12-letter words containing g, a, p, o, s
- scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
- scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
- seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
- selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- shadowgraphy — the production of a shadowgraph
- 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.
- shaving soap — a special soap for lathering the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving, capable of producing a thick lather due to its high fat content and low alkalinity.
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- shopping bag — a strong, usually paper or plastic, bag with handles, used to carry purchases or belongings.
- siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
- signal corps — a branch of the army responsible for military communications, meteorological studies, and related work.
- smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
- snapshotting — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
- sociographic — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- song sparrow — a small emberizine songbird, Melospiza melodia, common in North America.
- span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- sparrowgrass — asparagus.
- spatiography — the study of the characteristics of space beyond the atmosphere, including the mapping of the movements of celestial bodies and the recording of electrical, magnetic, and gravitational effects, especially those likely to affect missiles and spacecraft.
- spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- 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.
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
- sphenography — the art of writing in cuneiform characters.
- sphygmograph — an instrument for recording the rapidity, strength, and uniformity of the arterial pulse.
- splenomegaly — enlargement of the spleen.
- sponged ware — spongeware.
- spongillafly — spongefly.
- spongioblast — one of the primordial cells in the embryonic brain and spinal cord capable of developing into neuroglia.
- sporangiolum — a small sporangium
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- stage pocket — one of several metal boxes placed backstage in the floor (floor pocket) or wall of a theater and containing jacks for electric cables used in lighting units.
- staging post — an area, as a port of embarkation, where troops are assembled and readied for transit to a new field of operations.
- status group — a social stratum sharing the same lifestyle or occupation and having the same level of prestige.
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- steatopygous — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
- stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
- 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).
- stereography — the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane.
- stocking cap — a long, conical, knitted cap, usually with a tassel or pompon at the tip.
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- supererogate — to do more than duty requires.
- superorganic — of or relating to the structure of cultural elements within society conceived as independent of and superior to the individual members of society.
- supraglottal — situated above the glottis
- talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
- top sergeant — a first sergeant.