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16-letter words containing n, o, g, e, s

  • 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.
  • restoring spring — a spring so located that it returns a displaced part to its normal position.
  • richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
  • 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
  • robin's-egg blue — a pale green to a light greenish-blue color.
  • 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.
  • scheme of things — Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.
  • 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.
  • second messenger — any of various intracellular chemical substances, as cyclic AMP, that transmit and amplify the messages delivered by a first messenger to specific receptors on the cell surface.
  • 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.
  • selenomorphology — the study of the lunar surface and landscape
  • 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-pronouncing — having the pronunciation indicated, especially by diacritical marks added on original spellings rather than by phonetic symbols: a self-pronouncing dictionary.
  • self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • self-questioning — review or scrutiny of one's own motives or behavior.
  • self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • self-sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
  • 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 complex — a shopping centre
  • shopping trolley — A shopping trolley is a large metal basket on wheels which is provided by shops such as supermarkets for customers to use while they are in the shop.
  • shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
  • short sweetening — sugar.
  • shortsightedness — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
  • shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
  • shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
  • 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.
  • single precision — using one word rather than two or more to represent a number.
  • sling one's hook — to leave
  • slubberdegullion — a slovenly or worthless person
  • 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.
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
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