12-letter words containing g, i, n, l
- selling race — a claiming race at the end of which the winning horse is offered for sale.
- selling rate — the rate at which a bank is willing to sell foreign currency
- semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
- servant girl — a girl or woman employed as a servant who performs household duties
- setting rule — a metal strip used in the hand-setting of type in a composing stick to separate the line being set from the previous one
- sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- shepherdling — a young or little shepherd
- shillingless — not possessing a shilling
- shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
- shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
- signal corps — a branch of the army responsible for military communications, meteorological studies, and related work.
- signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
- silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- silicon glen — a collective term for the industries in Scotland associated with information technology, esp those concentrated in the central conurbation between Glasgow and Edinburgh
- simon legree — Simon, Simon Legree.
- singableness — the quality of being singable
- single blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which the researchers but not the subjects know which subjects are receiving the active medication or treatment and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias, as the placebo effect, from the test results.
- single cream — dairy product: thin or light cream
- single entry — an item noted only once.
- single modal — modal (def 3).
- single rhyme — a rhyme of monosyllables, as in heart, part.
- single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
- single-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which the researchers but not the subjects know which subjects are receiving the active medication or treatment and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias, as the placebo effect, from the test results.
- single-cross — a cross between two inbred lines.
- single-digit — of or denoting a percentage smaller than ten, especially with reference to rates below that level: single-digit rates of inflation.
- single-ended — (of a boiler) fired from one end only.
- single-issue — pertaining or devoted to one public issue only, especially a political one: single-issue voters.
- single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
- single-payer — noting or relating to a healthcare or health insurance system in which the government or a publicly owned and regulated agency pays all medical costs from a single fund.
- single-phase — noting or pertaining to a circuit having an alternating current with one phase or with phases differing by 180°.
- single-space — to type (copy) on each line space.
- single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- sitting bull — 1834–90, American Indian warrior: leader of the Hunkpapa; victor at Little Bighorn, 1876.
- skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
- skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
- slab dashing — the act or process of covering an exterior wall with roughcast.
- slam dancing — the act of hurling oneself repeatedly into or through a crowd at a rock-music concert
- slant height — (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base.
- slap dashing — slab dashing.
- sleeping bag — a warmly lined or padded body-length bag, usually waterproof and with a closure, in which one or two persons can sleep, especially outdoors, as when camping.
- sleeping car — a railroad car fitted with berths, compartments, bedrooms, or drawing rooms for passengers to sleep in.
- sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
- sliding door — door which opens on a runner
- sliding rule — (formerly) a slide rule.
- sliding seat — a rower's seat that rides on wheels in metal tracks fastened to the boat's frame, allowing the seat to slide back and forth, thereby tapping the rower's leg strength to maximize the stroke.
- slimming aid — food or food supplements that can help you lose weight
- slinger ring — a tubular ring around the hub of an aircraft propeller through which antifreeze solution is spread over the propeller blades by centrifugal force
- slip casting — a pottery-making process in which partially liquefied clay is poured into a plaster mold.