12-letter words containing s, g, r, a, m
- microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
- migrationist — a person who considers it important for species of animals and plants to migrate for the purposes of distribution and evolution
- minas gerais — a state in E Brazil. 224,701 sq. mi. (581,975 sq. km). Capital: Belo Horizonte.
- mineralogies — Plural form of mineralogy.
- mineralogist — the science or study of minerals.
- miscarriages — Plural form of miscarriage.
- miscegenator — a person who advocates or engages in miscegenation
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- monsignorial — having the ecclesiastical title of a Monsignor
- mooring mast — the mast or tower to which a dirigible is moored.
- morning star — a bright planet, especially Venus, seen in the east immediately before sunrise.
- morphographs — Plural form of morphograph.
- noise margin — (electronics) The voltage difference between the guaranteed output level and the required input voltage level of a logic gate.
- nonglamorous — not glamorous
- 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.
- old guardism — political conservatism.
- oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
- oscillograms — Plural form of oscillogram.
- palm springs — a city in S California: resort.
- pampas grass — a tall, ornamental grass, Cortaderia selloana, native to South America, having large, thick, feathery, silvery-white panicles.
- paragnathism — the condition or fact of having upper and lower jaws of equal length
- phragmoplast — the cytoplasmic structure that forms at the equator of the spindle after the chromosomes have divided during the anaphase of plant mitosis, and that initiates cell division.
- phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
- phrasemonger — phrasemaker (def 2).
- postorgasmic — of or relating to the period after an orgasm
- pragmaticism — the pragmatist philosophy of C. S. Peirce, chiefly a theory of meaning: so called by him to distinguish it from the pragmatism of William James.
- pragmaticist — a follower of the doctrine of pragmatism
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- propagandism — the art, system, or use of propaganda
- quadragesima — the first Sunday in Lent.
- ragman rolls — Usually, ragman rolls. a series of documents in which the Scottish nobles acknowledged their allegiance to Edward I of England, 1291–92 and 1296.
- reassemblage — a new or further gathering or collection
- reassignment — something assigned, as a particular task or duty: She completed the assignment and went on to other jobs.
- risk manager — A risk manager is a person who works in risk management.
- risk-manager — the technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etc.
- rummage sale — a sale of miscellaneous articles, old or new, as items contributed to raise money for charity, of unclaimed goods at a wharf or warehouse, or of odds and ends of merchandise at a shop.
- rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
- scramblingly — in a scrambling manner
- seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
- 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.
- seringapatam — a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.
- service game — a game in which a particular tennis player is the one who serves
- sigma baryon — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- simple sugar — monosaccharide.
- single cream — dairy product: thin or light cream
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- sledgehammer — a large heavy hammer wielded with both hands.
- smart growth — People such as architects and environmentalists use smart growth to refer to the construction of new buildings and roads within a town or city so that they are close to people's workplaces and mass transit systems and so that open spaces are not built on.
- smoking area — a designated area in which smoking is permitted