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10-letter words containing g, r, o, s

  • 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.
  • rodfishing — angling or fishing using a fishing rod
  • roger, sir — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
  • roistering — to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
  • roma gypsy — a member of a people scattered throughout Europe and North America, who maintain a nomadic way of life in industrialized societies
  • rosemaling — decorative work of Norwegian folk origin consisting of painted or carved floral designs, as on furniture or woodwork.
  • rough fish — any fish that is not valued as a sport fish or considered a significant source of food by sport fishers.
  • rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
  • rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
  • roughhouse — rough, disorderly playing, especially indoors.
  • roy rogers — a nonalcoholic cocktail of ginger ale and grenadine, garnished with a maraschino cherry: a child's drink, served especially to a boy.
  • roystering — roister.
  • rubiginose — rust-coloured or rusty
  • rubiginous — rusty; rust-colored; brownish-red.
  • sag harbor — a resort town on E Long Island in SE New York.
  • sago grass — a tall tough grass, Paspalidum globoideum, grown as forage for cattle
  • sandgroper — a nickname for a Western Australian
  • sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
  • sang-froid — coolness of mind; calmness; composure: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.
  • saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
  • sarcophagi — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
  • schoenberg — Arnold (ˈarnɔlt). 1874–1951, Austrian composer and musical theorist, in the US after 1933. The harmonic idiom of such early works as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899) gave way to his development of atonality, as in the song cycle Pierrot Lunaire (1912), and later of the twelve-tone technique. He wrote many choral, orchestral, and chamber works and the unfinished opera Moses and Aaron
  • schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
  • schoolgirl — a girl attending school.
  • scrapegood — a stingy person; a miser
  • scroungers — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
  • seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
  • search dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers in finding people buried under rubble by detection by smell
  • seger cone — a pyrometric cone composed of clay and salt.
  • segregator — an instrument for collecting the urine excreted by one kidney only.
  • seignorial — of or relating to a seignior.
  • seismogram — a record made by a seismograph.
  • self-wrong — wrong done to oneself.
  • serologist — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
  • setigerous — having setae or bristles.
  • 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.
  • shotgunner — a person who is skilled with a shotgun
  • shower gel — liquid soap product
  • showground — outdoor events venue
  • siegeworks — constructions built by a besieging force
  • signorelli — Luca [loo-kah] /ˈlu kɑ/ (Show IPA), c1445–1523, Italian painter.
  • silkgrower — a person who breeds silkworms for their silk
  • siren song — a dangerously attractive, esp. seductive, proposal or offer
  • slobbering — to let saliva or liquid run from the mouth; slaver; drivel.
  • sludgeworm — a small freshwater worm, Tubifex tubifex, often inhabiting sewage sludge and the muddy bottoms of lakes, rivers, and pools.
  • smoke ring — a visible ring formed by the sudden release of smoke, usually created by blowing smoke from the mouth or by a cigarette, incense stick etc
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