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13-letter words containing g, i, l, m

  • sexagesimally — into sixtieths
  • shilling mark — a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”.
  • shopping mall — mall (def 1).
  • sigmoid colon — Zoology. an S -shaped curve in a body part.
  • silla kingdom — an ancient Korean state that unified Korea; flourished in the 7th–10th centuries a.d.
  • single combat — combat between two persons.
  • 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-family — designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.
  • single-masted — (of a boat) having a single mast
  • single-minded — having or showing a single aim or purpose: a single-minded program.
  • slimming club — a group of people who meet regularly and are all trying to lose weight
  • slimming diet — a diet with the aim of losing weight
  • slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • small holding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
  • social gaming — the playing of online games on social media websites.
  • sphingomyelin — any of the class of phospholipids occurring chiefly in the brain and spinal cord, composed of phosphoric acid, choline, sphingosine, and a fatty acid.
  • spinning mule — mule1 (def 7).
  • 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.
  • stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
  • sterculia gum — karaya gum.
  • stigmatically — in a stigmatic, villainous, or infamous manner
  • stocking loom — a type of knitting machine
  • stomatologist — a person who works in stomatology
  • sugar of milk — lactose.
  • supplementing — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
  • swimming gala — a competitive event featuring swimming races
  • swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
  • swimming pool — a tank or large artificial basin, as of concrete, for filling with water for swimming.
  • synallagmatic — relating to a reciprocally binding contract
  • syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
  • telecommuting — working at home by using a computer terminal electronically linked to one's place of employment.
  • telegrammatic — a message or communication sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
  • telemarketing — selling or advertising by telephone.
  • televangelism — Christian preaching on TV
  • temporizingly — in a yielding manner
  • the limelight — a position of public attention or notice (esp in the phrase in the limelight)
  • tramping club — an organization of people who walk for recreation, esp in the bush
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • tumbling mill — A tumbling mill is a machine for reducing the particle size of a solid, with a drum which turns to lift and drop the feed mixed with a grinding medium.
  • tzom gedaliah — a Jewish fast day observed on the third day of the month of Tishri in memory of the treacherous murder of Gedaliah, Jewish governor of Judah appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia.
  • ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
  • unambiguously — plainly, clearly
  • unbeseemingly — in an unbeseeming or unbefitting manner
  • uncomplaining — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
  • underwhelming — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
  • ungrammatical — grammatically incorrect or awkward; not conforming to the rules or principles of grammar or accepted usage: an ungrammatical sentence.
  • unmurmuringly — without a murmur or complaint
  • unpromisingly — in a manner that is not showing any promise of favourable development or future success
  • unremittingly — not slackening or abating; incessant: unremitting noise; unremitting attention.
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