12-letter words containing r, i, g, o, s
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- preschooling — the education of preschool children.
- prestigiator — someone who practises sorcery or prestidigitation
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- proctologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the rectum and anus.
- prodigal son — a figure in a parable of Jesus (Luke 15:11–32); a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him.
- prodigiosity — the state or quality of being immense, extraordinary or astonishing
- prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- progenitress — a female progenitor (parent or ancestor)
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- pronouncings — utterances, esp of an official or judgmental nature
- propagandism — the art, system, or use of propaganda
- propagandist — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
- prophesyings — gatherings held to expound the prophecies of the Scriptures
- prostituting — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- prosyllogism — a syllogism the conclusion of which is used as a premise of another syllogism; any of the syllogisms included in a polysyllogism except the last.
- protistology — the biology of the Protista.
- provisioning — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- pyrognostics — the characteristics of a mineral, such as fusibility and flame coloration, that are revealed by the application of heat
- pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- reg-symbolic — An early system on the IBM 704.
- 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.
- religionless — a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
- reprocessing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- rhizophagous — feeding on roots.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- riding boots — long boots worn for horse-riding
- rigor mortis — the stiffening of the body after death.
- rio gallegos — a seaport in S Argentina, in S Patagonia.
- risk pooling — Risk pooling is the practice of sharing all risks among a group of insurance companies.
- 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.
- rock springs — a city in SW Wyoming.
- rolling news — current affairs: continuous
- rose pogonia — a North American terrestrial orchid, Pogonia ophioglossoides, having a fragrant, usually solitary rose-pink or white flower.
- roughhousing — the act of behaving in a boisterous or rough way
- running shoe — trainer, sneaker
- rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
- sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- sailboarding — windsurfing.
- sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
- sanguivorous — feeding on blood, as a bat or insect.
- saprobiology — the branch of ecology that studies decaying organic matter or environments, especially saprophytes that derive nourishment in this way.
- saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
- scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- schooner rig — a rig in which the mainmast is taller than the foremast