13-letter words containing o, l, i, g, e, n
- single combat — combat between two persons.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- spelling book — an elementary textbook or manual to teach spelling
- spelling-book — a person who spells words.
- 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.
- spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
- 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.
- stone boiling — a primitive method of boiling liquid with heated stones
- strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
- subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
- superregional — involving many regions
- swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
- syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
- tale of genji — a novel (1001–20?) by Lady Murasaki, dealing with Japanese court life.
- 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.
- telerecording — the recording of television signals on tape or, more usually, on film
- temporizingly — in a yielding manner
- the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
- the oligocene — the Oligocene epoch or rock series
- 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.
- 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.
- twilight zone — the lowest level of the ocean that light can reach.
- uncategorical — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
- underclothing — clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes.
- undiagnosable — unable to be diagnosed
- unideological — not having, belonging to, or relating to any particular ideology or belief system
- unneighbourly — unfriendly and unhelpful
- unreconciling — to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.
- untheological — not theological; not of or pertaining to the nature of theology
- ustilagineous — belonging to the Ustilaginales, an order of fungi that cause plant disease
- venereologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
- volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
- wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
- wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.