16-letter words containing g, o, s, a
- recorded message — words spoken by someone and recorded electronically in order to be replayed again in future, esp automatically over the phone
- regional ileitis — a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that causes scarring and thickening of the intestinal walls and frequently leads to obstruction.
- register tonnage — the volume of a vessel, especially the net tonnage as measured officially and registered for purposes of taxation.
- registration fee — a fee paid to register, enrol or sign up for (a course, etc)
- regular gasoline — unleaded gasoline or petrol, as for fuelling a vehicle, etc
- releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
- religious leader — head of a church or order
- reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
- reverse mortgage — a type of home mortgage under which an elderly homeowner is allowed a long-term loan in the form of monthly payments against his or her paid-off equity as collateral, repayable when the home is eventually sold. Abbreviation: RAM.
- revised algol 60 — ALGOL 60 Revised
- rhinopharyngitis — inflammation of the mucous membranes of the nose and pharynx.
- rigid designator — an expression that identifies the same individual in every possible world: for example, "Shakespeare" is a rigid designator since it is possible that Shakespeare might not have been a playwright but not that he might not have been Shakespeare
- roskind grammars — (tool) Yacc-based parsers for C and C++ by Jim Roskind. It does not use the %prec and %assoc YACC features so conflicts are never hidden. The C grammar has only one shift-reduce conflict, the C++ grammar has a few more. With byacc it can produce graphical parse trees automatically. The C grammar conforms to ANSI C and the C++ grammar supports cfront 2.0 constructs.
- run rings around — a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
- saint-john-night — Midsummer Eve.
- saint-ulmo-light — St. Elmo's fire.
- sangre de cristo — a mountain range in S Colorado and N New Mexico: a part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Blanca Peak, 14,390 feet (4385 meters).
- santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
- saratoga springs — a city in E New York: health resort; horse races.
- savage's station — a locality in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle in 1862.
- savings and loan — type of savings bank
- sawn-off shotgun — A sawn-off shotgun is a shotgun on which the barrel has been cut short. Guns like this are often used by criminals because they can be easily hidden.
- saxo grammaticus — c1150–1206? Danish historian and poet.
- scarborough lily — a plant, Vallota speciosa, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of funnel-shaped, scarlet flowers.
- school-age child — a child who is old enough to go to school
- scratch together — to assemble with difficulty
- scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
- seat of learning — People sometimes refer to a university or a similar institution as a seat of learning.
- sebaceous glands — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
- secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
- self-degradation — the act of degrading.
- self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- self-designation — a name taken for oneself or one's own people
- self-indignation — strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger.
- self-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
- self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
- sex-and-shopping — (of a novel) belonging to a genre of novel in which the central character, a woman, has a number of sexual encounters, and the author mentions the name of many up-market products
- shaggy dog story — a funny story, traditionally about a talking dog, that, after an often long and involved narration of unimportant incidents, has an absurd or irrelevant punch line.
- shaggy-dog story — a funny story, traditionally about a talking dog, that, after an often long and involved narration of unimportant incidents, has an absurd or irrelevant punch line.
- sharpe's grysbok — either of two small, usually solitary antelopes of southern Africa, Raphicerus melanotis, or R. sharpei (Sharpe's grysbok) having a light to dark reddish-brown coat speckled with white.
- shipping company — business that sends goods overseas
- shoestring catch — a catch of a ball on the fly, made close to the ground while running.
- shooting gallery — a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
- shopping channel — television station used to sell goods
- shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
- shorthand typing — shorthand and typing
- shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- signal generator — radio