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16-letter words containing g, a, t, e, p

  • santa fe springs — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles: oil wells.
  • scarlet eggplant — a hairy, prickly plant, Solanum integrifolium, of the nightshade family, native to Africa, grown for its furrowed, nearly round, scarlet or yellow ornamental fruit.
  • sculpture garden — a garden that showcases sculptures in landscaped surroundings
  • seating capacity — the number of people a place can seat
  • self-deprecating — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • self-replicating — reproducing itself by its own power or inherent nature: self-replicating organisms.
  • shag pile carpet — a large piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor
  • shifting spanner — an adjustable spanner
  • singapore strait — a strait between Singapore Island and the Riau Archipelago at the S end of the Malay Peninsula: shipping channel between the South China Sea and the Malacca Strait. 65 miles (105 km) long and 10 miles (16 km) wide.
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • sleeping partner — silent partner.
  • software package — bundle of files to execute computer program
  • spaghetti squash — a variety of a widely cultivated squash, Cucurbita pepo, having edible flesh in the form of spaghettilike strands.
  • sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
  • sparring partner — a boxer who spars with and otherwise serves to train a boxer who is preparing for a bout.
  • speak in tongues — to engage in glossolalia
  • speaking trumpet — a trumpet-shaped instrument used to carry the voice a great distance or held to the ear by a deaf person to aid his hearing
  • specific gravity — the ratio of the density of any substance to the density of some other substance taken as standard, water being the standard for liquids and solids, and hydrogen or air being the standard for gases.
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
  • speech pathology — the scientific study and treatment of defects, disorders, and malfunctions of speech and voice, as stuttering, lisping, or lalling, and of language disturbances, as aphasia or delayed language acquisition.
  • spelling mistake — error in writing a word
  • sphygmomanometer — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • sphygmomanometry — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • spreading center — a linear zone in the sea floor along which magma rises and from which adjacent crustal plates are moving apart.
  • spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
  • stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
  • stamp collecting — Stamp collecting is the hobby of building up a collection of stamps.
  • standing cypress — a plant, Ipomopsis rubra, of the southern U.S., having feathery leaves and clusters of red and yellow flowers.
  • sticking plaster — an adhesive cloth or other material for covering and closing superficial wounds, holding bandages in place, etc.
  • stinging capsule — a nematocyst.
  • storage capacity — amount of room or space
  • strange particle — any elementary particle with a strangeness quantum number other than zero.
  • superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
  • surface-printing — planography.
  • suspending agent — A suspending agent is a liquid in which a solid substance can be held in suspension.
  • sustaining pedal — a pedal on a piano that when depressed with the foot raises the dampers and permits the strings to vibrate and sustain the tone.
  • take a page from — to follow the example of; imitate
  • tangential point — a point at which a geometric line, curve, plane, or curved surface touches another curve or surface but does not intersect it
  • the great escape — a film (1963) directed by John Sturges, written by James Clavell and W.R. Burnett, based on a book by Paul Brickhill, and starring Steve McQueen. It follows an attempt made by Allied prisoners of war to escape a German prisoner of war camp during World War II
  • the great powers — the states or nations of the world with the most economic, political and military strength
  • the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • thinking pattern — manner of thinking
  • tiger kidnapping — a kidnapping in which one or more hostages are taken to coerce another person, usually a relation of the person or people held, to take part in a crime
  • tightrope walker — performer who walks on high wire
  • to change places — If you change places with another person, you start being in their situation or role, and they start being in yours.
  • to get bad press — If someone or something gets bad press, they are criticized, especially in the newspapers, on television, or on radio. If they get good press, they are praised.
  • to pass judgment — If you pass judgment on someone or something, you give your opinion about it, especially if you are making a criticism.
  • top-of-the-range — de luxe, expensive
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