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12-letter words containing s, a, n, g, r, e

  • servant girl — a girl or woman employed as a servant who performs household duties
  • sexagenarian — of the age of 60 years or between 60 and 70 years old.
  • shagreen ray — a species of skate, Leucoraja fullonica
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
  • sherardizing — to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
  • short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • single cream — dairy product: thin or light cream
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
  • single-payer — noting or relating to a healthcare or health insurance system in which the government or a publicly owned and regulated agency pays all medical costs from a single fund.
  • single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
  • sleeping car — a railroad car fitted with berths, compartments, bedrooms, or drawing rooms for passengers to sleep in.
  • sloganeering — Sloganeering is the use of slogans by people such as politicians or advertising agencies.
  • smoking area — a designated area in which smoking is permitted
  • snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
  • solar energy — energy derived from the sun in the form of solar radiation.
  • solenogaster — any of a group of wormlike mollusks, class Solenogastres (formerly Aplacophora), inhabiting deep ocean layers and having fine limy spicules on the covering mantle.
  • south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • spearfishing — any of several fishes of the genus Tetrapturus, resembling the sailfish but having the first dorsal fin much less developed: inhabiting all seas, but rare.
  • spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
  • speech organ — any part of the body, as the tongue, velum, diaphragm, or lungs, that participates, actively or passively, voluntarily or involuntarily, in the production of the sounds of speech.
  • spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
  • sphenography — the art of writing in cuneiform characters.
  • sponged ware — spongeware.
  • sprechgesang — a vocal style intermediate between speech and singing but without exact pitch intonation.
  • spring break — a vacation from school or college during the spring term, lasting about a week.
  • spring water — water from natural underground source
  • spring-clean — to subject (a place) to a spring-cleaning.
  • spur gearing — a system of spur gears.
  • squared ring — boxing ring.
  • staggeringly — tending to stagger or overwhelm: a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.
  • staging area — an area, as a port of embarkation, where troops are assembled and readied for transit to a new field of operations.
  • stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
  • stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
  • steering arm — the part of a vehicle's chassis that directs the input from the steering box
  • steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
  • stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
  • steinamanger — German name of Szombathely.
  • stenographer — a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • storage ring — a device for storing charged particles fed from an accelerator, consisting of a set of magnets placed in a ring and adjusted to keep the particles circulating until they are used.
  • storage tank — A storage tank is a large vessel for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
  • storage unit — rented space to store items
  • straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
  • straightness — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
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