12-letter words containing y, o, g
- radio galaxy — a galaxy that emits much more strongly in the radio part of the spectrum than does a typical galaxy.
- radiobiology — the branch of biology dealing with the effects of radiation on living matter.
- radioecology — the branch of ecology concerned with the effects of radioactivity on the environment
- reg-symbolic — An early system on the IBM 704.
- resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
- rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.
- right of way — a common law or statutory right granted to a vehicle, as an airplane or boat, to proceed ahead of another.
- roentgen ray — (sometimes lowercase) x-ray.
- rogue's yarn — a yarn of distinctive color, material, or twist, laid in a strand or strands of a rope to identify the owner or the maker.
- role playing — role-play used as a method of training or education
- role-playing — a method of instruction or psychotherapy aimed at changing attitudes and behavior, in which participants act out designated roles relevant to real-life situations.
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- saprobiology — the branch of ecology that studies decaying organic matter or environments, especially saprophytes that derive nourishment in this way.
- seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
- selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- shadowgraphy — the production of a shadowgraph
- siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
- sigma baryon — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- skew polygon — the figure formed by joining four or more points, not all in one plane, by the same number of lines
- sleeper goby — any gobioid fish of the family Eleotridae, of brackish or fresh tropical waters, resembling the gobies but lacking a ventral sucker
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- snollygoster — a clever, unscrupulous person.
- sociobiology — the study of social behavior in animals with emphasis on the role of behavior in survival and reproduction, engaging branches of ethology, population genetics, and ecology.
- solar energy — energy derived from the sun in the form of solar radiation.
- sooty grouse — blue grouse.
- sorting yard — sorting tracks.
- 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.
- 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.
- steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
- 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.
- stoichiology — the branch of biology concerned with the study of the cellular components of animal tissues
- storytelling — the telling or writing of stories.
- strongylosis — a disease, especially of horses, caused by an infestation by strongyles and characterized in serious cases by weakness and anemia.
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- supportingly — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- synecologist — a student of, or expert in, synecology
- technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
- thaumatogeny — the belief that the origin of life was the result of a miracle
- thaumatology — the study or description of miracles.
- 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.
- thiodiglycol — C4H10O2S, a yellowish viscous liquid used as a solvent