13-letter words containing g, l, c
- scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
- screen legend — a very famous and much admired film actor
- self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
- self-cleaning — an act or instance of making clean: Give the house a good cleaning.
- self-effacing — the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.
- self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- selling price — cost at which sth is put up for sale
- serologically — as pertains to or with respect to serology; in a serological manner
- sewing circle — a group, especially of women, meeting regularly to sew.
- shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
- sigmoid colon — Zoology. an S -shaped curve in a body part.
- significantly — important; of consequence.
- silk stocking — a lady's stocking made from a very fine material such as silk or nylon
- silk-stocking — rich or luxurious in dress.
- single combat — combat between two persons.
- single sculls — a race for sculls each rowed by one oarsman using a pair of oars.
- single ticket — a one-way ticket.
- single wicket — a rare form of cricket in which only one wicket is used.
- single-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work only in one direction. Compare double-acting (def 1).
- single-action — (of a firearm) requiring the cocking of the hammer before firing each shot: a single-action revolver.
- single-celled — having or containing a single cell
- single-decker — A single-decker or a single-decker bus is a bus with only one deck.
- singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
- singlesticker — a vessel, especially a sloop or cutter, having one mast.
- 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
- slip carriage — a railway car detached from a moving train as it passes through a station.
- social gaming — the playing of online games on social media websites.
- social gospel — a movement in America, chiefly in the early part of the 20th century, stressing the social teachings of Jesus and their applicability to public life.
- sociologistic — making reference only to the concepts of sociology, especially emphasizing social factors to the exclusion of others.
- space biology — exobiology.
- special agent — an investigator in a law enforcement agency.
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- spiral casing — a spiral passage for directing the water from a penstock around a water turbine and into the rotor.
- splanchnology — the visceral system
- squirrel cage — a cage containing a cylindrical framework that is rotated by a squirrel or other small animal running inside of it.
- staff college — a training centre for executive military personnel
- state college — a city in central Pennsylvania.
- steering lock — an anti-theft device
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- stereological — of, relating to, stereology
- sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
- stigmatically — in a stigmatic, villainous, or infamous manner
- stinging-cell — a nematocyst.
- stocking loom — a type of knitting machine
- strategically — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
- sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.