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

  • sailing ship — a large ship equipped with sails.
  • salary range — pay scale
  • sales ledger — record of business accounts
  • sales target — a fixed amount of sales that a person or organization wants to achieve
  • salpiglossis — any solanaceous plant of the Chilean genus Salpiglossis, some species of which are cultivated for their bright funnel-shaped flowers
  • salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
  • salve regina — a prayer in the form of a hymn to the Virgin Mary.
  • sandblasting — the act or process of using a sandblast to clean, grind, or decorate a surface
  • sandy blight — trachoma.
  • sanguicolous — living in the blood, as a parasite.
  • sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
  • sankt gallen — German name of St. Gallen.
  • saprobiology — the branch of ecology that studies decaying organic matter or environments, especially saprophytes that derive nourishment in this way.
  • saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
  • sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
  • saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
  • sausage curl — a lock of hair formed into a curl resembling a sausage in shape.
  • sausage roll — A sausage roll is a small amount of sausage meat which is covered with pastry and cooked.
  • scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
  • scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
  • scarlet sage — a tender shrub, Salvia splendens, of Brazil, having ovate leaves and bell-shaped scarlet flowers.
  • scatological — the study of or preoccupation with excrement or obscenity.
  • scatteringly — in a scattering manner
  • scots gaelic — Scottish Gaelic
  • scramblingly — in a scrambling manner
  • scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • seating plan — layout of seats at a venue or on transport
  • secant angle — an angle formed by two secants meeting in a point
  • 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.
  • see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
  • seeing glass — a looking glass; mirror.
  • segmentalize — to make segmentalized.
  • selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • self-antigen — autoantigen.
  • self-basting — (of a turkey) prepared with oil or butter to remain moist when cooked in an oven.
  • self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
  • self-dealing — financial transaction conducted on a personal, nonbusinesslike basis, as lending or borrowing of corporate money by a director.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-healing — curing or curative; prescribed or helping to heal.
  • self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
  • self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
  • self-playing — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • self-raising — a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
  • self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
  • self-sealing — capable of sealing itself automatically or without the application of adhesive, glue, or moisture: a self-sealing automobile tire; self-sealing envelopes.
  • self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
  • self-tanning — cosmetic substance applied to the skin to simulate a suntan
  • self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet
  • selling race — a claiming race at the end of which the winning horse is offered for sale.
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