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13-letter words containing g, e, l, a, s, t

  • place setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
  • place-setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
  • planetologist — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
  • plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
  • raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
  • regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
  • release agent — chemical lubricant
  • resting place — grave
  • riding stable — a place where horses are kept for people to ride
  • sales meeting — briefing of sales representatives
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
  • scarlet gilia — skyrocket.
  • scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
  • sea vegetable — an edible seaweed
  • 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-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • self-negating — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
  • 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.
  • serial rights — the rights to reprint or publish a serial or as a serial
  • settling tank — a tank for holding liquid until particles suspended in it settle.
  • show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
  • single combat — combat between two persons.
  • 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 status — a national agreement that aims to avoid unfairness in pay and reward arrangements for employees and to ensure harmonisation of conditions in comparable posts
  • single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
  • single-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work only in one direction. Compare double-acting (def 1).
  • single-action — (of a firearm) requiring the cocking of the hammer before firing each shot: a single-action revolver.
  • single-masted — (of a boat) having a single mast
  • 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
  • slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
  • spaghettilike — resembling spaghetti
  • special agent — an investigator in a law enforcement agency.
  • staff college — a training centre for executive military personnel
  • 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.
  • 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
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