12-letter words containing g, r, e, n, s, t
- sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
- seringapatam — a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.
- seronegative — showing no significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, that would indicate previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
- serotonergic — containing or activated by serotonin.
- servant girl — a girl or woman employed as a servant who performs household duties
- set designer — theatre, cinema: creator of scenery
- setting rule — a metal strip used in the hand-setting of type in a composing stick to separate the line being set from the previous one
- sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
- short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- sight screen — a white screen set in line with the wicket as an aid to the batsman in seeing the ball when it is bowled.
- signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
- single entry — an item noted only once.
- single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
- single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
- single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- snollygoster — a clever, unscrupulous person.
- solenogaster — any of a group of wormlike mollusks, class Solenogastres (formerly Aplacophora), inhabiting deep ocean layers and having fine limy spicules on the covering mantle.
- sorting code — a sequence of numbers printed on a cheque or embossed on a bank or building-society card that identifies the branch holding the account
- south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
- speedwriting — a system of shorthand that is based on the sound of words and utilizes letters of the alphabet rather than symbols.
- spring vetch — any of several mostly climbing plants belonging to the genus Vicia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves ending in tendrils and bearing pealike flowers, especially V. sativa (spring vetch) cultivated for forage and soil improvement.
- spring water — water from natural underground source
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- staggeringly — tending to stagger or overwhelm: a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.
- staging area — an area, as a port of embarkation, where troops are assembled and readied for transit to a new field of operations.
- stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- steering arm — the part of a vehicle's chassis that directs the input from the steering box
- steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
- stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
- steinamanger — German name of Szombathely.
- stenographer — a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stereognosis — the ability to determine the shape and weight of an object by touching or lifting it.
- stereotyping — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- sterlingness — the state of being sterling or having the quality of sterling
- stone-ground — (of wheat or other grain) ground between millstones, especially those made of burstone, so as to retain the whole of the grain and preserve nutritional content.
- storage ring — a device for storing charged particles fed from an accelerator, consisting of a set of magnets placed in a ring and adjusted to keep the particles circulating until they are used.
- storage tank — A storage tank is a large vessel for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
- storage unit — rented space to store items
- storytelling — the telling or writing of stories.
- straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
- straightness — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- strain gauge — Geology. a type of extensometer designed for geophysical use.
- strange star — a hypothetical celestial object that is intermediate in density between a neutron star and a black hole, possibly the remnant of a massive neutron star with all particles reduced to strange quarks.
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.