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12-letter words containing i, n, s, g

  • shortcomings — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
  • show jumping — sport: horseriding event
  • showstopping — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
  • side against — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
  • sidestepping — the act of ascending or descending by facing sideways and lifting each ski alternately
  • sight screen — a white screen set in line with the wicket as an aid to the batsman in seeing the ball when it is bowled.
  • sight unseen — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
  • sightseeings — the act of visiting and seeing places and objects of interest.
  • sigismund ii — called Sigismund Augustus. 1520–72, king of Poland (1548–72), who united Poland, Lithuania, and their dependencies by the Union of Lublin (1569)
  • sigma baryon — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
  • sign a check — When you sign a check , you write your name on it in a special space in order to validate it.
  • sign-posting — a post bearing a sign that gives information or guidance.
  • signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
  • signal corps — a branch of the army responsible for military communications, meteorological studies, and related work.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • significance — importance; consequence: the significance of the new treaty.
  • significancy — significance.
  • significants — important; of consequence.
  • significator — a planet deemed significant in astrology
  • silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
  • silicon glen — a collective term for the industries in Scotland associated with information technology, esp those concentrated in the central conurbation between Glasgow and Edinburgh
  • simon legree — Simon, Simon Legree.
  • singableness — the quality of being singable
  • singing game — a children's game in which the players perform certain actions to the words of a song.
  • single blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which the researchers but not the subjects know which subjects are receiving the active medication or treatment and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias, as the placebo effect, from the test results.
  • single cream — dairy product: thin or light cream
  • single entry — an item noted only once.
  • single modal — modal (def 3).
  • single rhyme — a rhyme of monosyllables, as in heart, part.
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which the researchers but not the subjects know which subjects are receiving the active medication or treatment and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias, as the placebo effect, from the test results.
  • single-cross — a cross between two inbred lines.
  • single-digit — of or denoting a percentage smaller than ten, especially with reference to rates below that level: single-digit rates of inflation.
  • single-ended — (of a boiler) fired from one end only.
  • single-issue — pertaining or devoted to one public issue only, especially a political one: single-issue voters.
  • single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
  • single-payer — noting or relating to a healthcare or health insurance system in which the government or a publicly owned and regulated agency pays all medical costs from a single fund.
  • single-phase — noting or pertaining to a circuit having an alternating current with one phase or with phases differing by 180°.
  • single-space — to type (copy) on each line space.
  • single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • sinking fund — a fund to extinguish an indebtedness, usually a bond issue.
  • sitting bull — 1834–90, American Indian warrior: leader of the Hunkpapa; victor at Little Bighorn, 1876.
  • sitting duck — a helpless or easy target or victim: a sitting duck for shady financial schemes.
  • sitting room — a small living room, often one that forms part of a suite in a hotel, private house, etc.
  • sitting trot — a horse's trot during which the rider sits still in the saddle
  • skating rink — arena for ice skating
  • skating turn — a turn made by someone on roller or ice skates
  • skiing pants — warm, waterproof, protective trousers worn while skiing
  • skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
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