12-letter words containing a, n, g, l, e, r
- proteoglycan — a macromolecule composed of a polysaccharide joined to a polypeptide and forming the ground substance of connective tissue.
- ranging pole — a pole for marking positions in surveying
- re-alignment — an adjustment to a line; arrangement in a straight line.
- re-challenge — to challenge (someone or something) again
- reading lamp — A reading lamp is a small lamp that you keep on a desk or table. You can move part of it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading.
- reading list — a list of sources (recommended by a teacher or university lecturer) which provide additional or background information on a subject being studied
- reassuringly — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- recognizable — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- redelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- reflex angle — an angle greater than 180° and less than 360°.
- regenerately — in a regenerate manner
- regulation t — (in the U.S.) a federal law governing the amount of credit that may be advanced by brokers and dealers to customers for the purchase of securities on margin.
- regulation u — (in the U.S.) a federal law governing the amount of credit that may be advanced by a bank for the purchase of listed securities.
- relief angle — The relief angle is the angle between a cutting tool and the workpiece it has just cut.
- relitigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
- renegotiable — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
- reregulation — renewed regulation, the act or process of regulating again
- retrolingual — situated behind or near the base of the tongue.
- revitalizing — having the ability or tendency to restore strength
- right-angled — A right-angled triangle has one angle that is a right angle.
- ring-a-levio — a children's game in which members of one group try to find and capture hiding members of another group: a captured player is kept in a circle drawn on the ground and is set free when tagged by a teammate
- 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.
- ruling grade — the steepest grade on a given stretch of track, which determines the maximum tonnage that can be hauled in a train having a given horsepower at a stated minimum speed.
- sacring bell — a small bell rung at the elevation of the Host and chalice during Mass
- salary range — pay scale
- salve regina — a prayer in the form of a hymn to the Virgin Mary.
- saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
- scatteringly — in a scattering manner
- sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
- selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- self-raising — a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
- self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
- selling race — a claiming race at the end of which the winning horse is offered for sale.
- selling rate — the rate at which a bank is willing to sell foreign currency
- servant girl — a girl or woman employed as a servant who performs household duties
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
- single cream — dairy product: thin or light cream
- single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
- single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
- 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
- sleeping car — a railroad car fitted with berths, compartments, bedrooms, or drawing rooms for passengers to sleep in.
- 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.
- spring-clean — to subject (a place) to a spring-cleaning.