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12-letter words containing e, i, g, n, s, p

  • sidestepping — the act of ascending or descending by facing sideways and lifting each ski alternately
  • 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-phase — noting or pertaining to a circuit having an alternating current with one phase or with phases differing by 180°.
  • single-space — to type (copy) on each line space.
  • skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
  • sleeping bag — a warmly lined or padded body-length bag, usually waterproof and with a closure, in which one or two persons can sleep, especially outdoors, as when camping.
  • sleeping car — a railroad car fitted with berths, compartments, bedrooms, or drawing rooms for passengers to sleep in.
  • sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
  • space-saving — that saves space.
  • spade guinea — a guinea decorated with a spade-shaped shield, coined during the reign of George III
  • spearfishing — any of several fishes of the genus Tetrapturus, resembling the sailfish but having the first dorsal fin much less developed: inhabiting all seas, but rare.
  • spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
  • specialising — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
  • speechifying — Speechifying is the making of speeches, especially because you want to appear important.
  • speed dating — an organized social event in which participants have one-on-one conversations typically limited to less than ten minutes, for the purpose of meeting people they would like to date.
  • speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
  • speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
  • speedskating — a form of ice skating in which contestants race against each other or the clock over various distances
  • speedwriting — a system of shorthand that is based on the sound of words and utilizes letters of the alphabet rather than symbols.
  • spellbinding — to hold or bind by or as if by a spell; enchant; entrance; fascinate.
  • spelling bee — a spelling competition won by the individual or team spelling the greatest number of words correctly; spelldown.
  • spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
  • spermogonium — one of the cup-shaped or flask-shaped receptacles in which the spermatia of certain fungi and red algae are produced.
  • spiegeleisen — a lustrous, crystalline pig iron containing a large amount of manganese, sometimes 15 percent or more, used in making steel.
  • sporogenesis — the production of spores; sporogony.
  • spot welding — fusing metal
  • spring break — a vacation from school or college during the spring term, lasting about a week.
  • spring fever — a listless, lazy, or restless feeling commonly associated with the beginning of spring.
  • spring vetch — any of several mostly climbing plants belonging to the genus Vicia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves ending in tendrils and bearing pealike flowers, especially V. sativa (spring vetch) cultivated for forage and soil improvement.
  • spring water — water from natural underground source
  • spring-clean — to subject (a place) to a spring-cleaning.
  • springkeeper — a salamander
  • spur gearing — a system of spur gears.
  • sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
  • stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stereotyping — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • stool pigeon — a pigeon used as a decoy.
  • stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
  • suet pudding — a pudding made of chopped beef suet and flour, boiled or steamed in a cloth, often with other ingredients, as raisins, spices, etc.
  • supercooling — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
  • superorganic — of or relating to the structure of cultural elements within society conceived as independent of and superior to the individual members of society.
  • swine plague — hemorrhagic septicemia of hogs, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella suiseptica, characterized by an accompanying infection of pneumonia.
  • teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
  • the hoppings — an annual fair in Newcastle
  • top dressing — tennis court
  • typing speed — the number of words someone can accurately type in one minute
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