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12-letter words containing g, a, l, e, s

  • safety glass — a pane made by joining two plates or panes of glass with a layer of usually transparent plastic or artificial resin between them that retains the fragments if the glass is broken.
  • sailing date — the date that a ship or boat departs on a sailing voyage
  • salary range — pay scale
  • sales ledger — record of business accounts
  • sales target — a fixed amount of sales that a person or organization wants to achieve
  • salve regina — a prayer in the form of a hymn to the Virgin Mary.
  • sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
  • sankt gallen — German name of St. Gallen.
  • sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
  • saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
  • sausage curl — a lock of hair formed into a curl resembling a sausage in shape.
  • sausage roll — A sausage roll is a small amount of sausage meat which is covered with pastry and cooked.
  • scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
  • scarlet sage — a tender shrub, Salvia splendens, of Brazil, having ovate leaves and bell-shaped scarlet flowers.
  • scatteringly — in a scattering manner
  • scots gaelic — Scottish Gaelic
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • seating plan — layout of seats at a venue or on transport
  • secant angle — an angle formed by two secants meeting in a point
  • sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
  • see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
  • seeing glass — a looking glass; mirror.
  • segmentalize — to make segmentalized.
  • selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • self-antigen — autoantigen.
  • self-basting — (of a turkey) prepared with oil or butter to remain moist when cooked in an oven.
  • self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
  • self-dealing — financial transaction conducted on a personal, nonbusinesslike basis, as lending or borrowing of corporate money by a director.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-healing — curing or curative; prescribed or helping to heal.
  • self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
  • self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
  • self-playing — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • self-raising — a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
  • self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
  • self-sealing — capable of sealing itself automatically or without the application of adhesive, glue, or moisture: a self-sealing automobile tire; self-sealing envelopes.
  • self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
  • self-tanning — cosmetic substance applied to the skin to simulate a suntan
  • self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet
  • selling race — a claiming race at the end of which the winning horse is offered for sale.
  • selling rate — the rate at which a bank is willing to sell foreign currency
  • semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
  • semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
  • semiological — the study of signs and symbols; semiotics.
  • servant girl — a girl or woman employed as a servant who performs household duties
  • sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
  • shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
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