12-letter words containing s, g, r
- sranan tongo — Sranan.
- st. george's — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- st. gotthard — a mountain range in S Switzerland; a part of the Alps; highest peak, 10,490 feet (3195 meters).
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- stage fright — nervousness felt by a performer or speaker when appearing before an audience.
- stage-driver — the driver of a stagecoach.
- stage-struck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
- stagger head — dropline.
- 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.
- stara zagora — a city in central Bulgaria.
- starry night — a painting (1889) by Vincent van Gogh.
- status group — a social stratum sharing the same lifestyle or occupation and having the same level of prestige.
- 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.
- steel guitar — an acoustic, handheld guitar having a metal resonator and producing a wailing, variable sound.
- steering arm — the part of a vehicle's chassis that directs the input from the steering box
- steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
- stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
- 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.
- stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
- stereognosis — the ability to determine the shape and weight of an object by touching or lifting it.
- stereography — the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane.
- stereotyping — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- sterlingness — the state of being sterling or having the quality of sterling
- stick figure — a diagrammatic drawing representing a human or animal, usually made with one line each for the torso and appendages, and often a circle for the head.
- stigmasterol — a crystalline, water-insoluble steroid, C 2 9 H 4 8 O, present in soybeans or calabar beans, used chiefly as a raw material in the manufacture of progesterone.
- stockbroking — business of buying and selling stock
- stone-ground — (of wheat or other grain) ground between millstones, especially those made of burstone, so as to retain the whole of the grain and preserve nutritional content.
- storage cell — a cell whose energy can be renewed by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to that of the flow of current generated by the cell.
- 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 tube — an electron tube in which information is stored as charges for a predetermined time
- storage unit — rented space to store items
- storage wall — a set of shelves, cabinets, or the like that covers or forms a wall.
- store-bought — commercially made rather than homemade.
- storiologist — a person who studies storiology
- storm signal — a visual signal, as a flag, giving advance notice of a heavy storm, used especially along coastal areas.
- storytelling — the telling or writing of stories.
- straight bat — a bat held vertically
- straight man — an entertainer who plays the part of a foil for a comic partner.
- straight off — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- straight out — thoroughgoing: a straight-out Democrat.
- straight pin — pin (sense 2)
- straight-arm — Football. to push (a potential tackler) away by holding the arm out straight; stiff-arm.
- straight-out — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- straightaway — straight onward, without turn or curve, as a racecourse.