13-letter words containing c, g, a
- second-grader — a pupil who is in the second grade
- 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.
- serologically — as pertains to or with respect to serology; in a serological manner
- 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
- shaped charge — a warhead having a concave, hollow end and operating on the Munroe effect.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- 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
- shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- sign of peace — the liturgical practice of giving a sign of peace, union, or friendship, as a handshake or embrace, at some point in a Christian service, esp. in a Mass or Communion service
- significances — importance; consequence: the significance of the new treaty.
- 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
- skunk cabbage — a low, fetid, broad-leaved North American plant, Symplocarpus foetidus, of the arum family, having a brownish-purple and green mottled spathe surrounding a stout spadix, growing in moist ground.
- slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
- sliding scale — a variable scale, especially of industrial costs, as wages, that may be adapted to changes in demand.
- slip carriage — a railway car detached from a moving train as it passes through a station.
- social gaming — the playing of online games on social media websites.
- social gospel — a movement in America, chiefly in the early part of the 20th century, stressing the social teachings of Jesus and their applicability to public life.
- space biology — exobiology.
- 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.
- specimen page — a page regarded as typical of pages of its type, esp one produced by a typesetter or designer to show an example of the typesetting for a book
- spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- speech making — act of addressing the public formally
- speechreading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
- spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- spiral casing — a spiral passage for directing the water from a penstock around a water turbine and into the rotor.
- splanchnology — the visceral system
- sportscasting — the reporting of a sports event by radio or television broadcast.
- spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
- squirrel cage — a cage containing a cylindrical framework that is rotated by a squirrel or other small animal running inside of it.
- staff college — a training centre for executive military personnel
- stagecoachman — the driver or operator of a stagecoach
- 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.
- state college — a city in central Pennsylvania.
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.