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13-letter words containing g, i, l, n, e

  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • scanning line — (in a cathode-ray or television tube) a single horizontal trace made by the electron beam in one traversal of the fluorescent screen. Compare frame (def 9).
  • sedimentology — the study of sedimentary rocks.
  • 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-assuming — taking too much for granted; presumptuous.
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-cleaning — an act or instance of making clean: Give the house a good cleaning.
  • self-defining — decisive; critically important: Taking a course in architecture was a defining turn in her life.
  • self-deifying — to make a god of; exalt to the rank of a deity; personify as a deity: to deify a beloved king.
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • self-effacing — the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.
  • self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
  • self-evolving — to develop gradually: to evolve a scheme.
  • self-exposing — to lay open to danger, attack, harm, etc.: to expose soldiers to gunfire; to expose one's character to attack.
  • self-ignition — the spontaneous combustion or ignition of something without any external spark or flame
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • self-limiting — limiting oneself or itself: a self-limiting authority.
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • self-managing — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
  • self-negating — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
  • self-pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
  • self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
  • 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-soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
  • self-standing — An object or structure that is self-standing is not supported by other objects or structures.
  • self-starting — starter (def 3).
  • self-steering — maintaining a course without constant human action
  • self-thinning — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
  • 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 point — a unique or advantageous feature that appeals to the prospective buyer of a service, product, etc.: A generous discount is the chief selling point of the book club.
  • selling price — cost at which sth is put up for sale
  • semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
  • serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
  • settling tank — a tank for holding liquid until particles suspended in it settle.
  • sewing circle — a group, especially of women, meeting regularly to sew.
  • sewing needle — Northern U.S. a dragonfly.
  • shed light on — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
  • shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
  • shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
  • shipping lane — sea lane.
  • shipping line — a business that operates ships, which it may or may not own
  • shivering owl — screech owl.
  • short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
  • side-slipping — travelling down a slope in a direction that is not in line with one's skis
  • sidesplitting — convulsively uproarious: sidesplitting laughter.
  • sign language — Also called sign. any of several visual-gestural systems of communication, especially employing manual gestures, as used among deaf people.
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