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13-letter words containing g, r, o, s, i, n

  • righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
  • rising action — a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.
  • roasting jack — a rotating spit for roasting meat on
  • rocking horse — a toy horse, as of wood, mounted on rockers or springs, on which children may ride; hobbyhorse.
  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • rocking stone — any fairly large rock so situated on its base that slight forces can cause it to move or sway.
  • rogation days — Usually, rogations. Ecclesiastical. solemn supplication, especially as chanted during procession on the three days (Rogation Days) before Ascension Day.
  • rolling stock — the wheeled vehicles of a railroad, including locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars.
  • rolling stone — person: nomadic
  • romanticising — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
  • rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
  • rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
  • running costs — The running costs of a business are the amount of money that is regularly spent on things such as salaries, heating, lighting, and rent.
  • running story — a story continued in subsequent issues of a newspaper or magazine; serial.
  • saint gregory — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
  • savings ratio — the ratio of personal savings to disposable income, esp using the difference between national figures for disposable income and consumer spending as a measure of savings
  • scorchingness — the state or quality of being scorching
  • scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
  • second string — Sports. the squad of players available either individually or as a team to replace or relieve those who start a game.
  • 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-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • selling floor — floor (def 10).
  • serodiagnosis — a diagnosis involving tests on blood serum or other serous fluid of the body.
  • serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
  • serving spoon — utensil used to serve food
  • sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
  • shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
  • shipping room — a place in a business concern where goods are packed and shipped.
  • shivering owl — screech owl.
  • shooting iron — a firearm, especially a pistol or revolver.
  • shooting star — meteor (def 1b).
  • shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
  • shopping trip — visit to the shops
  • short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
  • significatory — serving to signify
  • 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 mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single-storey — (of a building) having only one floor or level
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • soul-stirring — arousing excitement and enthusiasm; uplifting
  • sound ranging — a method for determining the distance between a point and the position of a sound source by measuring the time lapse between the origin of the sound and its arrival at the point.
  • soundproofing — materials used to make something soundproof
  • sovereigntist — a supporter of sovereignty association
  • spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
  • sponge finger — sweet finger-shaped biscuit
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