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

  • slang dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering the words, phrases, and idioms that reflect the least formal speech of a language. These terms are often metaphorical and playful, and are likely to be evanescent as the spoken language changes from one generation to another. Much slang belongs to specific groups, as the jargon of a particular class, profession, or age group. Some is vulgar. Some slang terms have staying power as slang, but others make a transition into common informal speech, and then into the standard language. An online slang dictionary, such as the Dictionary.com Slang Dictionary, provides immediate information about the meaning and history of a queried term and its appropriateness or lack of appropriateness in a range of social and professional circumstances.
  • smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • soft brown sugar — a type of moist sugar made by coating white sugar with dark molasses
  • soft pornography — soft-core pornography.
  • sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
  • sphygmomanometer — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • sphygmomanometry — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
  • spring mountains — a mountain range in S Nevada extending to the California border. Highest peak, Charleston Peak. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
  • spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
  • staffing officer — someone who recruits, hires, and ensures the interests of staff and employees in an organization
  • stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
  • stagedoor johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
  • statutory change — a change in the law
  • stock car racing — the sport of racing in stock cars
  • stomach-churning — causing nausea.
  • storage terminal — A storage terminal is a building or area with large tanks for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
  • string orchestra — an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
  • strongyloidiasis — an intestinal disease caused by infection with the nematode worm Strongyloides stercoralis
  • subcartilaginous — partially or incompletely cartilaginous.
  • sugar plantation — a large area of land where sugar is grown
  • sulfanilyl group — the para form of the group C 6 H 6 NO 2 S–, derived from sulfanilic acid.
  • superior general — the superior of an order or congregation.
  • supporting actor — performer: not lead
  • swedenborgianism — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • syncategorematic — Traditional Logic. of or relating to a word that is part of a categorical proposition but is not a term, as all, some, is.
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • tracking station — a facility equipped with instrumentation for following the flight path of, communicating with, and collecting data from a rocket or spacecraft.
  • transfer molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic in which the plastic enters a closed mold from an adjoining chamber in which it has been softened.
  • velcro fastening — a fastening made of Velcro
  • virginia cowslip — a perennial woodland plant (Mertensia virginica) of the borage family, native to E North America and having clusters of blue or purple, bell-shaped flowers
  • washington thorn — a dense tree, Crataegus phaenopyrum, of the rose family, native to the eastern coast of the U.S., having triangular leaves, small clusters of white flowers, and clusters of bright red fruit.
  • women's suffrage — right of adult females to vote
  • zagros mountains — a mountain range in S Iran: has Iran's main oilfields in its W central foothills. Highest peak: Zard Kuh, 4548 m (14 920 ft)
  • zygosporangium's — a sporangium that bears a zygospore.
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