12-letter words containing a, s, g
- sailing date — the date that a ship or boat departs on a sailing voyage
- sailing ship — a large ship equipped with sails.
- salary range — pay scale
- sales ledger — record of business accounts
- sales target — a fixed amount of sales that a person or organization wants to achieve
- salpiglossis — any solanaceous plant of the Chilean genus Salpiglossis, some species of which are cultivated for their bright funnel-shaped flowers
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- salve regina — a prayer in the form of a hymn to the Virgin Mary.
- sand casting — Sand casting is a process in which a molten metal is poured into a mold made from sand.
- sand springs — a town in NE Oklahoma.
- sandblasting — the act or process of using a sandblast to clean, grind, or decorate a surface
- sandpainting — a type of painting done by American Indians, esp in the healing ceremonies of the Navaho, using fine coloured sand on a neutral ground
- sandpapering — the act or process of polishing or grinding a surface with or as if with sandpaper
- sandy blight — trachoma.
- sanguicolous — living in the blood, as a parasite.
- sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
- sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
- sanguivorous — feeding on blood, as a bat or insect.
- sankt gallen — German name of St. Gallen.
- saprobiology — the branch of ecology that studies decaying organic matter or environments, especially saprophytes that derive nourishment in this way.
- saprophagous — (of an organism) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter.
- sarcophagous — carnivorous.
- sargasso sea — a relatively calm area of water in the N Atlantic, NE of the West Indies.
- 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.
- sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
- saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
- sausage code — (humour, programming) Code which, once you know the details of how it's made, you'll never want to use again.
- sausage curl — a lock of hair formed into a curl resembling a sausage in shape.
- sausage meat — minced and processed pork
- sausage roll — A sausage roll is a small amount of sausage meat which is covered with pastry and cooked.
- sausage tree — a tropical African tree, Kigelia pinnata, having red, bell-shaped flowers and large, sausage-shaped fruits hanging from very long stalks.
- saving grace — a quality that makes up for other generally negative characteristics; redeeming feature.
- savings bank — a bank that receives savings accounts only and pays interest to its depositors.
- savings bond — a U.S. government bond with principal amounts up to $10,000.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
- scapegoating — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- scapegoatism — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- scarlet sage — a tender shrub, Salvia splendens, of Brazil, having ovate leaves and bell-shaped scarlet flowers.
- scat singing — singing in which the singer substitutes improvised nonsense syllables for the words of a song, and tries to sound and phrase like a musical instrument.
- scatological — the study of or preoccupation with excrement or obscenity.
- scatophagous — feeding on dung or excrement
- scattergraph — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- scatteringly — in a scattering manner
- scavengering — scavenging
- scene change — a change of scene in a theatre, where one set is dismantled and another is erected
- 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
- scots gaelic — Scottish Gaelic