12-letter words containing e, s, l, i, n, g
- sliding seat — a rower's seat that rides on wheels in metal tracks fastened to the boat's frame, allowing the seat to slide back and forth, thereby tapping the rower's leg strength to maximize the stroke.
- slinger ring — a tubular ring around the hub of an aircraft propeller through which antifreeze solution is spread over the propeller blades by centrifugal force
- sloganeering — Sloganeering is the use of slogans by people such as politicians or advertising agencies.
- slubberingly — in a slubbering or slovenly manner
- slumberingly — in a slumbering manner
- smoke signal — If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out.
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- sniggeringly — with a snigger
- specialising — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
- spellbinding — to hold or bind by or as if by a spell; enchant; entrance; fascinate.
- spelling bee — a spelling competition won by the individual or team spelling the greatest number of words correctly; spelldown.
- spiegeleisen — a lustrous, crystalline pig iron containing a large amount of manganese, sometimes 15 percent or more, used in making steel.
- spot welding — fusing metal
- spring-clean — to subject (a place) to a spring-cleaning.
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- staggeringly — tending to stagger or overwhelm: a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.
- sterlingness — the state of being sterling or having the quality of sterling
- stockingless — not wearing or having stockings
- stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
- stool pigeon — a pigeon used as a decoy.
- storytelling — the telling or writing of stories.
- streamlining — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
- stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
- stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
- strongsville — a town in N Ohio.
- stud welding — the semiautomatic welding of a stud or similar piece of metal to a flat part, usually by means of an electric arc
- stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- sub-religion — a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
- succeedingly — being that which follows; subsequent; ensuing: laws to benefit succeeding generations.
- supercooling — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
- swine plague — hemorrhagic septicemia of hogs, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella suiseptica, characterized by an accompanying infection of pneumonia.
- synecologist — a student of, or expert in, synecology
- synergically — in a synergic manner
- technologies — the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
- technologist — a person who specializes in technology.
- teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
- tell against — If a feature or characteristic tells against someone, it spoils their chance of success when they are being considered for something, for example a job.
- tragicalness — the quality or state of being tragic
- unassignable — not able to be transferred
- undersealing — the process of applying a coating of underseal to a motor vehicle
- undesignedly — in an undesigned manner
- undigestible — indigestible.
- unlovingness — an unloving quality or character
- unpleasingly — in an unpleasing manner
- unsettlingly — in an unsettling or worrying manner
- unslumbering — not sleeping
- unswervingly — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
- viewing lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.