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13-letter words containing g, r, i, p

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • sleeping area — an area in a room or house where people can sleep
  • slip carriage — a railway car detached from a moving train as it passes through a station.
  • 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).
  • soundproofing — materials used to make something soundproof
  • sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
  • speaking part — a part in which the character speaks scripted dialogue
  • speechreading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • speed reading — a method of reading faster than normal, esp by skimming
  • sperm washing — a technique that separates sperm from the seminal fluid, used especially for isolating active sperm for artificial insemination.
  • spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
  • spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
  • spinning reel — a fishing reel mounted on a spinning rod, having a stationary spool on the side of which is a revolving metal arm that catches the line and winds it onto the spool as a handle is turned, the metal arm being disengaged during casting so the line spirals freely off the spool, carried by the cast lure.
  • spinning ring — ring1 (def 20).
  • spiral casing — a spiral passage for directing the water from a penstock around a water turbine and into the rotor.
  • spiral galaxy — a galaxy having a spiral structure.
  • spiral spring — a form of spring consisting of a wire coiled in a helix.
  • splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
  • sponge finger — sweet finger-shaped biscuit
  • sporting lady — a prostitute.
  • sportscasting — the reporting of a sports event by radio or television broadcast.
  • sportswriting — the work of a sports writer
  • spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
  • sprightliness — animated or vivacious; lively.
  • spring a leak — to develop a leak
  • spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
  • spring binder — a loose-leaf binder in which a single, long, clamplike spring, forming the spine, holds the leaves.
  • spring greens — Young cabbages are sometimes referred to as spring greens.
  • spring peeper — a tree frog, Hyla crucifer, having an X -shaped mark on the back and voicing a shrill call commonly heard near ponds and swamps of eastern North America in the early spring.
  • spring squill — a European liliaceous plant Scilla verna, having small blue or purple flowers
  • spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
  • spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
  • springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • spurious wing — alula (def 1).
  • spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
  • stage whisper — a loud whisper on a stage, meant to be heard by the audience.
  • standing crop — the totality of living things in an ecosystem at a given time.
  • stargazey pie — a Cornish fish pie served with the head of the fish protruding through the crust
  • starting post — the upright pole marking the beginning of a racecourse
  • staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
  • stepparenting — parenting within a stepfamily
  • stork parking — spaces reserved in a parking lot for cars driven by pregnant women or new mothers.
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • stratigraphic — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
  • string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
  • string-puller — a person who uses his or her influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
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