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12-letter words containing a, r, n, g, i

  • safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
  • sailboarding — windsurfing.
  • salve regina — a prayer in the form of a hymn to the Virgin Mary.
  • sand springs — a town in NE Oklahoma.
  • sandpapering — the act or process of polishing or grinding a surface with or as if with sandpaper
  • sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
  • sanguivorous — feeding on blood, as a bat or insect.
  • saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
  • saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
  • saving grace — a quality that makes up for other generally negative characteristics; redeeming feature.
  • scatteringly — in a scattering manner
  • scavengering — scavenging
  • scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
  • scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
  • scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
  • scramblingly — in a scrambling manner
  • scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
  • scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
  • sea crossing — a journey by sea from one coast to another
  • 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
  • semi-organic — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
  • sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
  • seringapatam — a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.
  • seronegative — showing no significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, that would indicate previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
  • servant girl — a girl or woman employed as a servant who performs household duties
  • sexagenarian — of the age of 60 years or between 60 and 70 years old.
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • sherardizing — to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
  • shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
  • short-acting — (of a drug) quickly effective, but requiring regularly repeated doses for long-term treatment, being rapidly absorbed, distributed in the body, and excreted
  • sigma baryon — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
  • signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
  • signal corps — a branch of the army responsible for military communications, meteorological studies, and related work.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • significator — a planet deemed significant in astrology
  • 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.
  • skating rink — arena for ice skating
  • skating turn — a turn made by someone on roller or ice skates
  • 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.
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