12-letter words containing c, g, s
- piercingness — the quality or condition of being piercing
- pigeon-chest — chicken breast.
- plagiaristic — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
- plug casting — bait casting in which a plug is used as the lure.
- polygamistic — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- posing pouch — a thong that emphasizes the genitals
- post-glacial — after a given glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene.
- postorgasmic — of or relating to the period after an orgasm
- postsphygmic — of or relating to the pulse.
- postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- pragmaticism — the pragmatist philosophy of C. S. Peirce, chiefly a theory of meaning: so called by him to distinguish it from the pragmatism of William James.
- pragmaticist — a follower of the doctrine of pragmatism
- predischarge — of or pertaining to the period prior to discharge, esp prior to discharge from hospital or from employment
- preschooling — the education of preschool children.
- prescreening — to screen in advance; select before a more detailed selecting process.
- press agency — news-reporting organization
- proctologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the rectum and anus.
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
- pronouncings — utterances, esp of an official or judgmental nature
- psychognosis — the use of hypnosis to study mental phenomena
- psychography — the supposed writing of a spirit or medium
- psychologism — emphasis upon psychological factors in the development of a theory, as in history or philosophy.
- psychologist — a specialist in psychology.
- psychologize — to make psychological investigations or speculations, especially those that are naive or uninformed.
- public goods — services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pyrognostics — the characteristics of a mineral, such as fusibility and flame coloration, that are revealed by the application of heat
- quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
- quasilogical — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- quindecagons — Plural form of quindecagon.
- quitch grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
- racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
- radical sign — the symbol √ or indicating extraction of a root of the quantity that follows it, as √25=5 or .
- rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
- reg-symbolic — An early system on the IBM 704.
- reprocessing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
- rescue grass — a grass, Bromus unioloides (or B. catharticus), of tropical America, having clusters of flattened spikelets, grown for forage.
- ring changes — to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone: to change one's name; to change one's opinion; to change the course of history.
- rock springs — a city in SW Wyoming.
- sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- sacring bell — a small bell rung at the elevation of the Host and chalice during Mass
- safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
- sand casting — Sand casting is a process in which a molten metal is poured into a mold made from sand.
- sanguicolous — living in the blood, as a parasite.
- sarcophagous — carnivorous.
- 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.
- 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.
- saving grace — a quality that makes up for other generally negative characteristics; redeeming feature.