12-letter words containing g, s, p, o, t
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- prestigiator — someone who practises sorcery or prestidigitation
- proctologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the rectum and anus.
- prodigiosity — the state or quality of being immense, extraordinary or astonishing
- progenitress — a female progenitor (parent or ancestor)
- progesterone — Biochemistry. a hormone, C 2 1 H 3 0 O 2 , that prepares the uterus for the fertilized ovum and maintains pregnancy.
- propagandist — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
- prostituting — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
- protistology — the biology of the Protista.
- psephologist — A psephologist studies how people vote in elections.
- psychologist — a specialist in psychology.
- puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
- push through — force to accept
- pussyfooting — behaving in an excessively cautious way
- pyrognostics — the characteristics of a mineral, such as fusibility and flame coloration, that are revealed by the application of heat
- report stage — the stage preceding the third reading in the passage of a bill through Parliament, at which the bill, as amended in committee, is reported back to the chamber considering it
- rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- scapegoating — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- scapegoatism — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- scatophagous — feeding on dung or excrement
- 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.
- shipping ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- showstopping — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
- sign-posting — a post bearing a sign that gives information or guidance.
- slip through — be undetected
- slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
- snapshotting — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- 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.
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- speleologist — the exploration and study of caves.
- sphygmometer — a device which measures the rate of the pulse
- sponge cloth — any cloth loosely woven of coarse yarn to produce a spongy look or texture, especially one constructed in honeycomb weave.
- spongioblast — one of the primordial cells in the embryonic brain and spinal cord capable of developing into neuroglia.
- spongologist — a person who studies sponges
- sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
- sporting dog — one of any of several breeds of usually large dogs especially suited by size and training for hunting by pointing, flushing, and retrieving game and including the pointers, setters, retrievers, and spaniels.
- sporting gun — a gun intended for hunting
- spot welding — fusing metal
- spotlighting — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- stage pocket — one of several metal boxes placed backstage in the floor (floor pocket) or wall of a theater and containing jacks for electric cables used in lighting units.
- staging post — an area, as a port of embarkation, where troops are assembled and readied for transit to a new field of operations.
- 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.
- steatopygous — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
- stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule