12-letter words containing r, i, n, g, t, o
- serotonergic — containing or activated by serotonin.
- 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
- shortcomings — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
- significator — a planet deemed significant in astrology
- sitting room — a small living room, often one that forms part of a suite in a hotel, private house, etc.
- sitting trot — a horse's trot during which the rider sits still in the saddle
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- 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
- sorting yard — sorting tracks.
- sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
- sporting dog — one of any of several breeds of usually large dogs especially suited by size and training for hunting by pointing, flushing, and retrieving game and including the pointers, setters, retrievers, and spaniels.
- sporting gun — a gun intended for hunting
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stereognosis — the ability to determine the shape and weight of an object by touching or lifting it.
- stereotyping — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- stockbroking — business of buying and selling stock
- storage ring — a device for storing charged particles fed from an accelerator, consisting of a set of magnets placed in a ring and adjusted to keep the particles circulating until they are used.
- storage unit — rented space to store items
- storm signal — a visual signal, as a flag, giving advance notice of a heavy storm, used especially along coastal areas.
- storytelling — the telling or writing of stories.
- string along — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- stringcourse — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
- strong drink — alcoholic drink
- strong point — Bridge. a long suit that contains high cards.
- strongsville — a town in N Ohio.
- strongylosis — a disease, especially of horses, caused by an infestation by strongyles and characterized in serious cases by weakness and anemia.
- sugarcoating — the act or process of covering something with sugar.
- supportingly — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- svga monitor — (hardware, graphics) A monitor capable of displaying the output of an SVGA card.
- tangier zone — a former internationalized zone on the Strait of Gibraltar: became a part of Morocco 1956. Compare Morocco (def 1).
- tanjungpriok — a port in Indonesia, on the NW coast of Java adjoining the capital, Jakarta: a major shipping and distributing centre for the whole archipelago
- terraforming — to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.
- theatregoing — the act of regularly attending the theatre
- through-line — a theme or idea that runs from the beginning to the end of a book, film, etc
- to ring true — If a statement rings true, it seems to be true or genuine. If it rings hollow, it does not seem to be true or genuine.
- top dressing — tennis court
- top grafting — grafting in the top, as of a tree, in order to replace existing branches with those of a more desired variety or form.
- torch singer — a singer, especially a woman, who specializes in singing torch songs.
- trading post — a store established in an unsettled or thinly settled region by a trader or trading company to obtain furs and local products in exchange for supplies, clothing, other goods, or for cash.
- tragic irony — dramatic irony in tragic drama.
- transforming — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transmogrify — to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
- trapshooting — the sport of shooting at clay pigeons hurled into the air from a trap.
- trigonometer — any of various instruments used in trigonometry