16-letter words containing n, o, a, g, e
- regional network — mid-level network
- register tonnage — the volume of a vessel, especially the net tonnage as measured officially and registered for purposes of taxation.
- registration fee — a fee paid to register, enrol or sign up for (a course, etc)
- regular gasoline — unleaded gasoline or petrol, as for fuelling a vehicle, etc
- releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
- reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
- right honourable — (in Britain and certain Commonwealth countries) a title of respect for a Privy Councillor or an appeal-court judge
- rigid designator — an expression that identifies the same individual in every possible world: for example, "Shakespeare" is a rigid designator since it is possible that Shakespeare might not have been a playwright but not that he might not have been Shakespeare
- roentgenotherapy — treatment of disease by means of x-rays.
- rough and tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
- rough-and-tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
- sangre de cristo — a mountain range in S Colorado and N New Mexico: a part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Blanca Peak, 14,390 feet (4385 meters).
- santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
- savage's station — a locality in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle in 1862.
- scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
- seat of learning — People sometimes refer to a university or a similar institution as a seat of learning.
- sebaceous glands — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
- secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
- self-degradation — the act of degrading.
- self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- self-designation — a name taken for oneself or one's own people
- self-indignation — strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger.
- self-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
- self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
- sex-and-shopping — (of a novel) belonging to a genre of novel in which the central character, a woman, has a number of sexual encounters, and the author mentions the name of many up-market products
- shoestring catch — a catch of a ball on the fly, made close to the ground while running.
- shooting gallery — a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
- shopping channel — television station used to sell goods
- shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
- shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- signal generator — radio
- simon boccanegra — an opera (1857) by Giuseppe Verdi.
- singapore strait — a strait between Singapore Island and the Riau Archipelago at the S end of the Malay Peninsula: shipping channel between the South China Sea and the Malacca Strait. 65 miles (105 km) long and 10 miles (16 km) wide.
- single occupancy — a type of travel accommodation, as at a hotel, for one person in a room.
- smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.
- social gathering — party, get-together
- solemn high mass — a Mass sung with the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon.
- sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
- sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
- speak in tongues — to engage in glossolalia
- sphygmomanometer — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
- sphygmomanometry — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
- spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
- spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
- staffing officer — someone who recruits, hires, and ensures the interests of staff and employees in an organization
- stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
- stagedoor johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
- stamp collecting — Stamp collecting is the hobby of building up a collection of stamps.