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13-letter words containing g, r, i, s, l, e

  • riding stable — a place where horses are kept for people to ride
  • rolling stone — person: nomadic
  • sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • scarlet gilia — skyrocket.
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • 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
  • semireligious — having a somewhat religious character.
  • serial rights — the rights to reprint or publish a serial or as a serial
  • serologically — as pertains to or with respect to serology; in a serological manner
  • serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
  • sewing circle — a group, especially of women, meeting regularly to sew.
  • shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
  • shivering owl — screech owl.
  • short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
  • shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
  • 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.
  • 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 carriage — a railway car detached from a moving train as it passes through a station.
  • 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.
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