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

  • sandpapering — the act or process of polishing or grinding a surface with or as if with sandpaper
  • scapegoating — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
  • scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • seating plan — layout of seats at a venue or on transport
  • selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • self-playing — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet
  • send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
  • seringapatam — a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.
  • sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
  • 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.
  • speech organ — any part of the body, as the tongue, velum, diaphragm, or lungs, that participates, actively or passively, voluntarily or involuntarily, in the production of the sounds of speech.
  • 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
  • spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
  • sphenography — the art of writing in cuneiform characters.
  • splenomegaly — enlargement of the spleen.
  • sponged ware — spongeware.
  • sprechgesang — a vocal style intermediate between speech and singing but without exact pitch intonation.
  • spring break — a vacation from school or college during the spring term, lasting about a week.
  • spring water — water from natural underground source
  • spring-clean — to subject (a place) to a spring-cleaning.
  • spur gearing — a system of spur gears.
  • stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
  • steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
  • stenographer — a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • 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.
  • top sergeant — a first sergeant.
  • undespairing — not despairing; not giving in to despair
  • unpleasingly — in an unpleasing manner
  • valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
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