12-letter words containing o, s, t, e, g
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- register ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- registration — the act of registering.
- report stage — the stage preceding the third reading in the passage of a bill through Parliament, at which the bill, as amended in committee, is reported back to the chamber considering it
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- risorgimento — the period of or the movement for the liberation and unification of Italy 1750–1870.
- roasting ear — an ear of sweet corn suitable for roasting while still in the husk.
- sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
- scapegoating — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- scapegoatism — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- 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.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- secretagogue — a substance or situation that promotes secretion.
- section gang — a group of workers who take care of a section of railroad track.
- segmentation — division into segments.
- seismologist — the science or study of earthquakes and their phenomena.
- self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
- 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.
- seronegative — showing no significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, that would indicate previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
- serotonergic — containing or activated by serotonin.
- 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.
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortsighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
- signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
- silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- snaggletooth — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
- snollygoster — a clever, unscrupulous person.
- sociogenetic — contributing to or affecting the course of social development: sociogenetic factors leading to war.
- 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.
- sooty grouse — blue grouse.
- sorting code — a sequence of numbers printed on a cheque or embossed on a bank or building-society card that identifies the branch holding the account
- 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.
- spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- speleologist — the exploration and study of caves.
- sphygmometer — a device which measures the rate of the pulse
- sponge cloth — any cloth loosely woven of coarse yarn to produce a spongy look or texture, especially one constructed in honeycomb weave.
- spot welding — fusing metal
- st. george's — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- stage pocket — one of several metal boxes placed backstage in the floor (floor pocket) or wall of a theater and containing jacks for electric cables used in lighting units.