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

  • postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • press gallery — a press section, especially in a legislative chamber.
  • pressed glass — molded glass that has been shaped or given its pattern, while molten, by the action of a plunger thrust into the mold.
  • primatologist — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
  • progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
  • prostaglandin — Biochemistry. any of a class of unsaturated fatty acids that are involved in the contraction of smooth muscle, the control of inflammation and body temperature, and many other physiological functions.
  • psychological — of or relating to psychology.
  • pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
  • quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
  • quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
  • raglan sleeve — a sleeve that begins at the neck and has a long, slanting seam line from the neck to the armhole, giving the garment a relatively undefined shoulder.
  • raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
  • rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
  • rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
  • rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
  • reading glass — a magnifying glass that people use to enlarge text to make it easier to read
  • regardless of — in spite of
  • regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
  • release agent — chemical lubricant
  • resting place — grave
  • rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
  • rhyming slang — a form of slang in which a rhyming word or phrase is substituted for the word intended, as Kate and Sidney for steak and kidney or khaki rocks for army socks.
  • riding stable — a place where horses are kept for people to ride
  • sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
  • sales manager — leader of a sales team
  • sales meeting — briefing of sales representatives
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • salpingostomy — the formation of an artificial opening into a Fallopian tube.
  • salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
  • sanctifyingly — in a sanctifying manner
  • saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
  • scanning line — (in a cathode-ray or television tube) a single horizontal trace made by the electron beam in one traversal of the fluorescent screen. Compare frame (def 9).
  • scarlet gilia — skyrocket.
  • scintillating — animated; vivacious; effervescent: a scintillating personality.
  • scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
  • scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
  • sea vegetable — an edible seaweed
  • sedge warbler — a European songbird, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, of reed beds and swampy areas, having a streaked brownish plumage with white eye stripes: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers, etc)
  • segmentalized — separated into parts, sections, elements, classes, etc.; compartmentalized: a segmentalized society.
  • segregational — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
  • selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • self-assuming — taking too much for granted; presumptuous.
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-cleaning — an act or instance of making clean: Give the house a good cleaning.
  • self-effacing — the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.
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