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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • self-managing — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
  • self-negating — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
  • self-pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
  • self-standing — An object or structure that is self-standing is not supported by other objects or structures.
  • 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
  • settling tank — a tank for holding liquid until particles suspended in it settle.
  • sexagesimally — into sixtieths
  • 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
  • shell program — A shell program is a basic computer program that provides a framework within which the user can develop the program to suit their own needs.
  • shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
  • shipping lane — sea lane.
  • show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
  • sign language — Also called sign. any of several visual-gestural systems of communication, especially employing manual gestures, as used among deaf people.
  • single combat — combat between two persons.
  • 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 status — a national agreement that aims to avoid unfairness in pay and reward arrangements for employees and to ensure harmonisation of conditions in comparable posts
  • single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
  • 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.
  • single-barrel — a gun having one barrel, especially a shotgun.
  • single-family — designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.
  • single-handed — accomplished or done by one person alone: a single-handed victory; single-handed sailing.
  • single-masted — (of a boat) having a single mast
  • 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
  • single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
  • singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
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