10-letter words containing n, o, s, g
- regression — the act of going back to a previous place or state; return or reversion.
- resonating — to resound.
- resounding — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- resourcing — the provision of resources
- 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.
- ring stone — a voussoir appearing on a face of an arch.
- 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
- roistering — to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
- rosemaling — decorative work of Norwegian folk origin consisting of painted or carved floral designs, as on furniture or woodwork.
- rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
- rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
- roystering — roister.
- rubiginose — rust-coloured or rusty
- rubiginous — rusty; rust-colored; brownish-red.
- sagination — the act of fattening livestock
- san angelo — a city in W Texas.
- 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.
- sangiovese — a black grape grown in the Tuscany region of Italy, used for making Chianti and other wines
- saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
- satanology — the aspect of knowledge that relates to Satan or evil
- scalloping — any of the bivalve mollusks of the genus Argopecten (Pecten) and related genera that swim by rapidly clapping the fluted shell valves together.
- schizogony — (in the asexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) the multiple fission of a trophozoite or schizont into merozoites.
- 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.
- schooligan — a person of school age who engages in acts of public disorder
- scoffingly — to speak derisively; mock; jeer (often followed by at): If you can't do any better, don't scoff. Their efforts toward a peaceful settlement are not to be scoffed at.
- scowlingly — in a scowling manner
- scroungers — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- sea pigeon — the common black guillemot, Cepphus grylle.
- sectioning — a part that is cut off or separated.
- seger cone — a pyrometric cone composed of clay and salt.
- seignorial — of or relating to a seignior.
- selenology — the branch of astronomy that deals with the nature and origin of the physical features of the moon.
- self-wrong — wrong done to oneself.
- seltzogene — a device from the late Victorian times for making carbonated water
- shockingly — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
- shoestring — a shoelace.
- shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
- shot angle — the angle from which a shot is taken
- shotgunner — a person who is skilled with a shotgun
- shotmaking — the playing of good shots (by a sports player)
- shoutingly — by way of shouting
- showcasing — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
- showground — outdoor events venue
- shylocking — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- sighthound — gazehound.
- sign-posts — a post bearing a sign that gives information or guidance.