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12-letter words containing s, o, n, g, r, a

  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • 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.
  • progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
  • propagandism — the art, system, or use of propaganda
  • propagandist — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
  • 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.
  • registration — the act of registering.
  • roasting ear — an ear of sweet corn suitable for roasting while still in the husk.
  • rogue's yarn — a yarn of distinctive color, material, or twist, laid in a strand or strands of a rope to identify the owner or the maker.
  • rose pogonia — a North American terrestrial orchid, Pogonia ophioglossoides, having a fragrant, usually solitary rose-pink or white flower.
  • sailboarding — windsurfing.
  • sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
  • sanguivorous — feeding on blood, as a bat or insect.
  • 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.
  • scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
  • scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
  • scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
  • sea crossing — a journey by sea from one coast to another
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • second grade — school year: age 7-8
  • selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • semi-organic — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
  • seronegative — showing no significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, that would indicate previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
  • shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
  • short-acting — (of a drug) quickly effective, but requiring regularly repeated doses for long-term treatment, being rapidly absorbed, distributed in the body, and excreted
  • short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • sigma baryon — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
  • signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
  • signal corps — a branch of the army responsible for military communications, meteorological studies, and related work.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • significator — a planet deemed significant in astrology
  • sloganeering — Sloganeering is the use of slogans by people such as politicians or advertising agencies.
  • smoking area — a designated area in which smoking is permitted
  • snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
  • snowboarding — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
  • sofa surfing — (of a homeless person) the practice of staying temporarily with various friends and relatives while attempting to find permanent accommodation
  • solar energy — energy derived from the sun in the form of solar radiation.
  • solenogaster — any of a group of wormlike mollusks, class Solenogastres (formerly Aplacophora), inhabiting deep ocean layers and having fine limy spicules on the covering mantle.
  • song sparrow — a small emberizine songbird, Melospiza melodia, common in North America.
  • sorting yard — sorting tracks.
  • south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • speech organ — any part of the body, as the tongue, velum, diaphragm, or lungs, that participates, actively or passively, voluntarily or involuntarily, in the production of the sounds of speech.
  • spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
  • sphenography — the art of writing in cuneiform characters.
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