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13-letter words containing g, n, e, i, s, t

  • screen rights — the rights to make a film version of a book
  • screenwriting — writing film scripts
  • second string — Sports. the squad of players available either individually or as a team to replace or relieve those who start a game.
  • section eight — a military discharge for physical or mental unfitness as determined by an Army Regulation in effect from 1922 to 1944.
  • 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-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
  • 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-negating — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
  • 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 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.
  • sempstressing — the profession of being a seamstress
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
  • settling tank — a tank for holding liquid until particles suspended in it settle.
  • seventy-eight — a cardinal number, 70 plus 8.
  • sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
  • sewing cotton — cotton thread used for sewing, embroidery, etc.
  • 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.
  • short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
  • side-stepping — to step to one side.
  • sidesplitting — convulsively uproarious: sidesplitting laughter.
  • sight reading — the act or skill of performing unfamiliar written music, or of translating something written in a foreign language, readily on sight, without previous study
  • significative — serving to signify.
  • silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
  • single combat — combat between two persons.
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single market — a market consisting of a number of nations, esp those of the European Union, in which goods, capital, and currencies can move freely across borders without tariffs or restrictions
  • single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single parent — mother or father without a partner
  • single status — a national agreement that aims to avoid unfairness in pay and reward arrangements for employees and to ensure harmonisation of conditions in comparable posts
  • single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
  • 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-masted — (of a boat) having a single mast
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