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12-letter words containing t, o, n, g

  • spongologist — a person who studies sponges
  • sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
  • sporting dog — one of any of several breeds of usually large dogs especially suited by size and training for hunting by pointing, flushing, and retrieving game and including the pointers, setters, retrievers, and spaniels.
  • sporting gun — a gun intended for hunting
  • spot welding — fusing metal
  • spotlighting — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
  • sranan tongo — Sranan.
  • staging post — an area, as a port of embarkation, where troops are assembled and readied for transit to a new field of operations.
  • stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
  • steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
  • steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
  • stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
  • stenographer — a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
  • stereognosis — the ability to determine the shape and weight of an object by touching or lifting it.
  • stereotyping — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • stockbroking — business of buying and selling stock
  • stocking cap — a long, conical, knitted cap, usually with a tassel or pompon at the tip.
  • stockingless — not wearing or having stockings
  • stone-ground — (of wheat or other grain) ground between millstones, especially those made of burstone, so as to retain the whole of the grain and preserve nutritional content.
  • stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
  • stool pigeon — a pigeon used as a decoy.
  • storage ring — a device for storing charged particles fed from an accelerator, consisting of a set of magnets placed in a ring and adjusted to keep the particles circulating until they are used.
  • storage tank — A storage tank is a large vessel for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
  • storage unit — rented space to store items
  • storm signal — a visual signal, as a flag, giving advance notice of a heavy storm, used especially along coastal areas.
  • storytelling — the telling or writing of stories.
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • string along — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • stringcourse — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
  • stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
  • strong drink — alcoholic drink
  • strong force — Also called nuclear force. the short-range attractive force between baryons that holds together the nucleus of the atom.
  • strong point — Bridge. a long suit that contains high cards.
  • strongsville — a town in N Ohio.
  • strongylosis — a disease, especially of horses, caused by an infestation by strongyles and characterized in serious cases by weakness and anemia.
  • stuffing box — a device for preventing leakage of gases or liquids along a moving rod or shaft at the point at which it leaves a cylinder, tank, ship hull, etc.
  • sugarcoating — the act or process of covering something with sugar.
  • supportingly — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
  • svga monitor — (hardware, graphics)   A monitor capable of displaying the output of an SVGA card.
  • sweet orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • synecologist — a student of, or expert in, synecology
  • tag question — Also called tag. a short interrogative structure appended to a statement or command, as isn't it in It's raining, isn't it?, are you in You're not going, are you?, or German nicht wahr.
  • talking book — a phonograph record or tape recording of readings of a book, magazine, etc., made especially for use by the blind.
  • talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
  • tangier zone — a former internationalized zone on the Strait of Gibraltar: became a part of Morocco 1956. Compare Morocco (def 1).
  • tanjungpriok — a port in Indonesia, on the NW coast of Java adjoining the capital, Jakarta: a major shipping and distributing centre for the whole archipelago
  • tao te ching — the philosophical book in verse supposedly written by Lao-tzu.
  • teaching job — a position as a teacher
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