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13-letter words containing n, i, g, e, l, a

  • sleeping area — an area in a room or house where people can sleep
  • slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
  • sliding scale — a variable scale, especially of industrial costs, as wages, that may be adapted to changes in demand.
  • slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
  • 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.
  • special agent — an investigator in a law enforcement agency.
  • speed dialing — to dial (a telephone number) using speed dial.
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • spring a leak — to develop a leak
  • spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
  • spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
  • squanderingly — in a squandering manner
  • stained glass — glass that has been colored, enameled, painted, or stained, especially by having pigments baked onto its surface or by having various metallic oxides fused into it, as used in church windows, decorative lampshades, etc.
  • stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
  • starring role — a main role; the main role
  • starting line — marking at beginning of a race
  • sterling area — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
  • straight-line — (of a machine) having components that are arranged in a row or that move in a straight line when in operation
  • string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • superregional — involving many regions
  • syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
  • table dancing — Table dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances in a sexy way close to a customer or group of customers.
  • table setting — a set of cutlery, glasses, napkin, etc. for one person, as used on a table
  • table-rapping — the sounds of knocking or tapping made without any apparent physical agency while a group of people sit round a table, and attributed by spiritualists to the spirit of a dead person using this as a means of communication with the living
  • table-turning — the movement of a table attributed by spiritualists to the power of spirits working through a group of persons placing their hands or fingers on the table top
  • tale of genji — a novel (1001–20?) by Lady Murasaki, dealing with Japanese court life.
  • talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
  • tangentiality — pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent; being or moving in the direction of a tangent.
  • technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • telediagnosis — the detection of a disease by evaluating data transmitted to a receiving station from instruments monitoring a distant patient, as someone in a spacecraft.
  • telegenically — having physical qualities or characteristics that televise well; videogenic.
  • telemarketing — selling or advertising by telephone.
  • televangelism — Christian preaching on TV
  • televangelist — an evangelist who regularly conducts religious services on television.
  • the highlands — mountainous region occupying nearly all of the N half of Scotland
  • threateningly — tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures.
  • tintagel head — a cape in SW England, on the W coast of Cornwall.
  • trailing edge — the rear edge of a propeller blade or airfoil.
  • traveling bag — a small bag, as a valise or suitcase, usually made of leather, having an oblong shape, and used chiefly to hold clothes.
  • trigger plant — any of several small grasslike plants of the genus Stylidium, having sensitive stamens that are erected when disturbed: family Stylidiaceae
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
  • unappealingly — in an unappealing manner
  • unbenignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
  • uncategorical — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
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