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13-letter words containing g, e, t, r

  • 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.
  • screen rights — the rights to make a film version of a book
  • screenwriting — writing film scripts
  • second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
  • second string — Sports. the squad of players available either individually or as a team to replace or relieve those who start a game.
  • 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-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.
  • semiwater gas — a mixed gas formed by passing steam and air over a carbon source
  • sempstressing — the profession of being a seamstress
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • serial rights — the rights to reprint or publish a serial or as a serial
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
  • seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
  • sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
  • short-sighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
  • 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
  • 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-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
  • single-storey — (of a building) having only one floor or level
  • single-suiter — one-suiter.
  • singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
  • singlesticker — a vessel, especially a sloop or cutter, having one mast.
  • 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.
  • skiing resort — a place which provides accommodation and facilities for skiing such as skiing trails, slopes, etc, esp for people who go there to take skiing holidays
  • slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
  • slave trading — trafficking in people
  • sleep through — If you sleep through something, it does not wake you up.
  • 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.
  • south georgia — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
  • sovereigntist — a supporter of sovereignty association
  • speaking part — a part in which the character speaks scripted dialogue
  • spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
  • spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
  • splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
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