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13-letter words containing i, g, p, l

  • 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.
  • sinking spell — a temporary decline, as in health or market values: Wall Street is over its sinking spell.
  • sleep hygiene — the habits conducive to getting the right amount and quality of sleep
  • sleeping area — an area in a room or house where people can sleep
  • sleeping pill — a pill or capsule containing a drug for inducing sleep.
  • sleeping suit — an all-in-one outfit that babies and young children sleep in
  • slip carriage — a railway car detached from a moving train as it passes through a station.
  • slip trailing — the act of decorating an object with a poured stream of slip.
  • slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • social gospel — a movement in America, chiefly in the early part of the 20th century, stressing the social teachings of Jesus and their applicability to public life.
  • space biology — exobiology.
  • spaghettilike — resembling spaghetti
  • sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
  • special agent — an investigator in a law enforcement agency.
  • speed dialing — to dial (a telephone number) using speed dial.
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • spelling book — an elementary textbook or manual to teach spelling
  • spelling-book — a person who spells words.
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna
  • sphingomyelin — any of the class of phospholipids occurring chiefly in the brain and spinal cord, composed of phosphoric acid, choline, sphingosine, and a fatty acid.
  • spinning mule — mule1 (def 7).
  • spinning reel — a fishing reel mounted on a spinning rod, having a stationary spool on the side of which is a revolving metal arm that catches the line and winds it onto the spool as a handle is turned, the metal arm being disengaged during casting so the line spirals freely off the spool, carried by the cast lure.
  • spiral casing — a spiral passage for directing the water from a penstock around a water turbine and into the rotor.
  • spiral galaxy — a galaxy having a spiral structure.
  • spiral spring — a form of spring consisting of a wire coiled in a helix.
  • splitting adz — a heavy stone tool used by prehistoric peoples in northwestern North America and northeastern Asia.
  • splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
  • sporting lady — a prostitute.
  • spot lighting — Spot lighting is lighting directed towards and used to draw attention to a product or display.
  • sprightliness — animated or vivacious; lively.
  • spring a leak — to develop a leak
  • spring squill — a European liliaceous plant Scilla verna, having small blue or purple flowers
  • spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
  • spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
  • 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.
  • string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
  • string-puller — a person who uses his or her influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
  • 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.
  • superregional — involving many regions
  • supplementing — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
  • swimming pool — a tank or large artificial basin, as of concrete, for filling with water for swimming.
  • table-rapping — the sounds of knocking or tapping made without any apparent physical agency while a group of people sit round a table, and attributed by spiritualists to the spirit of a dead person using this as a means of communication with the living
  • talking point — a fact or feature that aids or supports one side, as in an argument or competition.
  • temporizingly — in a yielding manner
  • the big apple — New York City
  • the spotlight — the focus of attention
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