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14-letter words containing c, r, o, s, g

  • saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.
  • scaremongering — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
  • scorpion grass — either of two small Old World plants, Myosotis sylvatica or M. scorpioides, of the borage family, having a light-blue flower commonly regarded as an emblem of constancy and friendship.
  • scrape through — only just succeed
  • screen goddess — a film actress who is adored or idealized, esp by men
  • screen popping — (communications)   The use of CTI to make customer data appear on a call centre terminal at the same time as the customer call is transferred.
  • screening room — a room where films are screened for a private audience
  • second reading — the stage in the consideration of a legislative bill that provides an opportunity for debate and amendment.
  • secondary gain — any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of having an illness (distinguished from primary gain).
  • self-enforcing — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
  • self-reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
  • self-recording — recording automatically, as an instrument.
  • short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
  • sicstus prolog — A Prolog from the SICS (Swedish Inst of Comp Sci). E-mail: <[email protected]>. Mailing list: [email protected]
  • sleeping porch — a porch enclosed with glass or screening or a room with open sides or a row of windows used for sleeping in the open air.
  • sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
  • smoker's cough — a chronic cough caused by smoking.
  • social sharing — the activity of sharing photos, videos, links, etc., on a social-media website, within an interactive application, or through other online channels.
  • socioreligious — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of religious and social factors.
  • sorting office — postal
  • sorting tracks — the part of a railroad yard used for the final sorting of cars from a classification yard.
  • soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
  • source program — an original computer program written by a programmer that is converted into the equivalent object program, written in machine language, by the compiler or assembler
  • spectrological — relating to spectres or spectrology
  • spitting cobra — any cobra or cobralike snake, especially the ringhals, that sprays venom at the eyes of approaching animals.
  • stage director — a person who directs a theatrical production.
  • staghorn coral — staghorn coral.
  • staghorn sumac — a sumac, Rhus typhina, of eastern North America, having leaves that turn scarlet, orange, and purple in the autumn.
  • starting block — a device used by runners, especially sprinters, for increasing their speed off the mark, consisting of a metal or wooden frame, usually secured to the ground at both ends, with adjustable, triangular-shaped blocks on each side for bracing the feet.
  • state of grace — grace (def 8d).
  • steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
  • stick together — be united
  • stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets
  • stockbrokerage — a stockbroker's work or business
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • stomatogastric — relating to the mouth and stomach or the connections between the mouth and stomach
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • strip cropping — the growing of different crops on alternate strips of ground that usually follow the contour of the land, a recourse to minimize erosion.
  • subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
  • supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
  • surgical shock — a state of shock that can occur during or after surgery
  • sweeping score — a line at each end of the rink parallel to the foot score and extending through the center of the tee.
  • sync-generator — an electronic generator that supplies synchronizing pulses to television scanning and transmitting equipment.
  • teleprocessing — computerized processing and transmission of data over the telephone or other long-distance communications systems.
  • throwing stick — a short, straight or curved stick, flat or cylindrical in form, often having a hand grip, and used generally in preliterate societies as a hunting weapon to throw at birds and small game.
  • uncompromising — not admitting of compromise or adjustment of differences; making no concessions; inaccessible to flexible bargaining; unyielding: an uncompromising attitude.
  • ungraciousness — the state of being ungracious
  • virginia stock — a plant, Malcolmia maritima, of the mustard family, native to the Mediterranean region, having oblong leaves on a weak, often reclining stem and reddish or white flowers.
  • wearing course — the top layer of a road that carries the traffic; road surface
  • zebra crossing — a street crossing marked with white stripes.
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