13-letter words containing g, i, l, n
- slave trading — trafficking in people
- sleep hygiene — the habits conducive to getting the right amount and quality of sleep
- sleeping area — an area in a room or house where people can sleep
- sleeping pill — a pill or capsule containing a drug for inducing sleep.
- sleeping suit — an all-in-one outfit that babies and young children sleep in
- slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
- sliding scale — a variable scale, especially of industrial costs, as wages, that may be adapted to changes in demand.
- 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
- slip trailing — the act of decorating an object with a poured stream of slip.
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
- 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.
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- solid-looking — reassuringly substantial or stable in appearance: They're a very solid-looking, intelligent couple.
- solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
- soul-stirring — arousing excitement and enthusiasm; uplifting
- sounding lead — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
- sounding line — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
- sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
- special agent — an investigator in a law enforcement agency.
- speed dialing — to dial (a telephone number) using speed dial.
- speed walking — power walking.
- spelling book — an elementary textbook or manual to teach spelling
- spelling-book — a person who spells words.
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna
- 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).
- spinning reel — a fishing reel mounted on a spinning rod, having a stationary spool on the side of which is a revolving metal arm that catches the line and winds it onto the spool as a handle is turned, the metal arm being disengaged during casting so the line spirals freely off the spool, carried by the cast lure.
- spiral casing — a spiral passage for directing the water from a penstock around a water turbine and into the rotor.
- spiral spring — a form of spring consisting of a wire coiled in a helix.
- splitting adz — a heavy stone tool used by prehistoric peoples in northwestern North America and northeastern Asia.
- splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
- sporting lady — a prostitute.
- spot lighting — Spot lighting is lighting directed towards and used to draw attention to a product or display.
- sprightliness — animated or vivacious; lively.
- spring a leak — to develop a leak
- spring squill — a European liliaceous plant Scilla verna, having small blue or purple flowers
- spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
- spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner
- stained glass — glass that has been colored, enameled, painted, or stained, especially by having pigments baked onto its surface or by having various metallic oxides fused into it, as used in church windows, decorative lampshades, etc.
- stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
- starring role — a main role; the main role
- starting line — marking at beginning of a race
- steering lock — an anti-theft device
- 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.