13-letter words containing a, m, g, s
- sphagnum moss — Botany
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- staff meeting — company gathering of employees
- stage manager — a person responsible for the technical details of a theatrical production, assisting the director during rehearsal, supervising the lighting, costuming, setting, prompting, etc., and assuming full responsibility for the stage during a performance of a play.
- stagecoachman — the driver or operator of a stagecoach
- stalagmometer — an instrument for determining the number of drops, or the weight of each drop, in a given volume of liquid.
- stalagmometry — measurement of drops of liquid using a staktometer
- stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
- standing army — a permanently organized military force maintained by a nation.
- standing jump — a jump performed from a stationary position without a run-up
- standing room — space in which to stand, as in a theater, stadium, or the like.
- steam heating — a heating system utilizing steam circulated through radiators and pipes.
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- stigmatically — in a stigmatic, villainous, or infamous manner
- stocking mask — a nylon stocking used, especially by a criminal, to disguise the face.
- stomatologist — a person who works in stomatology
- stone massage — a form of massage using heated smooth stones
- stoppage time — In soccer and some other sports, stoppage time is the period of time that is added to the end of a game because play was stopped during the game as a result of, for example, injuries to players.
- store manager — sb who runs a shop
- storm warning — a showing of storm signals.
- straight time — the time or number of hours established as standard for a specific work period in a particular industry, usually computed on the basis of a workweek and fixed variously from 35 to 40 hours.
- subassemblage — a group of persons or things gathered or collected; an assembly; collection; aggregate.
- sugar of milk — lactose.
- superorganism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
- swamp cabbage — skunk cabbage.
- swimming bath — swimming pool.
- swimming crab — any of numerous, chiefly marine crabs, especially of the family Portunidae, having the legs adapted for swimming.
- swimming gala — a competitive event featuring swimming races
- symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
- synallagmatic — relating to a reciprocally binding contract
- syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
- systematology — the science of systems or their formation.
- televangelism — Christian preaching on TV
- thaumaturgist — a worker of wonders or miracles; magician.
- thermostating — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
- timothy grass — a coarse grass, Phleum pratense, having cylindrical spikes, used as fodder.
- trading stamp — a stamp with a certain value given as a premium by a retailer to a customer, specified quantities of these stamps being exchangeable for various articles.
- transmisogyny — discrimination or prejudice against transgender women.
- trash farming — cultivation by leaving stubble, etc, on the surface of the soil to serve as a mulch
- tsutsugamushi — any of various rickettsial disease, including scrub typhus
- tungsten lamp — an incandescent electric lamp in which the filament is made of tungsten.
- unambiguously — plainly, clearly
- unstigmatized — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- unstimulating — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- vaginal smear — a smear sample taken from vaginal mucous for cytological analysis
- vaginomycosis — a fungous infection of the vagina.
- vasco da gama — Vasco da [vas-koh duh;; Portuguese vahsh-koo duh] /ˈvæs koʊ də;; Portuguese ˈvɑʃ kʊ də/ (Show IPA), c1460–1524, Portuguese navigator: discovered the sea route from Portugal around the continent of Africa to India.
- vegetarianism — the beliefs or practices of a vegetarian.
- visiting team — sports team playing away from home ground