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13-letter words containing a, p, l, i, n

  • slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
  • spastic colon — a chronic condition of recurring abdominal pain with constipation or diarrhoea or both
  • special agent — an investigator in a law enforcement agency.
  • special needs — learning difficulties
  • spectral line — a line in a spectrum due to the absorption or emission of light at a discrete frequency.
  • speech island — a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
  • speed dialing — to dial (a telephone number) using speed dial.
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna
  • spice islands — the Moluccas
  • spinal column — the series of vertebrae in a vertebrate animal forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; spine; backbone.
  • spindleshanks — spindlelegs.
  • spiral casing — a spiral passage for directing the water from a penstock around a water turbine and into the rotor.
  • spiral nebula — (formerly) a spiral galaxy.
  • spiral spring — a form of spring consisting of a wire coiled in a helix.
  • splenial bone — a small bone in the lower jaw of some animals, such as reptiles and birds
  • splitting adz — a heavy stone tool used by prehistoric peoples in northwestern North America and northeastern Asia.
  • sporting lady — a prostitute.
  • sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • spring a leak — to develop a leak
  • spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
  • spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
  • 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.
  • string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
  • subpopulation — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
  • subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
  • sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
  • supermilitant — highly militant
  • supernational — tending to involve, or extending authority over, more than one nation; international; supranational.
  • superrational — beyond the scope or range of reason; intuitional.
  • superregional — involving many regions
  • supplantation — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
  • suppositional — the act of supposing.
  • supranational — outside or beyond the authority of one national government, as a project or policy that is planned and controlled by a group of nations.
  • suprarational — not understandable by reason alone; beyond rational comprehension.
  • suprasensible — not perceptible by the senses
  • synophthalmia — cyclopia.
  • syphilization — the act of syphilizing
  • table-rapping — the sounds of knocking or tapping made without any apparent physical agency while a group of people sit round a table, and attributed by spiritualists to the spirit of a dead person using this as a means of communication with the living
  • talking point — a fact or feature that aids or supports one side, as in an argument or competition.
  • tapioca-plant — the cassava, Manihot esculenta.
  • tattie-peelin — (esp of speech) highfalutin, affected, or pretentious
  • technopolitan — of or relating to a place or society dominated by technology
  • telencephalic — the anterior section of the forebrain comprising the cerebrum and related structures.
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