13-letter words containing s, o, g, a
- power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
- primatologist — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
- program music — music intended to convey an impression of a definite series of images, scenes, or events.
- progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
- prosopagnosia — an inability to recognize faces
- prosopography — a study of a collection of persons or characters, especially their appearances, careers, personalities, etc., within a historical, literary, or social context.
- prostaglandin — Biochemistry. any of a class of unsaturated fatty acids that are involved in the contraction of smooth muscle, the control of inflammation and body temperature, and many other physiological functions.
- provost guard — a detachment of soldiers assigned to police duties under the provost marshal.
- psychographer — a person who writes a psychograph; a psychological or psychographic biographer.
- psychographic — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- psychological — of or relating to psychology.
- rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
- ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
- raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
- rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
- reassignation — an appointment for a meeting, especially a lover's secret rendezvous.
- redesignation — an act of designating.
- regardless of — in spite of
- regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
- regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
- reprographics — reprography.
- resegregation — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
- rising action — a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.
- roasting jack — a rotating spit for roasting meat on
- rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
- rogation days — Usually, rogations. Ecclesiastical. solemn supplication, especially as chanted during procession on the three days (Rogation Days) before Ascension Day.
- roger-ducasse — Jean Jules Amable [zhahn zhyl a-ma-bluh] /ʒɑ̃ ʒül aˈma blə/ (Show IPA), 1873–1954, French composer.
- rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
- romanticising — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
- rough as bags — uncouth
- rough passage — a stormy sea journey
- saint gregory — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- salpingostomy — the formation of an artificial opening into a Fallopian tube.
- salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
- santo domingo — a republic in the West Indies, occupying the E part of the island of Hispaniola. 19,129 sq. mi. (49,545 sq. km). Capital: Santo Domingo.
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- saurognathous — related to or resembling the Saurognathae family of birds that possess palate bones similar to those in saurians or lizards
- savings ratio — the ratio of personal savings to disposable income, esp using the difference between national figures for disposable income and consumer spending as a measure of savings
- savoy cabbage — a variety of cabbage having a compact head of crinkled, blistered leaves.
- scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
- second-grader — a pupil who is in the second grade
- segregational — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
- selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.