phrase for which there is a phraseogram.
- 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.
- pig islander — a New Zealander
- poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
- pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
- port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
- postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- pre-assigned — Law. to transfer: to assign a contract.
- predesignate — to designate beforehand.
- prediagnosis — Medicine/Medical. the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition. the decision reached from such an examination. Abbreviation: Dx.
- predischarge — of or pertaining to the period prior to discharge, esp prior to discharge from hospital or from employment
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
- press agency — news-reporting organization
- prestigiator — someone who practises sorcery or prestidigitation
- pro-suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
- protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
- pseudography — writing that does not follow conventional spelling or usage
- quadragesima — the first Sunday in Lent.
- racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
- rag business — the garment, clothing, or fashion industry.