9-letter words containing a, s, g
- sea-green — a clear, light, bluish green.
- seafaring — traveling by sea.
- seal ring — a finger ring bearing an incised design for embossing a wax seal.
- searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- searingly — in a searing manner
- seasoning — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- secretage — the use of mercury in treating or felting furs
- sedgeland — land covered with sedge
- segholate — a noun in Hebrew that has a long vowel in the first syllable and a short seghol in the second syllable
- segmental — of, relating to, or characterized by segments or segmentation.
- segregant — an organism which is different because of segregation
- segregate — to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
- semiangle — half of a particular angle
- sergeancy — the position or rank of a sergeant
- sergeanty — a form of land tenure in which a tenant holding of the king rendered him exclusive services in a status below that of a knight.
- serigraph — a print made by the silkscreen process.
- serrating — Chiefly Biology. notched on the edge like a saw: a serrate leaf.
- sewer gas — a mixture of toxic and non-toxic gases (mainly methane) produced and collected in sewers by the decomposition of waste matter such as faeces or dirty water from homes and factories
- sfd-algol — System Function Description-ALGOL. Extension of ALGOL for synchronous systems. Sammet 1969, p.625.
- sgian-dhu — a dirk carried in the stocking by Highlanders
- sgraffito — a technique of ornamentation in which a surface layer of paint, plaster, slip, etc., is incised to reveal a ground of contrasting color.
- shadowing — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shaggable — sexually attractive
- shakingly — the act of a person or thing that shakes.
- shale gas — Shale gas is a natural gas that is removed from rock by forcing liquid and sand into the rock.
- shambling — to walk or go awkwardly; shuffle.
- shaveling — Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
- shearlegs — shear (def 16).
- shearling — Chiefly British. a yearling sheep that has been shorn once.
- sheathing — the act of a person who sheathes.
- sheboygan — a port in E Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- shinguard — sport: protective pad for lower leg
- shogunate — the office or rule of a shogun.
- shreading — furring attached to the undersides of rafters.
- shrinkage — the act or fact of shrinking.
- shroffage — the commission charged by a money dealer
- sialogram — an X-ray of a salivary gland
- sight gag — a comic effect produced by visual means rather than by spoken lines, as in a play or motion picture.
- sightsman — a tourist guide
- sigillate — (of a ceramic object) having stamped decorations.
- sigmatism — defective pronunciation of sibilant sounds.
- sigmatron — a machine for generating X-rays
- sigmoidal — shaped like the letter C.
- sign away — a token; indication.
- signaling — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- signalize — to make notable or conspicuous.
- signalled — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- signaller — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- signalman — a person whose occupation or duty is signaling, as on a railroad or in the army.
- signatory — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.