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13-letter words containing a, l, i, t, r

  • single parent — mother or father without a partner
  • single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
  • single-parent — of or noting a family in which a parent brings up a child or children alone, without a partner: a single-parent family; a single-parent household.
  • single-seater — a vehicle that has only one seat
  • singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
  • sinistrocular — favoring the left eye, rather than the right, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to dextrocular).
  • sinterability — the capacity to be sintered
  • sirloin steak — cut of beef
  • sister-in-law — the sister of one's husband or wife.
  • slave trading — trafficking in people
  • slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
  • slip trailing — the act of decorating an object with a poured stream of slip.
  • slipper satin — a fine satin fabric with a mat finish
  • slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • social credit — the doctrine that under capitalism there is an inadequate distribution of purchasing power, for which the remedy lies in governmental control of retail prices and the distribution of national dividends to consumers.
  • social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
  • sociocultural — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and cultural elements.
  • solar chariot — (in ancient Egypt) a chariot placed in the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
  • solitary wasp — any of numerous wasps, as the sand wasps or mud wasps, that do not live in a community.
  • solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
  • spectral line — a line in a spectrum due to the absorption or emission of light at a discrete frequency.
  • splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • spoiler party — a third political party formed to draw votes away from one of the two major parties, thus spoiling its chance of winning an election.
  • sporting lady — a prostitute.
  • sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • spreadability — capable of being spread; easily spread: a soft, spreadable cheese.
  • stader splint — a splint consisting of an adjustable metal rod with a steel pin at either end for insertion in the bone above and below a fracture.
  • standard lisp — A subset of Lisp 1.5 developed by A. Hearn primarily for implementing REDUCE. It was replaced by Portable Sandard LISP.
  • starring role — a main role; the main role
  • starting line — marking at beginning of a race
  • sterculia gum — karaya gum.
  • stereological — of, relating to, stereology
  • stereotypical — 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.
  • sterilization — the act of sterilizing.
  • sterling area — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
  • still trailer — any dog that follows the trail of its quarry silently.
  • storax family — the plant family Styracaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, clusters of bell-shaped white flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the silver bell, snowbell, and storax.
  • storm trysail — a small fore-and-aft sail, triangular or square, set on the mainmast of a sailing vessel in foul weather to help keep her head to the wind
  • straight-line — (of a machine) having components that are arranged in a row or that move in a straight line when in operation
  • strangulation — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
  • strategically — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
  • stratum title — a system of registered ownership of space in multistorey buildings, to be equivalent to the ownership of the land of a single-storey building
  • string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
  • striped maple — a maple, Acer pensylvanicum, of northeastern North America, having white-striped bark.
  • strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • structuralism — any theory that embodies structural principles.
  • structuralist — any theory that embodies structural principles.
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