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13-letter words containing o, i, l, s, a

  • 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).
  • sirloin steak — cut of beef
  • situationally — manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment: The situation of the house allowed for a beautiful view.
  • skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
  • slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
  • slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
  • slieve donard — a mountain in SE Northern Ireland, in the Mourne Mountains: highest peak in Northern Ireland. Height: 853 m (2798 ft)
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • small calorie — Thermodynamics. calorie (def 1a).
  • small holding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
  • social action — individual or group behavior that involves interaction with other individuals or groups, especially organized action toward social reform.
  • social circle — a group of people who are socially connected
  • social column — a column in a newspaper or magazine that details the activities of members of fashionable society
  • social credit — the doctrine that under capitalism there is an inadequate distribution of purchasing power, for which the remedy lies in governmental control of retail prices and the distribution of national dividends to consumers.
  • social gaming — the playing of online games on social media websites.
  • social gospel — a movement in America, chiefly in the early part of the 20th century, stressing the social teachings of Jesus and their applicability to public life.
  • social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
  • social misfit — a person who does not conform to others' views of what is normal or acceptable in society
  • social phobia — a type of anxiety disorder characterized by shyness and heightened self-consciousness in particular social situations
  • social skills — ability to interact
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • social-minded — interested in or concerned with social conditions or the welfare of society.
  • socialization — a continuing process whereby an individual acquires a personal identity and learns the norms, values, behavior, and social skills appropriate to his or her social position.
  • sociocultural — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and cultural elements.
  • sodomitically — in a sodomitical manner
  • solar chariot — (in ancient Egypt) a chariot placed in the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
  • solar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
  • solemnization — to perform the ceremony of (marriage).
  • solicitations — instances of asking someone for money, help, support, or an opinion
  • solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
  • solifidianism — a person who maintains that faith alone, without the performance of good works, is all that is necessary for salvation.
  • solitary wasp — any of numerous wasps, as the sand wasps or mud wasps, that do not live in a community.
  • solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
  • sophistically — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
  • 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.
  • sow wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
  • space biology — exobiology.
  • spadicifloral — having flowers borne on a spadix
  • spasmodically — given to or characterized by bursts of excitement.
  • spastic colon — a chronic condition of recurring abdominal pain with constipation or diarrhoea or both
  • special offer — bargain
  • special order — A special order is an extra order or an order for an item specially requested by a customer.
  • special-order — to obtain by specific individual order: to special-order a dining-room chandelier.
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna
  • spinal column — the series of vertebrae in a vertebrate animal forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; spine; backbone.
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