12-letter words containing y, g, p
- sleeper goby — any gobioid fish of the family Eleotridae, of brackish or fresh tropical waters, resembling the gobies but lacking a ventral sucker
- spatiography — the study of the characteristics of space beyond the atmosphere, including the mapping of the movements of celestial bodies and the recording of electrical, magnetic, and gravitational effects, especially those likely to affect missiles and spacecraft.
- speechifying — Speechifying is the making of speeches, especially because you want to appear important.
- sphenography — the art of writing in cuneiform characters.
- sphygmograph — an instrument for recording the rapidity, strength, and uniformity of the arterial pulse.
- sphygmometer — a device which measures the rate of the pulse
- sphygmophone — a device by which a pulse may be heard
- sphygmoscope — a device for studying or examining the pulse
- splenomegaly — enlargement of the spleen.
- spongillafly — spongefly.
- sprightfully — in a sprightful manner
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- steatopygous — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- stereography — the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane.
- 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.
- stratigraphy — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
- stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
- superhighway — a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway. Compare expressway.
- supportingly — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- surpassingly — of a large amount or high degree; exceeding, excelling, or extraordinary: structures of surpassing magnificence.
- surprisingly — causing surprise, wonder, or astonishment.
- sympathizing — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
- technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
- thermography — a technique for imitating an embossed appearance, as on business cards, stationery, or the like, by dusting printed areas with a powder that adheres only to the wet ink, and fusing the ink and powder to the paper by heat.
- touch-typing — the act of typing without having to look at the keys of the typewriter or computer keyboard
- triple bogey — a score of three strokes over par on a hole.
- trying plane — a plane with a long body for planing the edges of long boards
- typing error — an error made while using a keyboard to write something
- typing paper — paper for typing on
- typing speed — the number of words someone can accurately type in one minute
- typographist — a person skilled in the art of typography
- unaspiringly — in an unambitious or unaspiring manner
- unpleasingly — in an unpleasing manner
- unrepiningly — in an unrepining manner
- wackyparsing — (Internet, slang) present participle of wackyparse.
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
- whimperingly — In a whimpering way.
- whipping boy — a person who is made to bear the blame for another's mistake; scapegoat.
- whisperingly — In a whispering manner; quietly.
- yachting cap — a cap with a round flat top and a visor
- yellow pages — Network Information Service
- zoogeography — the science dealing with the geographical distribution of animals.
- zoophytology — the branch of zoology concerning zoophytes
- zygapophysis — one of the four processes of a vertebra, occurring in pairs that interlock each vertebra with the vertebrae above and below.