11-letter words containing i, n, s, g
- slightingly — derogatory and disparaging; belittling.
- sling chair — any of several varieties of chairs having a seat and back formed from a single sheet of canvas, leather, or the like, hanging loosely in a frame.
- slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
- slow-acting — working or acting slowly, not immediately
- slow-moving — proceeding with or characterized by slow, sluggish, or leisurely movement or activity.
- slumgullion — a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
- smoking ban — the prohibition of smoking cigarettes, etc in public places
- smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
- smoking gun — indisputable proof or evidence of a crime.
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- snatchingly — in a snatching manner
- sniffer dog — a dog trained to find illegal drugs or explosives by smell.
- snorkelling — the activity of swimming with a snorkel
- snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
- snow grains — precipitation consisting of white, opaque ice particles usually less than one millimeter in diameter.
- snowballing — a ball of snow pressed or rolled together, as for throwing.
- snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
- snowshoeing — the activity of taking part in cross-country walks over snow
- snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow
- socializing — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- sock lining — a thin piece of material, as leather, that is laid on top of the insole of a shoe, boot, or other footwear.
- soil boring — Soil boring is a technique used to survey soil by taking several shallow cores out of the sediment. It is used when a drilling jacket or jack-up rig is to be supported on the soil.
- solid angle — an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting in a common point or formed at the vertex of a cone.
- somatogenic — developing from somatic cells.
- songwriting — composing melodies and lyrics
- soothsaying — the practice or art of foretelling events.
- sopping wet — soaked, dripping
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- southington — a town in central Connecticut.
- sovereignly — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
- spacefaring — space travel
- spaghettini — pasta in the form of long thin strings
- sparklingly — in a sparkling manner
- speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- speedcoding — (language) A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics on IBM 701 and IBM 650 written by John Backus in 1953.
- sphingosine — a basic unsaturated amino alcohol, C 1 8 H 3 3 (OH) 2 NH 2 , produced by the hydrolysis of sphingomyelin or gangliosides.
- spin-drying — a technique for extracting water from clothes, linen, etc, by spinning them in a perforated drum
- spindlelegs — (used with a plural verb) long, thin legs.
- spirketting — deck planking near the bulwarks
- spitsbergen — a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, N of and belonging to Norway. 24,293 sq. mi. (62,920 sq. km).
- spitzbergen — a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, N of and belonging to Norway. 24,293 sq. mi. (62,920 sq. km).
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- splintering — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- split wings — wings (of an artificial fly) that are dressed cocked up and separated into a V shape
- splodginess — the state of being splodgy
- sponge iron — finely divided, porous iron, reduced from an oxide at a temperature below the melting point.
- sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
- spot fixing — the act of deliberately engineering an outcome within a sporting contest without attempting to alter the outcome of the contest itself
- spreadingly — in a spreading manner