14-letter words containing p, a, l, i, s, g
- sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
- shopping plaza — a complex of stores, banks, movie theaters, etc.; shopping center.
- sigma particle — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- singular point — a point at which a given function of a complex variable has no derivative but of which every neighborhood contains points at which the function has derivatives.
- sleep learning — the act or process of learning during sleep by listening to recordings repeatedly.
- sleep-learning — the idea that people can learn things while they are asleep
- sleeping chair — a chair of the 17th century, having a high back, usually adjustable, with deep wings of the same height.
- sleeping giant — If you refer to someone or something as a sleeping giant, you mean that they are powerful but they have not yet shown the full extent of their power.
- social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
- sparkling wine — a wine that is naturally carbonated by a second fermentation.
- speaking clock — a telephone service that gives a precise verbal statement of the correct time
- spectrological — relating to spectres or spectrology
- spiral binding — a binding, as for a notebook or booklet, in which the pages are fastened together by a spiral of wire or plastic that coils through a series of holes punched along one side of each page and the front and back covers.
- spring balance — a device in which an object to be weighed is attached to the end of a helical spring, the extension of which indicates the weight of the object on a calibrated scale
- steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
- stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
- sticking place — Also called sticking point. the place or point at which something stops and holds firm.
- stigmatophilia — a love for body piercing or tattooing that is accompanied by sexual arousal
- stopping place — a place where vehicles may stop temporarily
- strip planting — the growing of different crops on alternate strips of ground that usually follow the contour of the land, a recourse to minimize erosion.
- sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
- supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
- thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
- transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
- trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- walking papers — notice of dismissal
- walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- webliographies — Plural form of webliography.