13-letter words containing s, a, p, r, o, g
- post-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- postage meter — an office machine used in bulk mailing that imprints prepaid postage and a dated postmark.
- postage rates — the rates charged for the delivery of mail, depending on type, weight etc
- postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
- pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
- power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
- primatologist — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
- program music — music intended to convey an impression of a definite series of images, scenes, or events.
- progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
- prosopagnosia — an inability to recognize faces
- prosopography — a study of a collection of persons or characters, especially their appearances, careers, personalities, etc., within a historical, literary, or social context.
- prostaglandin — Biochemistry. any of a class of unsaturated fatty acids that are involved in the contraction of smooth muscle, the control of inflammation and body temperature, and many other physiological functions.
- provost guard — a detachment of soldiers assigned to police duties under the provost marshal.
- psychographer — a person who writes a psychograph; a psychological or psychographic biographer.
- psychographic — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- reprographics — reprography.
- rough passage — a stormy sea journey
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- shell program — A shell program is a basic computer program that provides a framework within which the user can develop the program to suit their own needs.
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
- sporting lady — a prostitute.
- sportscasting — the reporting of a sports event by radio or television broadcast.
- spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
- springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- standing crop — the totality of living things in an ecosystem at a given time.
- starting post — the upright pole marking the beginning of a racecourse
- staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
- steganography — the practice of concealing messages in such a way that only the sender and the recipient know that there is a message
- stereographer — a person who takes stereoscopic photographs.
- stork parking — spaces reserved in a parking lot for cars driven by pregnant women or new mothers.
- superorganism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- superregional — involving many regions
- symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
- taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
- trainspotting — hobby: observing trains
- vagodepressor — decreasing or mimicking the decrease of the activity of the vagus nerve.
- watering spot — watering hole
- weapons-grade — Weapons-grade substances such as uranium or plutonium are of a quality which makes them suitable for use in the manufacture of nuclear weapons.
- work stoppage — the collective stoppage of work by employees in a business or an industry to protest working conditions.
- zoosporangium — a sporangium or spore case in which zoospores are produced.
- zygosporangia — a sporangium that bears a zygospore.