12-letter words containing o, r, t, h, g, a
- right of way — a common law or statutory right granted to a vehicle, as an airplane or boat, to proceed ahead of another.
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
- sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
- shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
- short-acting — (of a drug) quickly effective, but requiring regularly repeated doses for long-term treatment, being rapidly absorbed, distributed in the body, and excreted
- short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
- smart growth — People such as architects and environmentalists use smart growth to refer to the construction of new buildings and roads within a town or city so that they are close to people's workplaces and mass transit systems and so that open spaces are not built on.
- sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
- spatiography — the study of the characteristics of space beyond the atmosphere, including the mapping of the movements of celestial bodies and the recording of electrical, magnetic, and gravitational effects, especially those likely to affect missiles and spacecraft.
- spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- st. gotthard — a mountain range in S Switzerland; a part of the Alps; highest peak, 10,490 feet (3195 meters).
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
- stenographer — a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stereography — the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane.
- straight off — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- straight out — thoroughgoing: a straight-out Democrat.
- straight-out — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- talk through — guide through: a procedure, etc.
- technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
- telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
- telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
- theatre-goer — a person who goes to the theater, especially often or habitually.
- theatregoing — the act of regularly attending the theatre
- theologaster — a person who pretends to be a theologian; a shallow or quack theologian
- thermography — a technique for imitating an embossed appearance, as on business cards, stationery, or the like, by dusting printed areas with a powder that adheres only to the wet ink, and fusing the ink and powder to the paper by heat.
- thoroughfare — a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
- thought-read — to read someone's mind or psychically know what someone's thoughts are
- through bass — figured bass.
- tollgatherer — a person who collects tolls, taxes, or other imposts.
- trapshooting — the sport of shooting at clay pigeons hurled into the air from a trap.
- trichogramma — any minute wasp of the genus Trichogramma, comprising a beneficial group of chalcidflies that parasitize the eggs of a variety of insect pests.
- turbo-charge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
- turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
- turbocharger — a supercharger that is driven by a turbine turned by exhaust gases from the engine.
- typographist — a person skilled in the art of typography
- walk through — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- walk-through — Theater, Television. a rehearsal in which physical action is combined with reading the lines of a play. a perfunctory performance of a script.
- walkthroughs — Plural form of walkthrough.
- warning shot — gunshot fired into the air
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- woolgatherer — One who engages in woolgathering.