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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.
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