13-letter words containing e, n, s, a, g
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- set at naught — to have disregard or scorn for; disdain
- settling tank — a tank for holding liquid until particles suspended in it settle.
- seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
- sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- 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 horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
- shearing gang — a group of itinerant workers who contract to shear, class, and bale a farmer's wool clip
- shearing shed — a farm building equipped with power machinery for sheepshearing and equipment for baling wool
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- sheepshearing — an act or instance of shearing sheep.
- shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
- shipping lane — sea lane.
- siberian high — the prevailing high pressure system over Asia in winter.
- sight reading — the act or skill of performing unfamiliar written music, or of translating something written in a foreign language, readily on sight, without previous study
- sign language — Also called sign. any of several visual-gestural systems of communication, especially employing manual gestures, as used among deaf people.
- 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.
- significative — serving to signify.
- 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
- skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- skin magazine — a magazine containing pornographic images
- 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.
- slave trading — trafficking in people
- sleeping area — an area in a room or house where people can sleep
- 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.
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- sloane ranger — a member of a trendy and acquisitive set of largely upper-middle-class young people of London, England.
- slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
- solan (goose) — gannet
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.