12-letter words containing i, n, s, g
- skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
- slab dashing — the act or process of covering an exterior wall with roughcast.
- slam dancing — the act of hurling oneself repeatedly into or through a crowd at a rock-music concert
- slant height — (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base.
- slap dashing — slab dashing.
- sleeping bag — a warmly lined or padded body-length bag, usually waterproof and with a closure, in which one or two persons can sleep, especially outdoors, as when camping.
- sleeping car — a railroad car fitted with berths, compartments, bedrooms, or drawing rooms for passengers to sleep in.
- sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
- sliding door — door which opens on a runner
- sliding rule — (formerly) a slide rule.
- sliding seat — a rower's seat that rides on wheels in metal tracks fastened to the boat's frame, allowing the seat to slide back and forth, thereby tapping the rower's leg strength to maximize the stroke.
- slimming aid — food or food supplements that can help you lose weight
- slinger ring — a tubular ring around the hub of an aircraft propeller through which antifreeze solution is spread over the propeller blades by centrifugal force
- slip casting — a pottery-making process in which partially liquefied clay is poured into a plaster mold.
- sloganeering — Sloganeering is the use of slogans by people such as politicians or advertising agencies.
- slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
- slow-burning — (of combustible material) burning relatively slowly
- slubberingly — in a slubbering or slovenly manner
- slumberingly — in a slumbering manner
- smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- smoke signal — If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out.
- smoking area — a designated area in which smoking is permitted
- smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
- smoking room — a room set apart for smoking, as in a hotel or clubhouse.
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- smyth sewing — a method of sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a single thread sewn through the folds of individual signatures.
- snapshotting — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- sniggeringly — with a snigger
- snow bunting — a bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis, of the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere having white plumage.
- snow pudding — a pudding, prepared by folding egg whites into a lemon gelatin mixture.
- snowboarding — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
- sociogenesis — contributing to or affecting the course of social development: sociogenetic factors leading to war.
- sociogenetic — contributing to or affecting the course of social development: sociogenetic factors leading to war.
- sofa surfing — (of a homeless person) the practice of staying temporarily with various friends and relatives while attempting to find permanent accommodation
- soft landing — space vehicle
- somaticizing — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
- sorting code — a sequence of numbers printed on a cheque or embossed on a bank or building-society card that identifies the branch holding the account
- sorting yard — sorting tracks.
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- space-saving — that saves space.
- spade guinea — a guinea decorated with a spade-shaped shield, coined during the reign of George III
- span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- spearfishing — any of several fishes of the genus Tetrapturus, resembling the sailfish but having the first dorsal fin much less developed: inhabiting all seas, but rare.
- spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
- specialising — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- speechifying — Speechifying is the making of speeches, especially because you want to appear important.
- speed dating — an organized social event in which participants have one-on-one conversations typically limited to less than ten minutes, for the purpose of meeting people they would like to date.
- speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- speedskating — a form of ice skating in which contestants race against each other or the clock over various distances