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13-letter words containing a, l, n, g

  • shilling mark — a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”.
  • shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
  • shipping lane — sea lane.
  • shopping mall — mall (def 1).
  • shot-blasting — the cleaning of metal, etc, by a stream of shot
  • sign language — Also called sign. any of several visual-gestural systems of communication, especially employing manual gestures, as used among deaf people.
  • signalization — to make notable or conspicuous.
  • significantly — important; of consequence.
  • silla kingdom — an ancient Korean state that unified Korea; flourished in the 7th–10th centuries a.d.
  • single combat — combat between two persons.
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single market — a market consisting of a number of nations, esp those of the European Union, in which goods, capital, and currencies can move freely across borders without tariffs or restrictions
  • single parent — mother or father without a partner
  • single status — a national agreement that aims to avoid unfairness in pay and reward arrangements for employees and to ensure harmonisation of conditions in comparable posts
  • single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
  • 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.
  • single-barrel — a gun having one barrel, especially a shotgun.
  • single-family — designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.
  • single-handed — accomplished or done by one person alone: a single-handed victory; single-handed sailing.
  • single-masted — (of a boat) having a single mast
  • 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
  • single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
  • singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
  • singular noun — A singular noun is a noun such as 'standstill' or 'vicinity' that does not have a plural form and always has a determiner such as 'a' or 'the' in front of it.
  • slave trading — trafficking in people
  • sleeping area — an area in a room or house where people can sleep
  • 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.
  • slip trailing — the act of decorating an object with a poured stream of slip.
  • slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • sloane ranger — a member of a trendy and acquisitive set of largely upper-middle-class young people of London, England.
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • small holding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
  • social gaming — the playing of online games on social media websites.
  • solan (goose) — gannet
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
  • sounding lead — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
  • sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
  • special agent — an investigator in a law enforcement agency.
  • speed dialing — to dial (a telephone number) using speed dial.
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna
  • spiral casing — a spiral passage for directing the water from a penstock around a water turbine and into the rotor.
  • spiral spring — a form of spring consisting of a wire coiled in a helix.
  • splanchnology — the visceral system
  • splitting adz — a heavy stone tool used by prehistoric peoples in northwestern North America and northeastern Asia.
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