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16-letter words containing a, g, r, o, s, t

  • pork scratchings — small pieces of crisply cooked pork crackling, eaten cold as an appetizer with drinks
  • portuguese india — a former Portuguese overseas territory on the W coast of India, consisting of the districts of Gôa, Daman, and Diu: annexed by India December 1961. Capital: Gôa.
  • posigrade rocket — an auxiliary rocket used to separate the sections of a multistage rocket, fired in the direction of flight.
  • pre-registration — the act of registering.
  • prestidigitation — sleight of hand; legerdemain.
  • processing plant — a factory where raw materials are treated or prepared by a special method, esp one where food is treated in order to preserve it
  • prognostic chart — a chart showing the predicted state of the atmosphere for a given time in the future.
  • progress payment — an instalment of a larger payment made to a contractor for work carried out up to a specified stage of the job
  • proof of postage — a document, such as a receipt, etc, that proves that you have posted or mailed something
  • proposal writing — Extension of Fortran for proposal writing.
  • provost sergeant — the senior noncommissioned officer of a prison or other confinement facility whose chief duty is the supervision of prisoners and of the military police unit.
  • psychogeriatrics — the psychology of old age.
  • put out to grass — If you say that someone is being put out to grass, you mean they are no longer being employed because they are considered to be too old or no longer useful.
  • radio evangelist — a Christian minister who devotes time to preaching on the radio
  • rattle so's cage — If someone rattles your cage, they do something which is intended to make you feel nervous.
  • regional ileitis — a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that causes scarring and thickening of the intestinal walls and frequently leads to obstruction.
  • register tonnage — the volume of a vessel, especially the net tonnage as measured officially and registered for purposes of taxation.
  • registration fee — a fee paid to register, enrol or sign up for (a course, etc)
  • releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
  • reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
  • reverse mortgage — a type of home mortgage under which an elderly homeowner is allowed a long-term loan in the form of monthly payments against his or her paid-off equity as collateral, repayable when the home is eventually sold. Abbreviation: RAM.
  • rhinopharyngitis — inflammation of the mucous membranes of the nose and pharynx.
  • rigid designator — an expression that identifies the same individual in every possible world: for example, "Shakespeare" is a rigid designator since it is possible that Shakespeare might not have been a playwright but not that he might not have been Shakespeare
  • sangre de cristo — a mountain range in S Colorado and N New Mexico: a part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Blanca Peak, 14,390 feet (4385 meters).
  • saratoga springs — a city in E New York: health resort; horse races.
  • saxo grammaticus — c1150–1206? Danish historian and poet.
  • scratch together — to assemble with difficulty
  • seat of learning — People sometimes refer to a university or a similar institution as a seat of learning.
  • secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
  • self-degradation — the act of degrading.
  • self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
  • self-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
  • self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • shaggy dog story — a funny story, traditionally about a talking dog, that, after an often long and involved narration of unimportant incidents, has an absurd or irrelevant punch line.
  • shaggy-dog story — a funny story, traditionally about a talking dog, that, after an often long and involved narration of unimportant incidents, has an absurd or irrelevant punch line.
  • shoestring catch — a catch of a ball on the fly, made close to the ground while running.
  • shooting gallery — a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
  • shorthand typing — shorthand and typing
  • shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • signal generator — radio
  • singapore strait — a strait between Singapore Island and the Riau Archipelago at the S end of the Malay Peninsula: shipping channel between the South China Sea and the Malacca Strait. 65 miles (105 km) long and 10 miles (16 km) wide.
  • slang dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering the words, phrases, and idioms that reflect the least formal speech of a language. These terms are often metaphorical and playful, and are likely to be evanescent as the spoken language changes from one generation to another. Much slang belongs to specific groups, as the jargon of a particular class, profession, or age group. Some is vulgar. Some slang terms have staying power as slang, but others make a transition into common informal speech, and then into the standard language. An online slang dictionary, such as the Dictionary.com Slang Dictionary, provides immediate information about the meaning and history of a queried term and its appropriateness or lack of appropriateness in a range of social and professional circumstances.
  • smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • soft brown sugar — a type of moist sugar made by coating white sugar with dark molasses
  • soft pornography — soft-core pornography.
  • software package — bundle of files to execute computer program
  • sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
  • sphygmomanometer — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
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