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12-letter words containing a, l, r, g

  • single-payer — noting or relating to a healthcare or health insurance system in which the government or a publicly owned and regulated agency pays all medical costs from a single fund.
  • single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • sledgehammer — a large heavy hammer wielded with both hands.
  • sleeping car — a railroad car fitted with berths, compartments, bedrooms, or drawing rooms for passengers to sleep in.
  • slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
  • sloganeering — Sloganeering is the use of slogans by people such as politicians or advertising agencies.
  • 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.
  • splash guard — a large flap behind a rear tire to prevent mud, water, etc., from being splashed on the following vehicle.
  • sporangiolum — a small sporangium
  • sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
  • spread eagle — the representation of an eagle with outstretched wings, used as an emblem of the US
  • spread-eagle — having or suggesting the form of a spread eagle.
  • spreadeagled — Someone who is spreadeagled is lying with their arms and legs spread out.
  • spring-clean — to subject (a place) to a spring-cleaning.
  • stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
  • staggeringly — tending to stagger or overwhelm: a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.
  • steel guitar — an acoustic, handheld guitar having a metal resonator and producing a wailing, variable sound.
  • stigmasterol — a crystalline, water-insoluble steroid, C 2 9 H 4 8 O, present in soybeans or calabar beans, used chiefly as a raw material in the manufacture of progesterone.
  • storage cell — a cell whose energy can be renewed by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to that of the flow of current generated by the cell.
  • storage wall — a set of shelves, cabinets, or the like that covers or forms a wall.
  • storm signal — a visual signal, as a flag, giving advance notice of a heavy storm, used especially along coastal areas.
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • streamlining — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
  • string along — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
  • stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
  • sugar glider — a gliding possum, Petaurus breviceps, inhabiting open forests of New Guinea, Tasmania, and Australia.
  • superglacial — on the surface of a glacier.
  • supraglottal — situated above the glottis
  • surpassingly — of a large amount or high degree; exceeding, excelling, or extraordinary: structures of surpassing magnificence.
  • survival bag — a large plastic bag carried by climbers for use in an emergency as protection against exposure
  • sweater girl — a young woman with a shapely bosom, especially one who wears tight sweaters.
  • synergically — in a synergic manner
  • talk through — guide through: a procedure, etc.
  • target rifle — a rifle designed especially for shooting at targets.
  • telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
  • telegraphese — a style of writing or speaking distinguished by the omissions, abbreviations, and combinations that are characteristic of telegrams, as in “ expect arrive six evening. ”.
  • telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
  • telergically — in a telergic manner
  • the red flag — a socialist song, written by James Connell (1852–1929), Irish political activist, in 1889
  • theologaster — a person who pretends to be a theologian; a shallow or quack theologian
  • thermalgesia — pain caused by heat.
  • tidal energy — energy obtained by harnessing tidal power
  • tiger lizard — either of two lacertid lizards, Nucras intertexta and N. tessellata, of southern Africa, having a gray or brown body marked with black spots and bars.
  • toga virilis — the white toga assumed by boys in ancient Rome at the end of their 14th year.
  • tollgatherer — a person who collects tolls, taxes, or other imposts.
  • tragelaphine — of or relating to a tragelaph
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