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

  • necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
  • net earnings — income after tax
  • neutralising — Present participle of neutralise.
  • newsgatherer — A person involved in newsgathering.
  • newspapering — Present participle of newspaper.
  • noise margin — (electronics)   The voltage difference between the guaranteed output level and the required input voltage level of a logic gate.
  • nonabsorbing — That does not absorb (sound, radiation, fluid etc.).
  • nonglamorous — not glamorous
  • nonpassenger — One who is not a passenger.
  • nonstrategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
  • nugatoriness — Quality of being nugatory.
  • 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.
  • opera singer — a professional singer of opera
  • orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
  • organ screen — an ornamental screen closing off an organ chamber in a church.
  • organisation — the act or process of organizing.
  • original sin — Theology. a depravity, or tendency to evil, held to be innate in humankind and transmitted from Adam to all humans in consequence of his sin. inclination to evil, inherent in human nature.
  • originations — Plural form of origination.
  • osage orange — Also called bois d'arc, bowwood. a tree, Maclura pomifera, of the mulberry family, native to the south-central U.S., having hard, yellowish wood and often cultivated for hedges.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
  • overdiagnose — (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
  • oversanguine — too optimistic
  • overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
  • pair skating — a form of competitive skating in which a man and a woman skate together in performing a choreographed series of jumps, lifts, and other acrobatic moves to a selection of music.
  • palm springs — a city in S California: resort.
  • paragnathism — the condition or fact of having upper and lower jaws of equal length
  • paragnathous — (of certain vertebrates) having the upper and lower jaws of equal length
  • paralysingly — in a manner that paralyses
  • paraphrasing — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
  • parascending — parasailing
  • parting shot — a threat, insult, condemnation, sarcastic retort, or the like, uttered upon leaving.
  • pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
  • phrasemonger — phrasemaker (def 2).
  • piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
  • pig islander — a New Zealander
  • plagiarising — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
  • pogson ratio — the brightness ratio of two celestial objects that differ by one magnitude. On the Pogson scale a difference of 5 magnitudes is defined as a difference of 100 in the intensities of two stars; therefore a difference of 1 magnitude is equal to the fifth root of 100, i.e. 2.512
  • ponta grossa — a city in S Brazil.
  • 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.
  • pre-assigned — Law. to transfer: to assign a contract.
  • predesignate — to designate beforehand.
  • prediagnosis — Medicine/Medical. the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition. the decision reached from such an examination. Abbreviation: Dx.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • press agency — news-reporting organization
  • prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
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