12-letter words containing t, o, n, g
- rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
- sailing boat — sailboat.
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scapegoating — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- school night — any night of the week that precedes a day of school
- scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
- sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- section gang — a group of workers who take care of a section of railroad track.
- segmentation — division into segments.
- semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
- 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.
- serotonergic — containing or activated by serotonin.
- 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.
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- shipping ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- shooting box — a small house or lodge for use during the shooting season.
- shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
- 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.
- shortcomings — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- shot on goal — a shot that enters the goal or would have entered the goal if it had not been blocked by the goalkeeper or another defensive player.
- showstopping — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
- sign-posting — a post bearing a sign that gives information or guidance.
- signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
- significator — a planet deemed significant in astrology
- silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- sitting room — a small living room, often one that forms part of a suite in a hotel, private house, etc.
- sitting trot — a horse's trot during which the rider sits still in the saddle
- slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- snaggletooth — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
- snapshotting — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- snollygoster — a clever, unscrupulous person.
- snow bunting — a bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis, of the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere having white plumage.
- sociogenetic — contributing to or affecting the course of social development: sociogenetic factors leading to war.
- soft landing — space vehicle
- 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.
- somaticizing — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
- sorting code — a sequence of numbers printed on a cheque or embossed on a bank or building-society card that identifies the branch holding the account
- sorting yard — sorting tracks.
- south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- sponge cloth — any cloth loosely woven of coarse yarn to produce a spongy look or texture, especially one constructed in honeycomb weave.
- spongioblast — one of the primordial cells in the embryonic brain and spinal cord capable of developing into neuroglia.