14-letter words containing e, i, g, n, s
- spending money — money for small personal expenses.
- spending power — income available for spending
- spending spree — a brief period of extravagant spending
- spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
- spermiogenesis — the development of a spermatozoon from a spermatid.
- spindle-legged — (used with a plural verb) long, thin legs.
- spine-chilling — very frightening or horrifying.
- spine-tingling — A spine-tingling film or piece of music is enjoyable because it causes you to feel a strong emotion such as excitement or fear.
- spinning frame — a machine for drawing, twisting, and winding yarn.
- spinning jenny — an early spinning machine having more than one spindle, enabling a person to spin a number of yarns simultaneously.
- spinning wheel — a device formerly used for spinning wool, flax, etc., into yarn or thread, consisting essentially of a single spindle driven by a large wheel operated by hand or foot.
- spit and image — a person who bears a strong physical resemblance to another, esp to a relative
- spitting image — spit1 (def 13).
- splinter group — a small organization that becomes separated from or acts apart from an original larger group or a number of other small groups, with which it would normally be united, as because of disagreement.
- sponge pudding — a light steamed or baked pudding, spongy in texture, made with various flavourings or fruit
- sporangiophore — a structure bearing sporangia.
- sporangiospore — a spore that is produced within a sporangium.
- sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
- spread betting — Spread betting is a form of gambling that involves predicting a range of possible scores or results rather than one particular score or result.
- sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
- spring balance — a device in which an object to be weighed is attached to the end of a helical spring, the extension of which indicates the weight of the object on a calibrated scale
- spring chicken — a young chicken, especially a broiler or fryer.
- spring equinox — the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth and occurring about March 21 (vernal equinox or spring equinox) and September 22 (autumnal equinox)
- springing line — a horizontal line between the springs of an arch or dome.
- square-bashing — drill on a barrack square
- square-dancing — the activity of taking part in a square dance
- stage business — business (def 10).
- stage designer — someone who designs the physical appearance of the stage, using backdrops, props, etc
- staggering bob — a newborn calf.
- stalking horse — If you describe a person or thing as a stalking horse, you mean that it is being used to obtain a temporary advantage so that someone can get what they really want.
- stalking-horse — a horse, or a figure of a horse, behind which a hunter hides in stalking game.
- stalling angle — critical angle (def 2).
- standing order — Military. (formerly) a general order always in force in a command and establishing uniform procedures for it; standard operating procedure.
- standing water — still water that has stagnated
- stanovoi range — a mountain range in SE Russia; forms part of the watershed between rivers flowing to the Arctic and the Pacific. Highest peak: Mount Skalisty, 2482 m (8143 ft)
- starting price — gambling odds
- state religion — the official religion of a state as established by law.
- stay the night — If you stay the night in a place, you sleep there for one night.
- steam cracking — Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in which a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon is diluted with steam and then heated.
- steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
- steering wheel — a wheel used by a driver, pilot, or the like, to steer an automobile, ship, etc.
- steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
- stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
- stepping stone — stone: used to cross water
- sticking place — Also called sticking point. the place or point at which something stops and holds firm.
- sticky fingers — an inclination or tendency to steal or pilfer
- stinking cedar — an evergreen tree, Torreya taxifolia, of the yew family, native to Florida, having rank-smelling foliage and dark-green, egg-shaped fruit.
- stinking roger — any of various plants having an unpleasant odor.
- stirling cycle — a highly efficient thermodynamic cycle in which air or an inert gas is compressed and expanded
- stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets