11-letter words containing g, r, o, s
- serological — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- service dog — a dog trained to assist a person with a disability that is not related to vision or hearing.
- shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
- shadowgraph — a picture produced by throwing a shadow, as of the hands, on a lighted screen, wall, or the like.
- shergottite — a type of igneous rock or meteorite thought to originate on Mars
- sherrington — Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.
- shoe-string — a shoelace.
- short sight — myopia
- short-range — having a limited extent, as in distance or time: a short-range shot; a short-range plan.
- 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.
- shortweight — to give less than the weight charged for: The firm is accused of shortweighting grain.
- showrooming — the practice of looking at an item of merchandise in a shop, often using a smartphone app to compare its price elsewhere, before buying it from an online distributor
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
- sightworthy — worth seeing
- sign on for — If you sign on for something, you officially agree to work for an organization or do a course of study by signing a contract or form.
- signatories — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
- silver goal — (in certain competitions) a goal scored in a full half of extra time that is played if a match is drawn. This goal counts as the winner if it is the only goal scored in the full half or full period of extra time
- singaporean — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- single room — hotel room for one person
- sit through — endure the whole of
- ski touring — cross-country skiing.
- sleep rough — to spend the night in the open; be without a home or without shelter
- slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
- slough over — to gloss over; minimize
- smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
- smorgasbord — a buffet meal of various hot and cold hors d'oeuvres, salads, casserole dishes, meats, cheeses, etc.
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- sniffer dog — a dog trained to find illegal drugs or explosives by smell.
- snobography — an account or description of snobs
- snorkelling — the activity of swimming with a snorkel
- snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
- snow grains — precipitation consisting of white, opaque ice particles usually less than one millimeter in diameter.
- snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow
- snowy egret — a white egret, Egretta thula, of the warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere: formerly hunted in great numbers for its plumes, the species is now protected and has recovered.
- 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
- soft ground — an etching ground usually mixed with tallow. Compare hard ground.
- soft target — sth easy to hit
- software ag — (company) A German software engineering company that started with the ADABAS database. Natural is their 4GL development environment, EntireX is their DCOM for Unix and IBM. BOLERO, is an object-oriented development environment and application server specially made for Electronic Business applications. Mailing-list: <[email protected]>.
- soil boring — Soil boring is a technique used to survey soil by taking several shallow cores out of the sediment. It is used when a drilling jacket or jack-up rig is to be supported on the soil.
- song thrush — a common, European songbird, Turdus philomelos.
- songwriting — composing melodies and lyrics
- sonographer — a diagnostic technician who operates a sonograph
- soteriology — the doctrine of salvation through Jesus Christ.
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- sour grapes — bitterness about sth unattainable