13-letter words containing a, c, i, n, g, e
- precipitating — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- preganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
- prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
- prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
- quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
- racing driver — someone who drives a racing car in motor car races
- racing pigeon — a pigeon bred and trained for the sport of pigeon racing
- raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
- reacquainting — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
- reading chair — a chair of the 18th century having an adjustable reading stand attached to the back and a crest rail extending forward on both sides to form armrests, designed to be sat on facing the back.
- reciprocating — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- recognitional — an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.
- recording van — a van containing sound and image recording equipment, used as a mobile recording studio
- regime change — the transition from one political regime to another, esp through concerted political or military action
- regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
- relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- resting place — grave
- revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- riding jacket — coat worn for horse-riding
- rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
- rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
- scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
- scan register — (electronics, testing) A digital logic circuit which can act either as a flip-flop or as a serial shift register and which is used to form a scan path for testing. The most common design is a multiplexed flip-flop: The other common design is level-sensitive scan design (LSSD).
- scanning line — (in a cathode-ray or television tube) a single horizontal trace made by the electron beam in one traversal of the fluorescent screen. Compare frame (def 9).
- screaming tty — [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters" are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can be substantial.
- search engine — a computer program that searches documents, especially on the World Wide Web, for a specified word or words and provides a list of documents in which they are found.
- self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
- self-cleaning — an act or instance of making clean: Give the house a good cleaning.
- self-effacing — the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
- sign of peace — the liturgical practice of giving a sign of peace, union, or friendship, as a handshake or embrace, at some point in a Christian service, esp. in a Mass or Communion service
- significances — importance; consequence: the significance of the new treaty.
- significative — serving to signify.
- single combat — combat between two persons.
- single-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work only in one direction. Compare double-acting (def 1).
- single-action — (of a firearm) requiring the cocking of the hammer before firing each shot: a single-action revolver.
- singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
- slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
- sliding scale — a variable scale, especially of industrial costs, as wages, that may be adapted to changes in demand.
- space heating — the heating of a limited area, as a room, by means of a heater (space heater) within the area.
- special agent — an investigator in a law enforcement agency.
- specimen page — a page regarded as typical of pages of its type, esp one produced by a typesetter or designer to show an example of the typesetting for a book
- speech making — act of addressing the public formally
- speechreading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.