12-letter words containing e, s, l, i, n, g
- self-pitying — Someone who is self-pitying is full of self-pity.
- self-playing — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- self-priming — the powder or other material used to ignite a charge.
- self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- self-raising — a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
- self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
- self-sealing — capable of sealing itself automatically or without the application of adhesive, glue, or moisture: a self-sealing automobile tire; self-sealing envelopes.
- self-seeking — the seeking of one's own interest or selfish ends.
- self-serving — preoccupied with one's own interests, often disregarding the truth or the interests, well-being, etc., of others.
- self-tanning — cosmetic substance applied to the skin to simulate a suntan
- self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet
- self-winding — kept wound or wound periodically by a mechanism, as an electric motor or a system of weighted levers, so that winding by hand is not necessary.
- selling race — a claiming race at the end of which the winning horse is offered for sale.
- selling rate — the rate at which a bank is willing to sell foreign currency
- semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
- servant girl — a girl or woman employed as a servant who performs household duties
- setting rule — a metal strip used in the hand-setting of type in a composing stick to separate the line being set from the previous one
- sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- shepherdling — a young or little shepherd
- shillingless — not possessing a shilling
- shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
- signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
- silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- silicon glen — a collective term for the industries in Scotland associated with information technology, esp those concentrated in the central conurbation between Glasgow and Edinburgh
- simon legree — Simon, Simon Legree.
- singableness — the quality of being singable
- single blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which the researchers but not the subjects know which subjects are receiving the active medication or treatment and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias, as the placebo effect, from the test results.
- single cream — dairy product: thin or light cream
- single entry — an item noted only once.
- single modal — modal (def 3).
- single rhyme — a rhyme of monosyllables, as in heart, part.
- single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
- single-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which the researchers but not the subjects know which subjects are receiving the active medication or treatment and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias, as the placebo effect, from the test results.
- single-cross — a cross between two inbred lines.
- single-digit — of or denoting a percentage smaller than ten, especially with reference to rates below that level: single-digit rates of inflation.
- single-ended — (of a boiler) fired from one end only.
- single-issue — pertaining or devoted to one public issue only, especially a political one: single-issue voters.
- single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
- single-payer — noting or relating to a healthcare or health insurance system in which the government or a publicly owned and regulated agency pays all medical costs from a single fund.
- single-phase — noting or pertaining to a circuit having an alternating current with one phase or with phases differing by 180°.
- single-space — to type (copy) on each line space.
- single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
- skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
- slant height — (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base.
- sleeping bag — a warmly lined or padded body-length bag, usually waterproof and with a closure, in which one or two persons can sleep, especially outdoors, as when camping.
- sleeping car — a railroad car fitted with berths, compartments, bedrooms, or drawing rooms for passengers to sleep in.
- sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
- sliding rule — (formerly) a slide rule.