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

  • scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • sea crossing — a journey by sea from one coast to another
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • second grade — school year: age 7-8
  • secret agent — an agent of a secret service.
  • secretagogue — a substance or situation that promotes secretion.
  • seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
  • selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • 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-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
  • selling race — a claiming race at the end of which the winning horse is offered for sale.
  • selling rate — the rate at which a bank is willing to sell foreign currency
  • semi-organic — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
  • semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
  • sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
  • seringapatam — a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.
  • seronegative — showing no significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, that would indicate previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
  • servant girl — a girl or woman employed as a servant who performs household duties
  • service game — a game in which a particular tennis player is the one who serves
  • set straight — to give the correct facts to; inform properly
  • sewage works — a place where chemicals are used to clean sewage so that it can then be allowed to go into rivers, etc or used to make manure
  • sexagenarian — of the age of 60 years or between 60 and 70 years old.
  • shagreen ray — a species of skate, Leucoraja fullonica
  • shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
  • 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.
  • shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
  • shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
  • siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • simple sugar — monosaccharide.
  • 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.
  • sixth-grader — a pupil in their sixth US school year after kindergarten, who is usually around 11 or 12 years old
  • slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • sledgehammer — a large heavy hammer wielded with both hands.
  • sleeping car — a railroad car fitted with berths, compartments, bedrooms, or drawing rooms for passengers to sleep in.
  • slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
  • 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
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