12-letter words containing s, a, l, g
- passing lane — a highway lane in which a driver may pass other vehicles legally.
- pearly gates — the entrance to heaven.
- perez galdos — Benito [buh-nee-toh;; Spanish be-nee-taw] /bəˈni toʊ;; Spanish bɛˈni tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1843–1920, Spanish journalist, dramatist, and novelist.
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- pestological — relating to pestology
- 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.
- pig islander — a New Zealander
- pilot signal — a signal, as a flag or light, used to request a pilot.
- piss-elegant — displaying a contrived, often pretentious, sophistication, opulence, etc.
- plagiarising — to take and use by plagiarism.
- 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.
- plug casting — bait casting in which a plug is used as the lure.
- plumbaginous — containing graphite.
- plunge basin — a cavity at the base of a falls or cataract, formed by the action of the falling water.
- poison gland — a gland in some fish and amphibians that secretes venomous material
- polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
- polygamistic — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- pomona glass — an American art glass having one of its surfaces stained a pale amber color and the other surface etched.
- popular song — a song that is written to have an immediate and wide appeal and is usually popular for only a short time, but that sometimes is of a sufficiently high quality to become part of the permanent repertoire of popular music and jazz. Compare standard (def 12).
- port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
- post-glacial — after a given glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene.
- postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- potamologist — a specialist in potamology
- preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
- 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.
- protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- qinling shan — mountain range in NC China, extending across Gansu, Shaanxi, & Henan provinces: highest peak, c. 13,500 ft (4,115 m)
- quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
- quartz glass — lechatelierite.
- quasilogical — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- radical sign — the symbol √ or indicating extraction of a root of the quantity that follows it, as √25=5 or .
- 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.
- reading list — a list of sources (recommended by a teacher or university lecturer) which provide additional or background information on a subject being studied
- real storage — (in a virtual storage system) the portion of addressable memory that consists of main storage.
- reassemblage — a new or further gathering or collection
- reassuringly — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- regardlessly — having or showing no regard; heedless; unmindful (often followed by of).
- registerable — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- rio gallegos — a seaport in S Argentina, in S Patagonia.
- rolled glass — a sheet of glass made by the extrusion of molten glass between two rollers.
- 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.
- sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- sacring bell — a small bell rung at the elevation of the Host and chalice during Mass
- safety glass — a pane made by joining two plates or panes of glass with a layer of usually transparent plastic or artificial resin between them that retains the fragments if the glass is broken.
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- sailboarding — windsurfing.
- sailing boat — sailboat.
- sailing date — the date that a ship or boat departs on a sailing voyage