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13-letter words containing g, r, i, l, n

  • rumelgumption — commonsense
  • rumlegumption — commonsense
  • running belay — the clipping of the rope through a karabiner attached to a sling, piton, nut, etc, secured to the mountain: used by a leading climber of a team to reduce the length of a possible fall
  • running light — any of various lights required to be displayed by a vessel or aircraft operating between sunset and sunrise.
  • running title — Printing. running head.
  • running total — a running total is a total which changes because numbers keep being added to it as something progresses
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • 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-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • self-renewing — of or relating to the act of renewing oneself or itself
  • self-resigned — submissive or acquiescent.
  • self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
  • self-starting — starter (def 3).
  • self-steering — maintaining a course without constant human action
  • self-training — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
  • selling floor — floor (def 10).
  • selling price — cost at which sth is put up for sale
  • semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
  • serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
  • sewing circle — a group, especially of women, meeting regularly to sew.
  • shilling mark — a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”.
  • shivering owl — screech owl.
  • short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
  • silver lining — a sign of hope in an unfortunate or gloomy situation; a bright prospect: Every cloud has a silver lining.
  • silver spring — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
  • 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 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 thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
  • single-barrel — a gun having one barrel, especially a shotgun.
  • single-decker — A single-decker or a single-decker bus is a bus with only one deck.
  • single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • singular noun — A singular noun is a noun such as 'standstill' or 'vicinity' that does not have a plural form and always has a determiner such as 'a' or 'the' in front of it.
  • slave trading — trafficking in people
  • sleeping area — an area in a room or house where people can sleep
  • slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
  • slip trailing — the act of decorating an object with a poured stream of slip.
  • slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • soul-stirring — arousing excitement and enthusiasm; uplifting
  • sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
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