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

  • regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
  • ring topology — ring network
  • ringed plover — any of several cosmopolitan plovers of the genus Charadrius, especially C. hiaticula, brownish above and white below with a black band around the breast.
  • rolling paper — cigarette paper available in small packages to smokers for rolling their own cigarettes.
  • rumelgumption — commonsense
  • rumlegumption — commonsense
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • salpingostomy — the formation of an artificial opening into a Fallopian tube.
  • self-exposing — to lay open to danger, attack, harm, etc.: to expose soldiers to gunfire; to expose one's character to attack.
  • self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
  • selling point — a unique or advantageous feature that appeals to the prospective buyer of a service, product, etc.: A generous discount is the chief selling point of the book club.
  • serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
  • shopping list — a list made by a shopper of items or goods to be bought.
  • shopping mall — mall (def 1).
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • 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.
  • sporting lady — a prostitute.
  • spot lighting — Spot lighting is lighting directed towards and used to draw attention to a product or display.
  • spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
  • superregional — involving many regions
  • swimming pool — a tank or large artificial basin, as of concrete, for filling with water for swimming.
  • talking point — a fact or feature that aids or supports one side, as in an argument or competition.
  • temporizingly — in a yielding manner
  • town planning — city planning.
  • tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
  • triple-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
  • unapologizing — not apologetic; not willing to apologize or to make an apology
  • unapprovingly — in an unapproving manner
  • uncomplaining — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
  • unpromisingly — in a manner that is not showing any promise of favourable development or future success
  • unprovokingly — serving to provoke; causing annoyance.
  • volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
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