11-letter words containing o, g, e, s
- snorkelling — the activity of swimming with a snorkel
- snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
- snowshoeing — the activity of taking part in cross-country walks 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.
- sociologese — the recondite writing characteristic of sociology and sociologists
- sockdolager — something unusually large, heavy, etc.
- sockdoliger — a conclusive argument; a hard blow
- sockdologer — a decisive blow or remark
- 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]>.
- solenoglyph — any poisonous snake of the viper family with hollow, paired, erectile fangs
- solid angle — an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting in a common point or formed at the vertex of a cone.
- somatogenic — developing from somatic cells.
- sonographer — a diagnostic technician who operates a sonograph
- sopping wet — soaked, dripping
- soteriology — the doctrine of salvation through Jesus Christ.
- sound stage — a large, soundproof studio used for filming motion pictures.
- sour grapes — bitterness about sth unattainable
- sour orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- south ogden — a town in N Utah.
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- sovereignly — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
- sovietology — Kremlinology.
- space group — a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.
- specialogue — a mail-order catalogue aimed at a specific group of customers
- spectrogram — a representation or photograph of a spectrum.
- spectrology — the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions.
- speedcoding — (language) A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics on IBM 701 and IBM 650 written by John Backus in 1953.
- sphingosine — a basic unsaturated amino alcohol, C 1 8 H 3 3 (OH) 2 NH 2 , produced by the hydrolysis of sphingomyelin or gangliosides.
- splodginess — the state of being splodgy
- sponge bath — a bath in which the bather is cleaned by a wet sponge or washcloth dipped in water, without getting into a tub of water.
- sponge cake — a light, sweet cake made with a comparatively large proportion of eggs but no shortening.
- sponge down — to wipe clean with a damp sponge or cloth
- sponge iron — finely divided, porous iron, reduced from an oxide at a temperature below the melting point.
- sponge tree — huisache.
- sporogenous — of or relating to spores or spore production.
- sports page — newspaper page carrying sports results
- spot height — the elevation of a certain point.
- spotted gum — an Australian eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus maculata
- springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
- squarsonage — the residence of a squarson
- steam organ — calliope (def 1).
- steatopygia — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- steatopygic — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- steganogram — a coded message
- stegosaurus — any of a suborder (Stegosauria) of large ornithischian dinosaurs of the Upper Jurassic having a small head and heavy bony plates with sharp spikes down the backbone
- stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
- stereograph — a single or double picture for a stereoscope.