13-letter words containing g, e, o, p
- self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- selling point — a unique or advantageous feature that appeals to the prospective buyer of a service, product, etc.: A generous discount is the chief selling point of the book club.
- serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
- serving spoon — utensil used to serve food
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- shell program — A shell program is a basic computer program that provides a framework within which the user can develop the program to suit their own needs.
- sigmoidoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope for visual examination of the rectum and sigmoid colon.
- sign of peace — the liturgical practice of giving a sign of peace, union, or friendship, as a handshake or embrace, at some point in a Christian service, esp. in a Mass or Communion service
- skipping rope — A skipping rope or skip rope is a piece of rope, usually with handles at each end. You exercise or play with it by turning it round and round and jumping over it.
- skipping-rope — Also, jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.
- sleep through — If you sleep through something, it does not wake you up.
- slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
- social gospel — a movement in America, chiefly in the early part of the 20th century, stressing the social teachings of Jesus and their applicability to public life.
- space biology — exobiology.
- spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- speedcoding 3 — (language) [Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959].
- spelling book — an elementary textbook or manual to teach spelling
- spelling-book — a person who spells words.
- spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
- sphingomyelin — any of the class of phospholipids occurring chiefly in the brain and spinal cord, composed of phosphoric acid, choline, sphingosine, and a fatty acid.
- sponge finger — sweet finger-shaped biscuit
- sponge rubber — a light, spongy rubber, usually prepared by bubbling carbon dioxide through or whipping air into latex, used for padding, insulation, gaskets, etc.; foam rubber.
- spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
- spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
- springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- spruce grouse — a grouse, Canachites canadensis, of coniferous forests of northern North America, that feeds on evergreen buds and needles.
- staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
- steganography — the practice of concealing messages in such a way that only the sender and the recipient know that there is a message
- steganopodous — belonging to the Stegandopodes or having all four toes webbed together
- steppingstone — a stone, or one of a line of stones, in shallow water, a marshy place, or the like, that is stepped on in crossing.
- stereographer — a person who takes stereoscopic photographs.
- stoppage time — In soccer and some other sports, stoppage time is the period of time that is added to the end of a game because play was stopped during the game as a result of, for example, injuries to players.
- superorganism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- superregional — involving many regions
- supersurgeons — highly skilled surgeon
- tangoreceptor — a receptor stimulated by touch.
- taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
- telephone tag — repeated unsuccessful attempts by two persons to connect with one another by telephone.
- temple orange — a hybrid fruit, Citrus nobilis, that is a cross between the sweet orange and the tangerine.
- temporizingly — in a yielding manner
- the paleogene — the Paleogene subdivision of the Tertiary Period or its rocks
- the spotlight — the focus of attention
- thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
- to go apeshit — to become crazy, enraged, or out of control
- to keep going — If you keep going, you continue moving along or doing something that you have started, even if you are tired and would prefer to stop.
- tone painting — musical description, by harmonic, melodic, or rhythmic means, of the words of a text or the story elements in program music.
- tribune group — (in Britain) a group made up of left-wing Labour Members of Parliament: founded 1966
- triple-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
- tropocollagen — the molecular unit which forms collagen, consisting of three polypeptide chains