11-letter words containing g, r, o, s, c
- necrologies — Plural form of necrology.
- necrologist — a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
- nonorgasmic — not involving or resulting in orgasm, not able to orgasm
- nonsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- obstructing — Present participle of obstruct.
- offscouring — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
- oligarchies — Plural form of oligarchy.
- onagraceous — belonging to the Onagraceae, the evening primrose family of plants.
- orthogenics — the treatment of mentally and emotionally disturbed children
- oscillogram — the record produced by the action of an oscillograph or oscilloscope.
- ostracising — Present participle of ostracise.
- ostracizing — Simple past tense and past participle of ostracize.
- ostrich egg — the large egg produced by a fast-running flightless African bird, Struthio camelus, that is the largest living bird, with stout two-toed feet and dark feathers, except on the naked head, neck, and legs: order Struthioniformes
- outcrossing — Present participle of outcross.
- outsourcing — (of a company or organization) to purchase (goods) or subcontract (services) from an outside supplier or source.
- overcasting — Meteorology. the condition of the sky when more than 95 percent covered by clouds.
- overcharges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcharge.
- pre-scoring — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.
- precognosce — to conduct a preliminary examination of (a witness, a claim) prior to a trial
- proceedings — a particular action or course or manner of action.
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- prospecting — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
- psychograph — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- pyrognostic — relating to heated minerals
- ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
- reaganomics — the economic policies put forth by the administration of President Ronald Reagan, especially as emphasizing supply-side theory.
- reconsigned — to hand over or deliver formally or officially; commit (often followed by to).
- rough music — (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
- sarcophagal — related to or depicted on sarcophagi
- sarcophagus — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
- scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
- scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
- scaremonger — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
- scattergood — a spendthrift.
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
- scorchingly — in a scorching manner
- scuppernong — a silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape.
- serological — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
- service dog — a dog trained to assist a person with a disability that is not related to vision or hearing.
- shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
- smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
- sociography — the branch of sociology that uses statistical data to describe social phenomena.
- sockdolager — something unusually large, heavy, etc.
- sockdoliger — a conclusive argument; a hard blow
- sockdologer — a decisive blow or remark
- space group — a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.