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14-letter words containing s, p, o, n, g

  • rite of spring — French Le Sacre du Printemps. a ballet suite (1913) for orchestra by Igor Stravinsky.
  • roentgenoscope — a fluoroscope.
  • sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
  • scorpion grass — either of two small Old World plants, Myosotis sylvatica or M. scorpioides, of the borage family, having a light-blue flower commonly regarded as an emblem of constancy and friendship.
  • screen popping — (communications)   The use of CTI to make customer data appear on a call centre terminal at the same time as the customer call is transferred.
  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • self-poisoning — illness due to the taking of poison
  • sheep-worrying — the act (of a dog, sheepdog, wolf, etc) of chasing a flock of sheep and biting or injuring the sheep
  • shoe repairing — the trade of mending shoes
  • shooting party — a social gathering when people shoot game together
  • shooting spree — a series of shootings by a mad person
  • shopping hours — the times during which shops are open
  • shopping plaza — a complex of stores, banks, movie theaters, etc.; shopping center.
  • shopping spree — frenzied, indulgent buying
  • singular point — a point at which a given function of a complex variable has no derivative but of which every neighborhood contains points at which the function has derivatives.
  • sleeping porch — a porch enclosed with glass or screening or a room with open sides or a row of windows used for sleeping in the open air.
  • social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
  • something's up — something is amiss
  • sophisticating — a sophisticated person.
  • speaking clock — a telephone service that gives a precise verbal statement of the correct time
  • speaking voice — a person's normal voice in which they speak
  • spelling error — an error in the conventionally accepted form of spelling a word
  • spending money — money for small personal expenses.
  • spending power — income available for spending
  • spermatogenous — producing spermatozoa.
  • spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
  • spermiogenesis — the development of a spermatozoon from a spermatid.
  • spitting cobra — any cobra or cobralike snake, especially the ringhals, that sprays venom at the eyes of approaching animals.
  • splinter group — a small organization that becomes separated from or acts apart from an original larger group or a number of other small groups, with which it would normally be united, as because of disagreement.
  • sponge pudding — a light steamed or baked pudding, spongy in texture, made with various flavourings or fruit
  • sporangiophore — a structure bearing sporangia.
  • sporangiospore — a spore that is produced within a sporangium.
  • sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
  • spring equinox — the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth and occurring about March 21 (vernal equinox or spring equinox) and September 22 (autumnal equinox)
  • spring molding — a molded board, as one forming part of a cornice, placed diagonally and secured at the ends to two surfaces intersecting at a right angle.
  • springboarding — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • springform pan — a metal cake pan with sides that can be unfastened to facilitate releasing the cake when done.
  • starting point — place where sth begins
  • steganographer — an expert in steganography
  • steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
  • stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
  • stepping stone — stone: used to cross water
  • sticking point — a point, detail, or circumstance causing or likely to cause a stalemate or impasse: The bill would have gone through the Senate quickly but for one sticking point.
  • stopping place — a place where vehicles may stop temporarily
  • stopping power — a measure of the effect a substance has on the kinetic energy of a particle passing through it
  • stopping train — a train that stops at local stations as well as the main ones
  • storming party — a group deployed to make the first assault on a position or building
  • strip cropping — the growing of different crops on alternate strips of ground that usually follow the contour of the land, a recourse to minimize erosion.
  • sulfinyl group — the bivalent group >SO.
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