13-letter words containing g, e, t, r
- spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
- sprightliness — animated or vivacious; lively.
- spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
- stage manager — a person responsible for the technical details of a theatrical production, assisting the director during rehearsal, supervising the lighting, costuming, setting, prompting, etc., and assuming full responsibility for the stage during a performance of a play.
- stage whisper — a loud whisper on a stage, meant to be heard by the audience.
- staghorn fern — any of several epiphytic Old World ferns of the genus Platycerium, having broad, often antlerlike leaves and cultivated as a houseplant.
- 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.
- stargazey pie — a Cornish fish pie served with the head of the fish protruding through the crust
- starring role — a main role; the main role
- starting gate — any of various types of movable barriers for lining up and giving an equal start to the entries in a horse or dog race.
- starting line — marking at beginning of a race
- starting rate — (in Britain) a rate of income tax below the basic rate
- staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
- steering gear — the apparatus or mechanism for steering a ship, automobile, bicycle, airplane, etc.
- steering lock — an anti-theft device
- steganography — the practice of concealing messages in such a way that only the sender and the recipient know that there is a message
- stepparenting — parenting within a stepfamily
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- stereognostic — the ability to determine the shape and weight of an object by touching or lifting it.
- stereographer — a person who takes stereoscopic photographs.
- 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.
- sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
- steroidogenic — of or pertaining to steroidogenesis
- stinging tree — any of various Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Dendrocnide with rigid stinging hairs
- stirlingshire — Also called Stirlingshire [stur-ling-sheer, -sher] /ˈstɜr lɪŋˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in central Scotland.
- stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- storage organ — any swollen plant part in which food is stored, as fruit, root, or tuber.
- store baggage — If a hotel stores baggage, it puts a guest's baggage in a storage room until it is needed by the guest.
- store manager — sb who runs a shop
- stores ledger — a record kept of the amount, type, etc., of raw materials and supplies on hand, as in a manufacturing plant.
- straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- straight time — the time or number of hours established as standard for a specific work period in a particular industry, usually computed on the basis of a workweek and fixed variously from 35 to 40 hours.
- straight-edge — advocating abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and sex and sometimes advocating vegetarianism.
- straight-line — (of a machine) having components that are arranged in a row or that move in a straight line when in operation
- straighten up — stand straighter
- strange quark — a quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness −1; it is more massive than the up and down quarks.
- stranger rape — sexual assault by an assailant upon a person he or she does not know.
- strategic fit — (in business) the degree to which the activities of different sections of a business or businesses working together complement one another to achieve competitive advantage and business success
- strategically — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- strengthening — to make stronger; give strength to.
- string course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
- string theory — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- string-puller — a person who uses his or her influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
- stringentness — the quality or state of being stringent
- stringer bead — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.