12-letter words containing a, p, g, e
- septuagesima — the third Sunday before Lent.
- seringapatam — a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.
- 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
- siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
- simple sugar — monosaccharide.
- 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-phase — noting or pertaining to a circuit having an alternating current with one phase or with phases differing by 180°.
- single-space — to type (copy) on each line space.
- sleeping bag — a warmly lined or padded body-length bag, usually waterproof and with a closure, in which one or two persons can sleep, especially outdoors, as when camping.
- sleeping car — a railroad car fitted with berths, compartments, bedrooms, or drawing rooms for passengers to sleep in.
- sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
- small magpie — an unrelated micro, Eurrhypara hortulata
- snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
- space charge — a distribution of an excess of electrons or ions over a three-dimensional region, in contrast to the distribution of an electric charge over the surface of a conductor.
- space flight — journey into outer space
- space-saving — that saves space.
- spade guinea — a guinea decorated with a spade-shaped shield, coined during the reign of George III
- spearfishing — any of several fishes of the genus Tetrapturus, resembling the sailfish but having the first dorsal fin much less developed: inhabiting all seas, but rare.
- spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
- specialising — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- 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.
- speed dating — an organized social event in which participants have one-on-one conversations typically limited to less than ten minutes, for the purpose of meeting people they would like to date.
- speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- speedskating — a form of ice skating in which contestants race against each other or the clock over various distances
- spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
- sphenography — the art of writing in cuneiform characters.
- splenomegaly — enlargement of the spleen.
- sponged ware — spongeware.
- 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.
- sprechgesang — a vocal style intermediate between speech and singing but without exact pitch intonation.
- spring break — a vacation from school or college during the spring term, lasting about a week.
- spring water — water from natural underground source
- spring-clean — to subject (a place) to a spring-cleaning.
- spur gearing — a system of spur gears.
- stage pocket — one of several metal boxes placed backstage in the floor (floor pocket) or wall of a theater and containing jacks for electric cables used in lighting units.
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- steatopygous — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
- stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
- stenographer — a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
- stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.