12-letter words containing g, o, s, m
- 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.
- shaving foam — lather used for shaving
- shortcomings — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- show jumping — sport: horseriding event
- sigma baryon — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- simon legree — Simon, Simon Legree.
- simple group — a group that has no normal subgroup except the group itself and the identity.
- single modal — modal (def 3).
- sitting room — a small living room, often one that forms part of a suite in a hotel, private house, etc.
- smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- smart growth — People such as architects and environmentalists use smart growth to refer to the construction of new buildings and roads within a town or city so that they are close to people's workplaces and mass transit systems and so that open spaces are not built on.
- smoke signal — If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out.
- smoking area — a designated area in which smoking is permitted
- 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.
- smoking room — a room set apart for smoking, as in a hotel or clubhouse.
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
- somaticizing — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
- sorghum beer — beer made from sorghum or millet
- spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
- spermogonium — one of the cup-shaped or flask-shaped receptacles in which the spermatia of certain fungi and red algae are produced.
- sphygmograph — an instrument for recording the rapidity, strength, and uniformity of the arterial pulse.
- sphygmometer — a device which measures the rate of the pulse
- sphygmophone — a device by which a pulse may be heard
- sphygmoscope — a device for studying or examining the pulse
- splenomegaly — enlargement of the spleen.
- sporangiolum — a small sporangium
- stigmasterol — a crystalline, water-insoluble steroid, C 2 9 H 4 8 O, present in soybeans or calabar beans, used chiefly as a raw material in the manufacture of progesterone.
- storm signal — a visual signal, as a flag, giving advance notice of a heavy storm, used especially along coastal areas.
- sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- submicrogram — containing or relating to a mass of less than one microgram
- superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
- svga monitor — (hardware, graphics) A monitor capable of displaying the output of an SVGA card.
- timbrologist — a stamp-collector
- transforming — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transmogrify — to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
- troglodytism — the condition of being a troglodyte
- unglamourous — full of glamour; charmingly or fascinatingly attractive, especially in a mysterious or magical way.
- unmoralising — not moralising
- veto-message — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- wagon master — wagon boss.
- whoremongers — Plural form of whoremonger.
- womb-leasing — bearing a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child; surrogacy
- wordsmithing — Present participle of wordsmith.
- zoomastigote — A zooflagellate: a heterotrophic flagellate of the phylum Zoomastigophora.