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13-letter words containing o, r, g, n, e

  • running order — The running order of the items in a broadcast, concert, or show is the order in which the items will come.
  • saint gregory — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
  • scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
  • scorchingness — the state or quality of being scorching
  • second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
  • second string — Sports. the squad of players available either individually or as a team to replace or relieve those who start a game.
  • second-degree — In the United States, second-degree is used to describe crimes that are considered to be less serious than first-degree crimes.
  • second-grader — a pupil who is in the second grade
  • segregational — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
  • selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • self-governed — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • selling floor — floor (def 10).
  • serodiagnosis — a diagnosis involving tests on blood serum or other serous fluid of the body.
  • serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
  • serving spoon — utensil used to serve food
  • sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
  • shivering owl — screech owl.
  • short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
  • silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
  • single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single-storey — (of a building) having only one floor or level
  • skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
  • skiing resort — a place which provides accommodation and facilities for skiing such as skiing trails, slopes, etc, esp for people who go there to take skiing holidays
  • skipping rope — A skipping rope or skip rope is a piece of rope, usually with handles at each end. You exercise or play with it by turning it round and round and jumping over it.
  • skipping-rope — Also, jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.
  • sloane ranger — a member of a trendy and acquisitive set of largely upper-middle-class young people of London, England.
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • sovereigntist — a supporter of sovereignty association
  • spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
  • sponge finger — sweet finger-shaped biscuit
  • sponge rubber — a light, spongy rubber, usually prepared by bubbling carbon dioxide through or whipping air into latex, used for padding, insulation, gaskets, etc.; foam rubber.
  • spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
  • spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
  • springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • staghorn fern — any of several epiphytic Old World ferns of the genus Platycerium, having broad, often antlerlike leaves and cultivated as a houseplant.
  • starring role — a main role; the main role
  • staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • steganography — the practice of concealing messages in such a way that only the sender and the recipient know that there is a message
  • stereognostic — the ability to determine the shape and weight of an object by touching or lifting it.
  • sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
  • steroidogenic — of or pertaining to steroidogenesis
  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • storage organ — any swollen plant part in which food is stored, as fruit, root, or tuber.
  • store manager — sb who runs a shop
  • string course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
  • string theory — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
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