13-letter words containing g, n, e, i, s
- single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- single parent — mother or father without a partner
- single sculls — a race for sculls each rowed by one oarsman using a pair of oars.
- 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-barrel — a gun having one barrel, especially a shotgun.
- 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.
- single-family — designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.
- single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
- single-handed — accomplished or done by one person alone: a single-handed victory; single-handed sailing.
- single-masted — (of a boat) having a single mast
- single-minded — having or showing a single aim or purpose: a single-minded program.
- single-parent — of or noting a family in which a parent brings up a child or children alone, without a partner: a single-parent family; a single-parent household.
- single-seater — a vehicle that has only one seat
- single-storey — (of a building) having only one floor or level
- single-suiter — one-suiter.
- single-tongue — to play (any nonlegato passage) on a wind instrument by obstructing and uncovering the air passage through the lips with the tongue
- single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
- 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.
- sinking spell — a temporary decline, as in health or market values: Wall Street is over its sinking spell.
- sitting judge — a presiding judge; a judge in office
- skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- skiing resort — a place which provides accommodation and facilities for skiing such as skiing trails, slopes, etc, esp for people who go there to take skiing holidays
- skin magazine — a magazine containing pornographic images
- skipping rope — A skipping rope or skip rope is a piece of rope, usually with handles at each end. You exercise or play with it by turning it round and round and jumping over it.
- skipping-rope — Also, jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.
- 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 diet — a diet with the aim of losing weight
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
- 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.
- sovereigntist — a supporter of sovereignty association
- space heating — the heating of a limited area, as a room, by means of a heater (space heater) within the area.
- speaking part — a part in which the character speaks scripted dialogue
- speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.