11-letter words containing g, l, a, s, i
- salpingitis — inflammation of a salpinx.
- salsuginous — full of salt or able to grow in salty soil
- salting out — the addition of salt to a mixture to precipitate proteins, soaps, and other simple organic compounds.
- salting-out — Salting-out is the effect when adding a salt to a solvent containing an organic solute reduces the solubility of that solute.
- samuel ting — Samuel C(hao) C(hung) [chou choo ng] /tʃaʊ tʃʊŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1936, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1976.
- san gabriel — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- saprolegnia — a variety of fungus
- satin glass — an American art glassware having colored glass set into indentations in a thickness of opaque glass, the whole covered with clear glass and etched slightly with acid.
- scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- scamblingly — in a scambling, noisy, or intrusive manner
- scatterling — a person with no fixed home; a wanderer; a vagabond
- scrawlingly — in a scrawling manner
- screamingly — If you say that something is, for example, screamingly funny or screamingly boring, you mean that it is extremely funny or extremely boring.
- sealing wax — a resinous preparation, soft when heated, used for sealing letters, documents, etc.
- searchingly — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- searchlight — a device, usually consisting of a light and reflector, for throwing a beam of light in any direction.
- seigneurial — a lord, especially a feudal lord.
- seigniorial — of or relating to a seignior.
- selaginella — any club moss of the genus Selaginella, having stems covered in small pointed leaves and small spore-bearing cones: family Selaginellaceae
- self-acting — acting by itself; automatic.
- self-hating — harbouring feelings of self-hatred
- self-making — the act of a person or thing that makes: The making of a violin requires great skill.
- semasiology — semantics, especially the study of semantic change.
- septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
- serological — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
- sex linkage — an association between genes in sex chromosomes such that the characteristics determined by these genes appear more frequently in one sex than in the other.
- sex-linkage — an association between genes in sex chromosomes such that the characteristics determined by these genes appear more frequently in one sex than in the other.
- sexagesimal — pertaining to or based upon the number 60.
- shaving gel — product that softens hair growth for shaving
- shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium
- side glance — a look sideways at someone or something
- side-glance — a glance directed to the side; an oblique or sideways look: a side-glance of displeasure at her interrupter.
- sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
- sigillarian — resembling the fossilized, tree-like plants of the genus Sigillaria
- sigillation — the act of sealing
- sigmoidally — in the form of a sigmoid
- sign manual — a personal signature, especially that of a sovereign or official on a public document.
- signal book — a book containing the signals to be used for sending messages to other boats
- signal flag — a flag used for sending messages to other ships
- silver goal — (in certain competitions) a goal scored in a full half of extra time that is played if a match is drawn. This goal counts as the winner if it is the only goal scored in the full half or full period of extra time
- silver gray — a light brownish-gray.
- silver-gray — gray with a silvery luster
- singability — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
- single malt — a type of whisky that is made at a single distillery and from one type of malted grain
- single tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
- single-hand — to sail (a craft) without help from others.
- single-malt — (of whiskey, especially Scotch) made from unblended malt whiskey distilled at one distillery.
- singles bar — a bar or tavern catering to a clientele composed chiefly of single men and women, especially those seeking a lover or spouse.