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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.
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