13-letter words containing g, r, i, s, k, n
- shark finning — the practice of catching sharks, removing their fins (which are commercially valuable) and throwing the rest of the shark back into the sea (often while it is still alive, but doomed to drown because it cannot swim without its fins)
- shepherd king — any of the Hyksos kings.
- 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.”.
- 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-decker — A single-decker or a single-decker bus is a bus with only one deck.
- singlesticker — a vessel, especially a sloop or cutter, having one mast.
- 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 grafting — the transplanting of healthy skin from the patient's or another's body to a wound or burn, to form new skin.
- 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.
- sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
- speaking part — a part in which the character speaks scripted dialogue
- spring a leak — to develop a leak
- steering lock — an anti-theft device
- stinking iris — an iris plant, Iris foetidissima, of W Europe and N Africa, having purplish flowers and a strong unpleasant smell when bruised
- stock raising — the breeding and raising of livestock.
- stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- stork parking — spaces reserved in a parking lot for cars driven by pregnant women or new mothers.
- string bikini — a skimpy bikini having often a triangular covering part held in place by narrow, string-like ties
- toasting fork — a long-handled fork used for cooking or toasting frankfurters, marshmallows, bread, etc., usually over an open fire.
- tracking shot — dolly shot.
- trash-talking — disparaging or boastful language used especially to demoralize or intimidate opponents: trash-talking in the locker room.
- understocking — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
- unshrinkingly — in an unshrinking manner
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- water-soaking — to soak or saturate with water.
- working asset — invested capital that is comparatively liquid.
- working class — those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
- working stiff — A working stiff is a person who has an ordinary job that is not well-paid.
- workingperson — a workingman or workingwoman.
- world-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.