13-letter words containing a, r, g, i, l
- self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- self-starting — starter (def 3).
- self-training — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
- semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
- serial rights — the rights to reprint or publish a serial or as a serial
- serologically — as pertains to or with respect to serology; in a serological manner
- shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
- 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.”.
- 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 thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
- single-barrel — a gun having one barrel, especially a shotgun.
- 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
- 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
- slip carriage — a railway car detached from a moving train as it passes through a station.
- 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).
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
- spiral casing — a spiral passage for directing the water from a penstock around a water turbine and into the rotor.
- spiral galaxy — a galaxy having a spiral structure.
- spiral spring — a form of spring consisting of a wire coiled in a helix.
- sporting lady — a prostitute.
- 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.
- 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.
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner
- squirrel cage — a cage containing a cylindrical framework that is rotated by a squirrel or other small animal running inside of it.
- 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
- sterling area — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
- 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.
- string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
- subtriangular — almost triangular;not quite triangular
- sugar of milk — lactose.
- supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
- superregional — involving many regions
- surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
- syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.