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13-letter words containing a, r, s, g

  • storage organ — any swollen plant part in which food is stored, as fruit, root, or tuber.
  • store baggage — If a hotel stores baggage, it puts a guest's baggage in a storage room until it is needed by the guest.
  • store manager — sb who runs a shop
  • stork parking — spaces reserved in a parking lot for cars driven by pregnant women or new mothers.
  • storm warning — a showing of storm signals.
  • straight away — immediately
  • straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • 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.
  • straight-edge — advocating abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and sex and sometimes advocating vegetarianism.
  • straight-line — (of a machine) having components that are arranged in a row or that move in a straight line when in operation
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • straightforth — straight or directly forward
  • strange quark — a quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness −1; it is more massive than the up and down quarks.
  • stranger rape — sexual assault by an assailant upon a person he or she does not know.
  • strangulation — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
  • strategic fit — (in business) the degree to which the activities of different sections of a business or businesses working together complement one another to achieve competitive advantage and business success
  • strategically — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
  • stratigraphic — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
  • string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
  • stringer bead — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • strong safety — the defensive back assigned to cover the area across from the strong side of the opponent's offensive line and primarily responsible for defending against pass plays.
  • strong waters — an archaic name for alcoholic drink
  • student grant — a grant of money awarded to somebody to fund their studying at a university or college
  • sub-aggregate — formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined: the aggregate amount of indebtedness.
  • subastringent — slightly astringent.
  • subcategorize — to split into subcategories
  • subgeneration — a generation within another generation
  • subtriangular — almost triangular;not quite triangular
  • sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
  • sugar of lead — lead acetate.
  • sugar of milk — lactose.
  • sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
  • sunken garden — a formal garden set below the main level of the ground surrounding it.
  • superdelegate — a party leader or elected public official chosen as an uncommitted delegate to a national political convention.
  • supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
  • supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
  • superorganism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
  • superregional — involving many regions
  • surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
  • surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
  • swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
  • swedenborgian — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
  • swimming crab — any of numerous, chiefly marine crabs, especially of the family Portunidae, having the legs adapted for swimming.
  • symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
  • syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
  • tansy ragwort — a European composite plant, Senecio jacobaea, naturalized in North America, having numerous yellow flowers.
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • taylor's gold — a variety of pear from New Zealand
  • teratogenesis — the production or induction of malformations or monstrosities, especially of a developing embryo or fetus.
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