13-letter words containing d, a, g, n
- sounding lead — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
- 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.
- speed dialing — to dial (a telephone number) using speed dial.
- speed reading — a method of reading faster than normal, esp by skimming
- speed skating — ice skating as a form of racing, usually on an oval course and against other competitors or the clock.
- speed walking — power walking.
- splitting adz — a heavy stone tool used by prehistoric peoples in northwestern North America and northeastern Asia.
- sporting lady — a prostitute.
- spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
- springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner
- stained glass — glass that has been colored, enameled, painted, or stained, especially by having pigments baked onto its surface or by having various metallic oxides fused into it, as used in church windows, decorative lampshades, etc.
- standing army — a permanently organized military force maintained by a nation.
- 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.
- standing joke — If something is a standing joke among a group of people, they often make jokes about it.
- standing jump — a jump performed from a stationary position without a run-up
- standing room — space in which to stand, as in a theater, stadium, or the like.
- standing wave — a wave in a medium in which each point on the axis of the wave has an associated constant amplitude ranging from zero at the nodes to a maximum at the antinodes.
- star-spangled — spangled with stars.
- starting grid — area marked as start of a race
- steganopodous — belonging to the Stegandopodes or having all four toes webbed together
- 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.
- student grant — a grant of money awarded to somebody to fund their studying at a university or college
- subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- sunken garden — a formal garden set below the main level of the ground surrounding it.
- 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.
- table dancing — Table dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances in a sexy way close to a customer or group of customers.
- tanjungpandan — a town on NW Billiton, in central Indonesia.
- telediagnosis — the detection of a disease by evaluating data transmitted to a receiving station from instruments monitoring a distant patient, as someone in a spacecraft.
- the highlands — mountainous region occupying nearly all of the N half of Scotland
- third reading — the final step in the consideration of a legislative bill before it is put to a vote.
- thyroid gland — a two-lobed endocrine gland, located at the base of the neck that secretes two hormones that regulate the rates of metabolism, growth, and development.
- tintagel head — a cape in SW England, on the W coast of Cornwall.
- trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
- trading stamp — a stamp with a certain value given as a premium by a retailer to a customer, specified quantities of these stamps being exchangeable for various articles.
- trailing edge — the rear edge of a propeller blade or airfoil.
- transgendered — transgender (defs 1, 2).
- tungstic acid — a hydrate of tungsten trioxide, H 2 WO 4 ⋅H 2 O, used in the manufacture of tungsten-lamp filaments.
- ujung pandang — a seaport on SW Sulawesi (Celebes), in central Indonesia.
- un-negotiated — to deal or bargain with another or others, as in the preparation of a treaty or contract or in preliminaries to a business deal.
- uncamouflaged — the act, means, or result of obscuring things to deceive an enemy, as by painting or screening objects so that they are lost to view in the background, or by making up objects that from a distance have the appearance of fortifications, guns, roads, etc.: Was camouflage used extensively on fighter aircraft during World War I?
- uncategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- under-manager — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
- under-meaning — what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three meanings of a word.
- under-packing — the act or work of a person or thing that packs.
- undercarriage — the supporting framework underneath a vehicle, as an automobile or trailer; the structure to which the wheels, tracks, or the like are attached or fitted.
- underdrainage — drainage of agricultural lands and removal of excess water and of alkali by drains buried beneath the surface.
- undergraduate — a student in a university or college who has not received a first, especially a bachelor's, degree.
- underpainting — the first coat of paint, especially the initial painting on a canvas in which the major areas, tones, colors, and forms are indicated in mass.