10-letter words containing g, o, t, s
- polygenist — a person who advocates polygenism
- polygnotus — fl. c450 b.c., Greek painter.
- polygynist — a person who practices or favors polygyny.
- portuguese — of, relating to, or characteristic of Portugal, its inhabitants, or their language.
- postflight — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a flight
- postgresql — (database) /'post-gres-kyu-el/ An enhancement of the POSTGRES database system. PostgreSQL is an advanced relational database management system with some object oriented approaches. PostgreSQL is developed and distributed as free software, and while retaining its freedom it remains technically and featurewise a worthy competitor to even the most advanced commercial alternatives. It was also one of the first databases to offer MVCC as opposed to row-level locking or table locking, thereby greatly improving multi-user performance. PostgreSQL implements an extended subset of ANSI SQL and runs on many platforms. It also has interfaces to many different programming languages and database protocols, like ODBC and JDBC.
- postmating — of or designating the period after mating
- postponing — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
- prestorage — occurring before storage
- proglottis — one of the segments or joints of a tapeworm, containing complete reproductive systems, usually both male and female.
- prognostic — of or relating to prognosis.
- propagates — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- prosecting — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- protagoras — c480–c421 b.c, Greek Sophist philosopher.
- pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- pythagoras — c582–c500 b.c, Greek philosopher, mathematician, and religious reformer.
- resonating — to resound.
- retrogress — to go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition: to retrogress to infantilism.
- ring shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- ring stone — a voussoir appearing on a face of an arch.
- ring-shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- roistering — to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
- roystering — roister.
- sagination — the act of fattening livestock
- satanology — the aspect of knowledge that relates to Satan or evil
- scatophagy — the act of eating dung or excrement
- scotch egg — British Cookery. a hard-boiled egg encased in sausage meat, breaded, and deep-fried.
- sectioning — a part that is cut off or separated.
- segregator — an instrument for collecting the urine excreted by one kidney only.
- seltzogene — a device from the late Victorian times for making carbonated water
- serologist — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
- setigerous — having setae or bristles.
- sexologist — the study of sexual behavior.
- shoestring — a shoelace.
- shop right — the right of an employer to use an employee's invention without compensating the employee for the use, in cases where the invention was made at the place of and during the hours of employment.
- short game — the aspect of golf considered in relation to the ability of a player to hit medium or short shots, as chip shots, pitch shots, and putts, with accuracy. Compare long game (def 1).
- shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
- shortgrass — any of several range grasses of short stature, as buffalo grass, prevalent in semiarid regions of the Great Plains.
- shot angle — the angle from which a shot is taken
- shot glass — a small, heavy glass for serving a shot of whiskey or liquor.
- shotgunner — a person who is skilled with a shotgun
- shotmaking — the playing of good shots (by a sports player)
- shoutingly — by way of shouting
- sighthound — gazehound.
- sign-posts — a post bearing a sign that gives information or guidance.
- signposted — A place or route that is signposted has signposts beside the road to show the way.
- single out — only one in number; one only; unique; sole: a single example.
- sinologist — a person who specializes in Sinology.
- slingstone — a stone fired from a sling
- slung shot — a weight, as a stone or a piece of metal, fastened to a short strap, chain, or the like, and used as a weapon.