13-letter words containing g, s, a
- subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- subgeneration — a generation within another generation
- subtriangular — almost triangular;not quite triangular
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
- sugar of lead — lead acetate.
- sugar of milk — lactose.
- sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
- sunken garden — a formal garden set below the main level of the ground surrounding it.
- sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
- superdelegate — a party leader or elected public official chosen as an uncommitted delegate to a national political convention.
- supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
- supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
- superorganism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- superregional — involving many regions
- surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
- surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
- swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
- swamp cabbage — skunk cabbage.
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- sweated goods — goods that are made by exploited labour
- swedenborgian — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
- sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
- swimming bath — swimming pool.
- swimming crab — any of numerous, chiefly marine crabs, especially of the family Portunidae, having the legs adapted for swimming.
- swimming gala — a competitive event featuring swimming races
- syllogistical — relating to a syllogism
- symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
- synallagmatic — relating to a reciprocally binding contract
- synthesis gas — any of several gaseous mixtures consisting essentially of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, used in the synthesis of chemical compounds, as ammonia and alcohols.
- syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
- systematology — the science of systems or their formation.
- table setting — a set of cutlery, glasses, napkin, etc. for one person, as used on a table
- tansy ragwort — a European composite plant, Senecio jacobaea, naturalized in North America, having numerous yellow flowers.
- taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
- taylor's gold — a variety of pear from New Zealand
- telediagnosis — the detection of a disease by evaluating data transmitted to a receiving station from instruments monitoring a distant patient, as someone in a spacecraft.
- televangelism — Christian preaching on TV
- televangelist — an evangelist who regularly conducts religious services on television.
- tenovaginitis — the inflammation of the sheath around a tendon
- teratogenesis — the production or induction of malformations or monstrosities, especially of a developing embryo or fetus.
- tergiversator — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- texas leaguer — a pop fly that falls safely between converging infielders and outfielders.
- texas rangers — a member of the Texas state police force or, especially formerly, of the mounted state police.
- thanatologist — a person who engages in the academic study of death and dying
- that's enough — You say 'that's enough' to tell someone, especially a child, to stop behaving in a silly, noisy, or unpleasant way.
- thaumaturgist — a worker of wonders or miracles; magician.
- the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
- the highlands — mountainous region occupying nearly all of the N half of Scotland
- thermostating — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.