13-letter words containing g, e, n, r
- self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
- self-governed — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
- self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- self-renewing — of or relating to the act of renewing oneself or itself
- self-resigned — submissive or acquiescent.
- self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
- self-starting — starter (def 3).
- self-steering — maintaining a course without constant human action
- self-strength — the quality or state of being strong; bodily or muscular power; vigor.
- self-training — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
- selling floor — floor (def 10).
- selling price — cost at which sth is put up for sale
- semievergreen — retaining green, unwithered leaves for part of the winter or through comparatively mild winters.
- semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
- sempstressing — the profession of being a seamstress
- 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.
- serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- serving spoon — utensil used to serve food
- seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
- sewing circle — a group, especially of women, meeting regularly to sew.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
- shearing gang — a group of itinerant workers who contract to shear, class, and bale a farmer's wool clip
- shearing shed — a farm building equipped with power machinery for sheepshearing and equipment for baling wool
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- sheepshearing — an act or instance of shearing sheep.
- shepherd king — any of the Hyksos kings.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
- siberian high — the prevailing high pressure system over Asia in winter.
- 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
- sigmund freud — Anna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
- signed number — Mathematics. a number preceded by a plus sign (+) to indicate a positive quantity or by a minus sign (−) to indicate a negative quantity.
- silver lining — a sign of hope in an unfortunate or gloomy situation; a bright prospect: Every cloud has a silver lining.
- silver spring — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
- 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 mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- 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-decker — A single-decker or a single-decker bus is a bus with only one deck.
- single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
- 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.