13-letter words containing l, u, i, s
- single sculls — a race for sculls each rowed by one oarsman using a pair of oars.
- single status — a national agreement that aims to avoid unfairness in pay and reward arrangements for employees and to ensure harmonisation of conditions in comparable posts
- single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
- single-suiter — one-suiter.
- single-tongue — to play (any nonlegato passage) on a wind instrument by obstructing and uncovering the air passage through the lips with the tongue
- single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
- singular noun — A singular noun is a noun such as 'standstill' or 'vicinity' that does not have a plural form and always has a determiner such as 'a' or 'the' in front of it.
- sinistrocular — favoring the left eye, rather than the right, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to dextrocular).
- sinumbra lamp — an unshaded sperm-oil lamp consisting of a translucent glass globe supported on a pedestal: a form of astral lamp.
- situationally — manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment: The situation of the house allowed for a beautiful view.
- skill-fulness — having or exercising skill: a skillful juggler.
- skull session — a meeting for the purpose of discussion, exchange of ideas, solving problems, etc.
- sky-blue pink — a jocular name for a nonexistent, unknown, or unimportant colour
- sleeping suit — an all-in-one outfit that babies and young children sleep in
- slimming club — a group of people who meet regularly and are all trying to lose weight
- social column — a column in a newspaper or magazine that details the activities of members of fashionable society
- sociocultural — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and cultural elements.
- solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
- somniloquence — sleep-talking
- soul-stirring — arousing excitement and enthusiasm; uplifting
- sound library — a collection of sounds stored on file (for example on CDs, DVDs, or as digital audio files)
- sounding lead — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
- sounding line — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
- south shields — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tyne River.
- sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
- spathiphyllum — any of various tropical plants of the genus Spathiphyllum, having a white or green spathe and a spike of fragrant flowers and often cultivated as an ornamental.
- speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- spinal column — the series of vertebrae in a vertebrate animal forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; spine; backbone.
- spinning mule — mule1 (def 7).
- spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
- spiral nebula — (formerly) a spiral galaxy.
- splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
- splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
- spring squill — a European liliaceous plant Scilla verna, having small blue or purple flowers
- 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.
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner
- square splice — a scarf joint between two pieces, having the form of a half-lap joint with a thicker and a thinner section for each piece, the thicker one being at the end: used to resist tension.
- squeezability — the quality of being capable of, or suitable for, being squeezed
- squirrel away — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
- squirrel cage — a cage containing a cylindrical framework that is rotated by a squirrel or other small animal running inside of it.
- squirrel corn — an American plant, Dicentra canadensis, of the fumitory family, having yellow roots resembling kernels of corn, finely dissected leaves, and clusters of drooping, heart-shaped, cream-colored flowers.
- stalactitious — containing stalactites
- stentoriously — stentorian.
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- stimulability — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stirpiculture — the production of special stocks or strains by careful breeding.
- stoloniferous — producing or bearing stolons.
- strangulation — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
- stratum title — a system of registered ownership of space in multistorey buildings, to be equivalent to the ownership of the land of a single-storey building