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12-letter words containing o, l, e, a, g

  • regulation u — (in the U.S.) a federal law governing the amount of credit that may be advanced by a bank for the purchase of listed securities.
  • relitigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
  • renegotiable — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
  • repromulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • reregulation — renewed regulation, the act or process of regulating again
  • retail group — a group of companies under single ownership, which sell goods to individual customers
  • retrolingual — situated behind or near the base of the tongue.
  • rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.
  • ring-a-levio — a children's game in which members of one group try to find and capture hiding members of another group: a captured player is kept in a circle drawn on the ground and is set free when tagged by a teammate
  • rio gallegos — a seaport in S Argentina, in S Patagonia.
  • ripe old age — advanced age
  • road haulage — transport of goods by road
  • rock glacier — a mass of rock resembling a valley glacier that moves or is moved down a slope by its own weight or by the action of frost and interstitial ice.
  • role playing — role-play used as a method of training or education
  • role-playing — a method of instruction or psychotherapy aimed at changing attitudes and behavior, in which participants act out designated roles relevant to real-life situations.
  • rolled glass — a sheet of glass made by the extrusion of molten glass between two rollers.
  • sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
  • sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
  • sausage roll — A sausage roll is a small amount of sausage meat which is covered with pastry and cooked.
  • scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
  • scots gaelic — Scottish Gaelic
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
  • self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
  • semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
  • semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
  • semiological — the study of signs and symbols; semiotics.
  • shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
  • shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • single modal — modal (def 3).
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • sloganeering — Sloganeering is the use of slogans by people such as politicians or advertising agencies.
  • smoke signal — If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out.
  • snaggletooth — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • solar energy — energy derived from the sun in the form of solar radiation.
  • sole legatee — the only person who receives a legacy
  • solenogaster — any of a group of wormlike mollusks, class Solenogastres (formerly Aplacophora), inhabiting deep ocean layers and having fine limy spicules on the covering mantle.
  • sov language — a type of language that has basic subject-object-verb order, as Turkish, Japanese, or Tamil.
  • splenomegaly — enlargement of the spleen.
  • stigmasterol — a crystalline, water-insoluble steroid, C 2 9 H 4 8 O, present in soybeans or calabar beans, used chiefly as a raw material in the manufacture of progesterone.
  • stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
  • storage cell — a cell whose energy can be renewed by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to that of the flow of current generated by the cell.
  • storage wall — a set of shelves, cabinets, or the like that covers or forms a wall.
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • svo language — a type of language that has basic subject-verb-object word order, as English, Chinese, or Spanish.
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