13-letter words containing a, n, t, i, c, g
- rock painting — a painting done on rock, usually by early people
- romanticising — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- running track — a piece of ground, usually oval-shaped, that is used for races involving athletes
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- sanctifyingly — in a sanctifying manner
- sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht
- 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).
- scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
- scintillating — animated; vivacious; effervescent: a scintillating personality.
- 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.
- self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
- shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
- shaving stick — a piece of shaving foam moulded into a slender shape and held in a slender container for ease of application to the face when removing hair with a razor
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- significantly — important; of consequence.
- signification — meaning; import; sense.
- significative — serving to signify.
- significatory — 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
- 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.
- spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
- sportscasting — the reporting of a sports event by radio or television broadcast.
- standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
- standing crop — the totality of living things in an ecosystem at a given time.
- stock raising — the breeding and raising of livestock.
- stocking mask — a nylon stocking used, especially by a criminal, to disguise the face.
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- synallagmatic — relating to a reciprocally binding contract
- table dancing — Table dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances in a sexy way close to a customer or group of customers.
- talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
- team teaching — a system whereby two or more teachers pool their skills, knowledge, etc, to teach combined classes
- technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
- telegenically — having physical qualities or characteristics that televise well; videogenic.
- ticket agency — an agency dealing in the sale of tickets, especially theater tickets.
- touch-in-goal — the area at each end of the field outside of a touch-in-goal line.
- tracing paper — a thin, transparent paper for making tracings.
- tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
- tracking shot — dolly shot.
- training camp — A training camp for soldiers or sports players is an organized period of training at a particular place.
- tramping club — an organization of people who walk for recreation, esp in the bush
- trotting race — a horse race using trotters.
- tungstic acid — a hydrate of tungsten trioxide, H 2 WO 4 ⋅H 2 O, used in the manufacture of tungsten-lamp filaments.
- turbocharging — the process or action of supplying an internal combustion engine or a motor vehicle with a turbocharger
- uncalculating — not calculating or scheming; guileless