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12-letter words containing s, a, g, i, t, r

  • miscegenator — a person who advocates or engages in miscegenation
  • misfeaturing — distorting the features
  • mooring mast — the mast or tower to which a dirigible is moored.
  • morning star — a bright planet, especially Venus, seen in the east immediately before sunrise.
  • nai register — (in Britain) a list of children deemed to be at risk of abuse or injury from their parents or guardians, compiled and held by a local authority, area health authority, or NSPCC Special Unit
  • naturalising — Present participle of naturalise.
  • near-sighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
  • net earnings — income after tax
  • neutralising — Present participle of neutralise.
  • nonstrategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
  • nugatoriness — Quality of being nugatory.
  • opisthograph — a manuscript, parchment, or book having writing on both sides of the leaves.
  • orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
  • organisation — the act or process of organizing.
  • originations — Plural form of origination.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
  • overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
  • pair skating — a form of competitive skating in which a man and a woman skate together in performing a choreographed series of jumps, lifts, and other acrobatic moves to a selection of music.
  • paragnathism — the condition or fact of having upper and lower jaws of equal length
  • parasitology — the branch of biology dealing with parasites and the effects of parasitism.
  • parting shot — a threat, insult, condemnation, sarcastic retort, or the like, uttered upon leaving.
  • pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
  • plagiaristic — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
  • poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
  • pogson ratio — the brightness ratio of two celestial objects that differ by one magnitude. On the Pogson scale a difference of 5 magnitudes is defined as a difference of 100 in the intensities of two stars; therefore a difference of 1 magnitude is equal to the fifth root of 100, i.e. 2.512
  • polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
  • postorgasmic — of or relating to the period after an orgasm
  • postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
  • pragmaticism — the pragmatist philosophy of C. S. Peirce, chiefly a theory of meaning: so called by him to distinguish it from the pragmatism of William James.
  • pragmaticist — a follower of the doctrine of pragmatism
  • predesignate — to designate beforehand.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • prestigiator — someone who practises sorcery or prestidigitation
  • propagandist — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
  • quitch grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
  • racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
  • ranjit singh — ("Lion of the Punjab") 1780–1839, Indian maharaja: founder of the Sikh kingdom of Punjab.
  • reading list — a list of sources (recommended by a teacher or university lecturer) which provide additional or background information on a subject being studied
  • reassignment — something assigned, as a particular task or duty: She completed the assignment and went on to other jobs.
  • red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
  • redesignated — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
  • registerable — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
  • registrating — to select and combine pipe organ stops.
  • registration — the act of registering.
  • restrainings — acts of restraining
  • roasting ear — an ear of sweet corn suitable for roasting while still in the husk.
  • rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
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