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13-letter words containing e, g, l, s, t, o

  • self-begotten — a past participle of beget.
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • self-ignition — the spontaneous combustion or ignition of something without any external spark or flame
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • self-soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
  • selling point — a unique or advantageous feature that appeals to the prospective buyer of a service, product, etc.: A generous discount is the chief selling point of the book club.
  • shed light on — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
  • short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
  • show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
  • silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
  • single combat — combat between two persons.
  • single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single-action — (of a firearm) requiring the cocking of the hammer before firing each shot: a single-action revolver.
  • single-storey — (of a building) having only one floor or level
  • single-tongue — to play (any nonlegato passage) on a wind instrument by obstructing and uncovering the air passage through the lips with the tongue
  • skeletogenous — forming a skeleton, or parts of one
  • sleep through — If you sleep through something, it does not wake you up.
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
  • sovietologist — Kremlinology.
  • staff college — a training centre for executive military personnel
  • stalagmometer — an instrument for determining the number of drops, or the weight of each drop, in a given volume of liquid.
  • stalagmometry — measurement of drops of liquid using a staktometer
  • starring role — a main role; the main role
  • state college — a city in central Pennsylvania.
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • stereological — of, relating to, stereology
  • stereoregular — pertaining to stereochemical regularity or having repeating units in a sequential configuration
  • sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
  • stone boiling — a primitive method of boiling liquid with heated stones
  • stores ledger — a record kept of the amount, type, etc., of raw materials and supplies on hand, as in a manufacturing plant.
  • strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
  • subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • systematology — the science of systems or their formation.
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • 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 spotlight — the focus of attention
  • toggle switch — a switch in which a projecting knob or arm, moving through a small arc, causes the contacts to open or close an electric circuit suddenly, as commonly used in most homes.
  • ugly customer — a hostile or dangerous person.
  • uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
  • ustilagineous — belonging to the Ustilaginales, an order of fungi that cause plant disease
  • venereologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
  • vexillologist — the study of flags.
  • virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
  • volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
  • wellingtonias — Plural form of wellingtonia.
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