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.