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12-letter words containing s, a, g, m

  • mystagogical — someone who instructs others before initiation into religious mysteries or before participation in the sacraments.
  • nematologist — One who studies nematology.
  • nemean games — one of the great national festivals of ancient Greece, held at Nemea in the second and fourth year of each Olympiad.
  • newsmagazine — a periodical specializing in reports and commentaries on current events, usually issued weekly.
  • noise margin — (electronics)   The voltage difference between the guaranteed output level and the required input voltage level of a logic gate.
  • noise-making — a person or thing that makes noise, as a reveler on New Year's Eve, Halloween, etc., or a rattle, horn, or similar device used on such an occasion.
  • nonambiguous — not ambiguous, clear
  • nonglamorous — not glamorous
  • nonsegmental — Not segmental.
  • numbers game — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
  • nutmeg state — Connecticut (used as a nickname).
  • old guardism — political conservatism.
  • oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
  • onomasiology — the study of the means of expressing a given concept.
  • oscillograms — Plural form of oscillogram.
  • oxidant smog — photochemical smog.
  • palm springs — a city in S California: resort.
  • pampas grass — a tall, ornamental grass, Cortaderia selloana, native to South America, having large, thick, feathery, silvery-white panicles.
  • paragnathism — the condition or fact of having upper and lower jaws of equal length
  • phragmoplast — the cytoplasmic structure that forms at the equator of the spindle after the chromosomes have divided during the anaphase of plant mitosis, and that initiates cell division.
  • phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
  • phrasemonger — phrasemaker (def 2).
  • plumbaginous — containing graphite.
  • polygamistic — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
  • pomona glass — an American art glass having one of its surfaces stained a pale amber color and the other surface etched.
  • postorgasmic — of or relating to the period after an orgasm
  • postvagotomy — of or occurring in the period after a vagotomy
  • potamologist — a specialist in potamology
  • 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
  • progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
  • propagandism — the art, system, or use of propaganda
  • quadragesima — the first Sunday in Lent.
  • ragman rolls — Usually, ragman rolls. a series of documents in which the Scottish nobles acknowledged their allegiance to Edward I of England, 1291–92 and 1296.
  • reassemblage — a new or further gathering or collection
  • reassignment — something assigned, as a particular task or duty: She completed the assignment and went on to other jobs.
  • risk manager — A risk manager is a person who works in risk management.
  • risk-manager — the technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etc.
  • rummage sale — a sale of miscellaneous articles, old or new, as items contributed to raise money for charity, of unclaimed goods at a wharf or warehouse, or of odds and ends of merchandise at a shop.
  • rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
  • salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
  • sausage meat — minced and processed pork
  • scapegoatism — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
  • scramblingly — in a scrambling manner
  • seam binding — a narrow strip of fabric attached to the unfinished edge of a seam or hem to keep it from raveling.
  • sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
  • segmentalize — to make segmentalized.
  • segmentation — division into segments.
  • seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
  • self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
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