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13-letter words containing g, u, i

  • running title — Printing. running head.
  • running total — a running total is a total which changes because numbers keep being added to it as something progresses
  • running track — a piece of ground, usually oval-shaped, that is used for races involving athletes
  • saint-gaudens — Augustus, 1848–1907, U.S. sculptor, born in Ireland.
  • sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
  • sargassumfish — an olive-brown and black frogfish, Histrio histrio, inhabiting tropical Atlantic and western Pacific seas among floating sargassum weed.
  • saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
  • 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.
  • school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
  • scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
  • scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
  • self-assuming — taking too much for granted; presumptuous.
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • semireligious — having a somewhat religious character.
  • serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
  • 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
  • shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
  • shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
  • shih huang ti — 259–210 b.c, Chinese emperor c247–210 b.c. initiated the building of the Great Wall of China.
  • shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
  • shunt winding — the winding of an electric motor or generator in such a way that the field and armature circuits are connected in parallel
  • shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
  • sigmund freud — Anna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
  • sign language — Also called sign. any of several visual-gestural systems of communication, especially employing manual gestures, as used among deaf people.
  • signed number — Mathematics. a number preceded by a plus sign (+) to indicate a positive quantity or by a minus sign (−) to indicate a negative quantity.
  • 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 sculls — a race for sculls each rowed by one oarsman using a pair of oars.
  • single status — a national agreement that aims to avoid unfairness in pay and reward arrangements for employees and to ensure harmonisation of conditions in comparable posts
  • single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
  • single-suiter — one-suiter.
  • single-tongue — to play (any nonlegato passage) on a wind instrument by obstructing and uncovering the air passage through the lips with the tongue
  • single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
  • 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.
  • sitting judge — a presiding judge; a judge in office
  • sleeping suit — an all-in-one outfit that babies and young children sleep in
  • slimming club — a group of people who meet regularly and are all trying to lose weight
  • snuff-dipping — the practice of absorbing nicotine by holding in one's mouth, between the cheek and the gum, a small amount of tobacco, either loose or enclosed in a sachet
  • solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
  • 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.
  • sounding lead — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
  • sounding line — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
  • soundproofing — materials used to make something soundproof
  • south georgia — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
  • sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
  • speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
  • spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • spinning mule — mule1 (def 7).
  • splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
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