13-letter words containing n, o, t, l, g
- single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- single-action — (of a firearm) requiring the cocking of the hammer before firing each shot: a single-action revolver.
- single-storey — (of a building) having only one floor or level
- single-tongue — to play (any nonlegato passage) on a wind instrument by obstructing and uncovering the air passage through the lips with the tongue
- skeletogenous — forming a skeleton, or parts of one
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
- soul-stirring — arousing excitement and enthusiasm; uplifting
- sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna
- sporting lady — a prostitute.
- spot lighting — Spot lighting is lighting directed towards and used to draw attention to a product or display.
- starring role — a main role; the main role
- steering lock — an anti-theft device
- sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
- stocking loom — a type of knitting machine
- stone boiling — a primitive method of boiling liquid with heated stones
- strangulation — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
- strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
- subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- swift-flowing — moving rapidly
- tale of genji — a novel (1001–20?) by Lady Murasaki, dealing with Japanese court life.
- talking point — a fact or feature that aids or supports one side, as in an argument or competition.
- technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
- technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- technologized — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- telecommuting — working at home by using a computer terminal electronically linked to one's place of employment.
- 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.
- telephone tag — repeated unsuccessful attempts by two persons to connect with one another by telephone.
- telerecording — the recording of television signals on tape or, more usually, on film
- temple orange — a hybrid fruit, Citrus nobilis, that is a cross between the sweet orange and the tangerine.
- temporizingly — in a yielding manner
- thanatologist — a person who engages in the academic study of death and dying
- the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
- the long term — the time some years ahead, (as opposed to the immediate future)
- the oligocene — the Oligocene epoch or rock series
- the paleogene — the Paleogene subdivision of the Tertiary Period or its rocks
- thong leather — whang2 (def 2).
- thyroglobulin — a protein which is found in the thyroid gland and which contains iodine
- thyroid gland — a two-lobed endocrine gland, located at the base of the neck that secretes two hormones that regulate the rates of metabolism, growth, and development.
- tone language — a language, as Swedish, Chinese, Yoruba, or Serbo-Croatian, in which words that are otherwise phonologically identical are distinguished by having different pitches or pitch contour.
- touch-in-goal — the area at each end of the field outside of a touch-in-goal line.
- 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.
- trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
- triangulation — a technique for establishing the distance between any two points, or the relative position of two or more points, by using such points as vertices of a triangle or series of triangles, such that each triangle has a side of known or measurable length (base or base line) that permits the size of the angles of the triangle and the length of its other two sides to be established by observations taken either upon or from the two ends of the base line.
- 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.
- tropocollagen — the molecular unit which forms collagen, consisting of three polypeptide chains
- troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- tung-oil tree — tung tree.