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13-letter words containing g, a, i, n, s

  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • rogation days — Usually, rogations. Ecclesiastical. solemn supplication, especially as chanted during procession on the three days (Rogation Days) before Ascension Day.
  • romanticising — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
  • rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
  • running start — Sports. a start, as in the hop, step, and jump or the running broad jump, in which a contestant begins moving before reaching the starting or take-off point.
  • safety margin — something required to ensure safety
  • saint gregory — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
  • saint-gaudens — Augustus, 1848–1907, U.S. sculptor, born in Ireland.
  • sales meeting — briefing of sales representatives
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • salpingostomy — the formation of an artificial opening into a Fallopian tube.
  • sanctifyingly — in a sanctifying manner
  • sand painting — the ceremonial practice among Navaho and Pueblo Indians of creating symbolic designs on a flat surface with varicolored sand.
  • sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht
  • santo domingo — a republic in the West Indies, occupying the E part of the island of Hispaniola. 19,129 sq. mi. (49,545 sq. km). Capital: Santo Domingo.
  • saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
  • savings ratio — the ratio of personal savings to disposable income, esp using the difference between national figures for disposable income and consumer spending as a measure of savings
  • savings stamp — a stamp which can be bought (for example at a machine in a supermarket), saved, and then redeemed against the cost of goods later (for example at Christmas)
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • scan register — (electronics, testing)   A digital logic circuit which can act either as a flip-flop or as a serial shift register and which is used to form a scan path for testing. The most common design is a multiplexed flip-flop: The other common design is level-sensitive scan design (LSSD).
  • scanning disk — (in mechanical scanning) a disk with a line of holes spiraling in from its edge, rotated in front of a surface so as to expose a small segment as each hole passes before it for transmitting or reproducing a picture.
  • scanning line — (in a cathode-ray or television tube) a single horizontal trace made by the electron beam in one traversal of the fluorescent screen. Compare frame (def 9).
  • scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
  • scintillating — animated; vivacious; effervescent: a scintillating personality.
  • screaming tty — [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters" are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can be substantial.
  • seafaring man — a sailor
  • search engine — a computer program that searches documents, especially on the World Wide Web, for a specified word or words and provides a list of documents in which they are found.
  • segmentalized — separated into parts, sections, elements, classes, etc.; compartmentalized: a segmentalized society.
  • segregational — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
  • self-assuming — taking too much for granted; presumptuous.
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-cleaning — an act or instance of making clean: Give the house a good cleaning.
  • self-effacing — the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • self-managing — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
  • self-negating — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
  • self-pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
  • self-standing — An object or structure that is self-standing is not supported by other objects or structures.
  • self-starting — starter (def 3).
  • self-training — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
  • semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
  • sepia drawing — a drawing with a brownish tone, produced by first bleaching it (after fixing) and then immersing it for a short time in a solution of sodium sulphide or of alkaline thiourea
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • serodiagnosis — a diagnosis involving tests on blood serum or other serous fluid of the body.
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
  • settling tank — a tank for holding liquid until particles suspended in it settle.
  • sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
  • shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
  • shadow boxing — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.
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