13-letter words containing s, p, o, n, g
- giant scallop — sea scallop.
- glockenspiels — Plural form of glockenspiel.
- glycoproteins — Plural form of glycoprotein.
- gonadotropins — Plural form of gonadotropin.
- gospel singer — a singer performing gospel music
- gossip column — newspaper: celebrity news article
- gossipmongers — Plural form of gossipmonger.
- gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
- gran paradiso — the highest peak in the Graian Alps, in N Italy. 13,324 feet (4061 meters).
- grand passion — an intense or overwhelming attraction or love.
- grey-thompson — Tanni (Carys Davina) Baroness. born 1969, Welsh wheelchair athlete; won eleven gold medals for Britain in wheelchair racing in the Paralympic Games (1988–2004); a crossbench peer in the House of Lords since 2010
- ground troops — soldiers positioned on the ground
- groundkeepers — Plural form of groundkeeper.
- groundskeeper — a person who is responsible for the care and maintenance of a particular tract of land, as an estate, a park, or a cemetery.
- growing pains — If a person or organization suffers from growing pains, they experience temporary difficulties and problems at the beginning of a particular stage of development.
- gymnospermous — of or relating to a gymnosperm; having exposed or naked seeds.
- heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
- hitching post — a post to which horses, mules, etc., are tied.
- home shopping — buying items via tv or internet
- horsewhipping — Present participle of horsewhip.
- hospitalizing — Present participle of hospitalize.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hypostatizing — Present participle of hypostatize.
- hypothesising — Present participle of hypothesise.
- hypothesizing — to form a hypothesis.
- iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
- impersonating — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- impoverishing — Present participle of impoverish.
- in good shape — person: fit, healthy
- introspecting — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- jumping mouse — any of several primitive, mouselike rodents of the family Zapodidae, having long hind legs, common in the woodlands of Europe, Asia, and North America.
- jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
- laryngoscopes — Plural form of laryngoscope.
- laryngoscopic — Of or pertaining to laryngoscopy.
- leptomeninges — The inner two meninges, the arachnoid and the pia mater, between which circulates the cerebrospinal fluid.
- lymphangiomas — Plural form of lymphangioma.
- magnetographs — Plural form of magnetograph.
- magnetooptics — the branch of physics that deals with magnetooptic phenomena.
- magnetosphere — the outer region of the earth's ionosphere, where the earth's magnetic field controls the motion of charged particles, as in the Van Allen belts. Compare magnetopause.
- mastigophoran — Also, mastigophore [mas-ti-guh-fawr, -fohr] /ˈmæs tɪ gəˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr/ (Show IPA). a protozoan of the phylum Mastigophora.
- megasporangia — a sporangium containing megaspores.
- moneyspinning — earning money or making a profit
- morphogenesis — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
- mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
- myringoplasty — (surgery) The closure of the perforation of pars tensa of the tympanic membrane.
- nasopharynges — Plural form of nasopharynx.
- newgroup wars — /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [Usenet] The salvos of dueling "newgroup" and "rmgroup" messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide, or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed. These usually settle out within a week or two as it becomes clear whether the group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times, especially in the completely anarchic alt hierarchy, the names of newsgroups themselves become a form of comment or humour; e.g. the spinoff of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork from alt.tv.muppets in early 1990, or any number of specialised abuse groups named after particularly notorious flamers, e.g. alt.weemba.
- nitroso group — the univalent group O=N–.
- noise shaping — (communications) Spectral noise transformation in a quantisation processes. Noise is "colourised" in the time domain an/or frequency domain by adding parts of the previous sample. The SNR bandwidth and SNR time integral stay the same, so some noise decreases, some increases, but overall noise always increases. An example of noise shaping in the frequency domain is quantisation of samples on a Compact Disc to reduce noise below -98 dB. The are different algorithms with slightly different filters, e.g. Super Bitmapping, 4D Recording. A time domain example is MPEG-4 AAC TNS, which is a method to enhance quality by temporal forming of the noise in a transform block.
- nondiapausing — lacking a diapause