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13-letter words containing g, a, d, e

  • sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • shearing shed — a farm building equipped with power machinery for sheepshearing and equipment for baling wool
  • 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
  • single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
  • 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-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
  • 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.
  • slave trading — trafficking in people
  • 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.
  • solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
  • sounding lead — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
  • speechreading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • speed dialing — to dial (a telephone number) using speed dial.
  • speed reading — a method of reading faster than normal, esp by skimming
  • speed skating — ice skating as a form of racing, usually on an oval course and against other competitors or the clock.
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
  • springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • squanderingly — in a squandering manner
  • square-rigged — having square sails as the principal sails.
  • stained glass — glass that has been colored, enameled, painted, or stained, especially by having pigments baked onto its surface or by having various metallic oxides fused into it, as used in church windows, decorative lampshades, etc.
  • standing joke — If something is a standing joke among a group of people, they often make jokes about it.
  • standing wave — a wave in a medium in which each point on the axis of the wave has an associated constant amplitude ranging from zero at the nodes to a maximum at the antinodes.
  • star-spangled — spangled with stars.
  • steganopodous — belonging to the Stegandopodes or having all four toes webbed together
  • straight-edge — advocating abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and sex and sometimes advocating vegetarianism.
  • stringer bead — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • student grant — a grant of money awarded to somebody to fund their studying at a university or college
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • sugar of lead — lead acetate.
  • sunken garden — a formal garden set below the main level of the ground surrounding it.
  • superdelegate — a party leader or elected public official chosen as an uncommitted delegate to a national political convention.
  • sweated goods — goods that are made by exploited labour
  • swedenborgian — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • table dancing — Table dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances in a sexy way close to a customer or group of customers.
  • 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 gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
  • the high road — the principal road from one place to another
  • the highlands — mountainous region occupying nearly all of the N half of Scotland
  • the third age — old age, esp when viewed as an opportunity for travel, further education, etc
  • the-godfather — a novel (1969) by Mario Puzo.
  • third reading — the final step in the consideration of a legislative bill before it is put to a vote.
  • thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
  • thread blight — a fungal disease of woody plants, characterized by thick, threadlike strands of mycelium on the undersides of the leaves and branches.
  • tidal barrage — a barrier that traps water at high tide, creating a tidal basin
  • tintagel head — a cape in SW England, on the W coast of Cornwall.
  • trade embargo — a government order imposing a trade barrier
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