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12-letter words containing o, l, i, n, g, s

  • sailing boat — sailboat.
  • salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
  • sanguicolous — living in the blood, as a parasite.
  • sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
  • saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
  • scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
  • school night — any night of the week that precedes a day of school
  • self-closing — the end or conclusion, as of a speech.
  • self-cooking — the act of a person or thing that cooks.
  • self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
  • self-locking — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
  • self-mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
  • self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
  • semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
  • signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
  • signal corps — a branch of the army responsible for military communications, meteorological studies, and related work.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
  • silicon glen — a collective term for the industries in Scotland associated with information technology, esp those concentrated in the central conurbation between Glasgow and Edinburgh
  • simon legreeSimon, Simon Legree.
  • single modal — modal (def 3).
  • single-cross — a cross between two inbred lines.
  • sliding door — door which opens on a runner
  • sloganeering — Sloganeering is the use of slogans by people such as politicians or advertising agencies.
  • slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
  • slow-burning — (of combustible material) burning relatively slowly
  • smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
  • smoke signal — If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out.
  • smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
  • smotheringly — in a smothering manner
  • soft landing — space vehicle
  • span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • spoil ground — an area within a body of water, especially in the sea, where dredged material is deposited.
  • spongicolous — relating to the skeleton of some marine animals
  • spongillafly — spongefly.
  • spongioblast — one of the primordial cells in the embryonic brain and spinal cord capable of developing into neuroglia.
  • spongologist — a person who studies sponges
  • sporangiolum — a small sporangium
  • spot welding — fusing metal
  • spotlighting — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
  • stockingless — not wearing or having stockings
  • stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
  • stool pigeon — a pigeon used as a decoy.
  • storm signal — a visual signal, as a flag, giving advance notice of a heavy storm, used especially along coastal areas.
  • storytelling — the telling or writing of stories.
  • string along — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
  • strongsville — a town in N Ohio.
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