12-letter words containing s, i, g, n, p
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- preschooling — the education of preschool children.
- prescreening — to screen in advance; select before a more detailed selecting process.
- priggishness — a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- prodigal son — a figure in a parable of Jesus (Luke 15:11–32); a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him.
- progenitress — a female progenitor (parent or ancestor)
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- pronouncings — utterances, esp of an official or judgmental nature
- propagandism — the art, system, or use of propaganda
- propagandist — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
- prophesyings — gatherings held to expound the prophecies of the Scriptures
- prostituting — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- provisioning — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- psychognosis — the use of hypnosis to study mental phenomena
- puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pull strings — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- push polling — the use of loaded questions in a supposedly objective telephone opinion poll during a political campaign in order to bias voters against an opposing candidate
- pussyfooting — behaving in an excessively cautious way
- pyrognostics — the characteristics of a mineral, such as fusibility and flame coloration, that are revealed by the application of heat
- pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
- r.s.v.p.'ing — to reply to an invitation: Don't forget to RSVP before Thursday.
- replenishing — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- representing — to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize: In this painting the cat represents evil and the bird, good.
- reprocessing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- ring spanner — tool for turning screws
- risk pooling — Risk pooling is the practice of sharing all risks among a group of insurance companies.
- rock springs — a city in SW Wyoming.
- rose pogonia — a North American terrestrial orchid, Pogonia ophioglossoides, having a fragrant, usually solitary rose-pink or white flower.
- rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
- safe-keeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
- sago pudding — a sweet pudding made with sago and milk
- sailing ship — a large ship equipped with sails.
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- sand springs — a town in NE Oklahoma.
- sandpainting — a type of painting done by American Indians, esp in the healing ceremonies of the Navaho, using fine coloured sand on a neutral ground
- sandpapering — the act or process of polishing or grinding a surface with or as if with sandpaper
- scapegoating — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
- scorekeeping — an official of a sports contest who keeps record of the score.
- scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
- scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
- seating plan — layout of seats at a venue or on transport
- self-pitying — Someone who is self-pitying is full of self-pity.
- self-playing — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- self-priming — the powder or other material used to ignite a charge.
- self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet