12-letter words containing s, l, o, g
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- pomona glass — an American art glass having one of its surfaces stained a pale amber color and the other surface etched.
- pompholygous — characterized by pompholyx
- popular song — a song that is written to have an immediate and wide appeal and is usually popular for only a short time, but that sometimes is of a sufficiently high quality to become part of the permanent repertoire of popular music and jazz. Compare standard (def 12).
- port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
- post-glacial — after a given glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene.
- post-looping — post-synchronization.
- postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- potamologist — a specialist in potamology
- potting soil — enriched topsoil for potting plants, especially house plants.
- preschooling — the education of preschool children.
- proctologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the rectum and anus.
- 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.
- prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- prosyllogism — a syllogism the conclusion of which is used as a premise of another syllogism; any of the syllogisms included in a polysyllogism except the last.
- protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
- protistology — the biology of the Protista.
- psephologist — A psephologist studies how people vote in elections.
- psychologism — emphasis upon psychological factors in the development of a theory, as in history or philosophy.
- psychologist — a specialist in psychology.
- psychologize — to make psychological investigations or speculations, especially those that are naive or uninformed.
- public goods — services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- 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
- pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
- quasilogical — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- 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.
- real storage — (in a virtual storage system) the portion of addressable memory that consists of main storage.
- reg-symbolic — An early system on the IBM 704.
- religionless — a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
- resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
- rio gallegos — a seaport in S Argentina, in S Patagonia.
- risk pooling — Risk pooling is the practice of sharing all risks among a group of insurance companies.
- rolled glass — a sheet of glass made by the extrusion of molten glass between two rollers.
- rolling news — current affairs: continuous
- sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- sailboarding — windsurfing.
- sailing boat — sailboat.
- salpiglossis — any solanaceous plant of the Chilean genus Salpiglossis, some species of which are cultivated for their bright funnel-shaped flowers
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- sanguicolous — living in the blood, as a parasite.
- sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
- saprobiology — the branch of ecology that studies decaying organic matter or environments, especially saprophytes that derive nourishment in this way.
- saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
- sausage roll — A sausage roll is a small amount of sausage meat which is covered with pastry and cooked.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
- scatological — the study of or preoccupation with excrement or obscenity.