13-letter words containing g, u, i
- spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
- spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
- spring squill — a European liliaceous plant Scilla verna, having small blue or purple flowers
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- spurious wing — alula (def 1).
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner
- square-rigged — having square sails as the principal sails.
- square-rigger — having square sails as the principal sails.
- squirrel cage — a cage containing a cylindrical framework that is rotated by a squirrel or other small animal running inside of it.
- st. augustine — Saint, a.d. 354–430, one of the Latin fathers in the early Christian Church; author; bishop of Hippo in N Africa.
- standing jump — a jump performed from a stationary position without a run-up
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- stinking smut — bunt3 .
- stocking unit — A stocking unit is a measurement or number by which items are kept in inventory, for example by dozens, kilograms, or cases.
- straighten up — stand straighter
- strangulation — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
- string course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- string-puller — a person who uses his or her influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
- stultifyingly — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
- styling brush — a hairbrush used to style or neaten hair
- sub-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- subastringent — slightly astringent.
- subcategorize — to split into subcategories
- subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
- subcontiguous — almost touching; nearly contiguous.
- subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- subgeneration — a generation within another generation
- subjectifying — to make subjective.
- subtriangular — almost triangular;not quite triangular
- sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- sugar of milk — lactose.
- suggestionism — the art of hypnotic suggestion
- suggestionist — a practitioner of suggestionism
- suggestionize — to treat or influence by the power of suggestion
- suicidologist — someone who studies suicidology
- sulfur spring — a spring the water of which contains naturally occurring sulfur compounds.
- sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
- 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
- supplementing — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
- supreme being — God.
- surfing music — rock-'n'-roll music from California in the early 1960s, characterized by close treble harmonies and with lyrics emphasizing the exhilaration of surfing and beach life.
- surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- table-turning — the movement of a table attributed by spiritualists to the power of spirits working through a group of persons placing their hands or fingers on the table top
- teeing ground — tee2 (def 1a).
- telecommuting — working at home by using a computer terminal electronically linked to one's place of employment.