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12-letter words containing g, r, o, a, t

  • 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.
  • shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
  • short-acting — (of a drug) quickly effective, but requiring regularly repeated doses for long-term treatment, being rapidly absorbed, distributed in the body, and excreted
  • short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • significator — a planet deemed significant in astrology
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • 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.
  • 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 yard — sorting tracks.
  • sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • spatiography — the study of the characteristics of space beyond the atmosphere, including the mapping of the movements of celestial bodies and the recording of electrical, magnetic, and gravitational effects, especially those likely to affect missiles and spacecraft.
  • spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • sranan tongo — Sranan.
  • st. gotthard — a mountain range in S Switzerland; a part of the Alps; highest peak, 10,490 feet (3195 meters).
  • stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
  • stara zagora — a city in central Bulgaria.
  • status group — a social stratum sharing the same lifestyle or occupation and having the same level of prestige.
  • stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
  • steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
  • stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
  • stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
  • stenographer — a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stereography — the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane.
  • 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.
  • storage cell — a cell whose energy can be renewed by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to that of the flow of current generated by the cell.
  • 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 tube — an electron tube in which information is stored as charges for a predetermined time
  • storage unit — rented space to store items
  • storage wall — a set of shelves, cabinets, or the like that covers or forms a wall.
  • storm signal — a visual signal, as a flag, giving advance notice of a heavy storm, used especially along coastal areas.
  • straight off — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • straight out — thoroughgoing: a straight-out Democrat.
  • straight-out — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • string along — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
  • sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
  • sugar-coated — Sugar-coated food is covered with a sweet substance made of sugar.
  • sugarcoating — the act or process of covering something with sugar.
  • supererogate — to do more than duty requires.
  • supraglottal — situated above the glottis
  • svga monitor — (hardware, graphics)   A monitor capable of displaying the output of an SVGA card.
  • swagger coat — a woman's pyramid-shaped coat with a full flared back and usually raglan sleeves, first popularized in the 1930s.
  • sweet orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
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