10-letter words containing e, n, g, o, r, s
- overstrung — overly tense or sensitive; strained; on edge: Their nerves were badly overstrung.
- perigynous — situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.
- pop singer — sb who sings popular music
- processing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- professing — to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to: He professed extreme regret.
- prosecting — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- prospering — to be successful or fortunate, especially in financial respects; thrive; flourish.
- pyrogenous — pyrogenic (def 2).
- recognised — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recognizes — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- regression — the act of going back to a previous place or state; return or reversion.
- resonating — to resound.
- resounding — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- resourcing — the provision of resources
- ring stone — a voussoir appearing on a face of an arch.
- roistering — to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
- rosemaling — decorative work of Norwegian folk origin consisting of painted or carved floral designs, as on furniture or woodwork.
- roystering — roister.
- rubiginose — rust-coloured or rusty
- sandgroper — a nickname for a Western Australian
- sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
- schoenberg — Arnold (ˈarnɔlt). 1874–1951, Austrian composer and musical theorist, in the US after 1933. The harmonic idiom of such early works as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899) gave way to his development of atonality, as in the song cycle Pierrot Lunaire (1912), and later of the twelve-tone technique. He wrote many choral, orchestral, and chamber works and the unfinished opera Moses and Aaron
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- scroungers — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- seger cone — a pyrometric cone composed of clay and salt.
- seignorial — of or relating to a seignior.
- self-wrong — wrong done to oneself.
- shoestring — a shoelace.
- shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
- shotgunner — a person who is skilled with a shotgun
- signorelli — Luca [loo-kah] /ˈlu kɑ/ (Show IPA), c1445–1523, Italian painter.
- siren song — a dangerously attractive, esp. seductive, proposal or offer
- slobbering — to let saliva or liquid run from the mouth; slaver; drivel.
- smoke ring — a visible ring formed by the sudden release of smoke, usually created by blowing smoke from the mouth or by a cigarette, incense stick etc
- smoldering — to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
- smothering — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- snorkeling — Also called, British, snort. a device permitting a submarine to remain submerged for prolonged periods, consisting of tubes extended above the surface of the water to take in air for the diesel engine and for general ventilation and to discharge exhaust gases and foul air.
- solderings — any parts which have been soldered together
- soldiering — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- songstress — a female singer, especially one who specializes in popular songs.
- songwriter — a person who writes the words or music, or both, for popular songs.
- sphenogram — a cuneiform character.
- spongeware — earthenware decorated with color applied with a sponge.
- sporogenic — relating to the production or formation of spores, or producing spores
- starmonger — an astrologer or fortune-teller
- stenograph — any of various keyboard instruments, somewhat resembling a typewriter, used for writing in shorthand, as by means of phonetic or arbitrary symbols.
- stockinger — a person who knits on a stocking frame
- stringendo — to be performed with increasing speed
- strongness — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.