13-letter words containing g, a, r, e, s, l
- scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
- sedge warbler — a European songbird, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, of reed beds and swampy areas, having a streaked brownish plumage with white eye stripes: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers, etc)
- 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.
- selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
- self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- 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
- serial rights — the rights to reprint or publish a serial or as a serial
- serologically — as pertains to or with respect to serology; in a serological manner
- shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
- shell program — A shell program is a basic computer program that provides a framework within which the user can develop the program to suit their own needs.
- 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 thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
- single-barrel — a gun having one barrel, especially a shotgun.
- 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
- singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
- slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
- 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
- slip carriage — a railway car detached from a moving train as it passes through a station.
- 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.
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- spring a leak — to develop a leak
- spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
- spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- spurge laurel — a European thymelaeaceous evergreen shrub, Daphne laureola, with glossy leaves and small green flowers
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner
- squirrel cage — a cage containing a cylindrical framework that is rotated by a squirrel or other small animal running inside of it.
- stalagmometer — an instrument for determining the number of drops, or the weight of each drop, in a given volume of liquid.
- stalagmometry — measurement of drops of liquid using a staktometer
- star-spangled — spangled with stars.
- starring role — a main role; the main role
- starting line — marking at beginning of a race
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- stereological — of, relating to, stereology
- stereoregular — pertaining to stereochemical regularity or having repeating units in a sequential configuration
- sterling area — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
- straight-line — (of a machine) having components that are arranged in a row or that move in a straight line when in operation
- strategically — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
- sugar of lead — lead acetate.
- superdelegate — a party leader or elected public official chosen as an uncommitted delegate to a national political convention.