12-letter words containing s, t, r, a, g, e
- reassignment — something assigned, as a particular task or duty: She completed the assignment and went on to other jobs.
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- redesignated — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- registerable — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- registrating — to select and combine pipe organ stops.
- registration — the act of registering.
- report stage — the stage preceding the third reading in the passage of a bill through Parliament, at which the bill, as amended in committee, is reported back to the chamber considering it
- restrainings — acts of restraining
- roasting ear — an ear of sweet corn suitable for roasting while still in the husk.
- sales target — a fixed amount of sales that a person or organization wants to achieve
- saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
- sausage tree — a tropical African tree, Kigelia pinnata, having red, bell-shaped flowers and large, sausage-shaped fruits hanging from very long stalks.
- scarlet sage — a tender shrub, Salvia splendens, of Brazil, having ovate leaves and bell-shaped scarlet flowers.
- scattergraph — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- scatteringly — in a scattering manner
- sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
- secret agent — an agent of a secret service.
- secretagogue — a substance or situation that promotes secretion.
- self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
- selling rate — the rate at which a bank is willing to sell foreign currency
- sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
- seringapatam — a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.
- 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.
- servant girl — a girl or woman employed as a servant who performs household duties
- set straight — to give the correct facts to; inform properly
- 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.
- short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
- single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
- single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
- single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- sixth-grader — a pupil in their sixth US school year after kindergarten, who is usually around 11 or 12 years old
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- 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.
- sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
- spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- spring water — water from natural underground source
- stage fright — nervousness felt by a performer or speaker when appearing before an audience.
- stage-driver — the driver of a stagecoach.
- stage-struck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
- stagger head — dropline.
- staggeringly — tending to stagger or overwhelm: a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.
- staging area — an area, as a port of embarkation, where troops are assembled and readied for transit to a new field of operations.
- stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.