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13-letter words containing p, i, l, g, a

  • self-pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
  • shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
  • shaking palsy — Parkinson's disease.
  • shipping lane — sea lane.
  • shopping mall — mall (def 1).
  • single parent — mother or father without a partner
  • single-parent — of or noting a family in which a parent brings up a child or children alone, without a partner: a single-parent family; a single-parent household.
  • sleeping area — an area in a room or house where people can sleep
  • slip carriage — a railway car detached from a moving train as it passes through a station.
  • slip trailing — the act of decorating an object with a poured stream of slip.
  • slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • 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.
  • space biology — exobiology.
  • spaghettilike — resembling spaghetti
  • sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
  • special agent — an investigator in a law enforcement agency.
  • speed dialing — to dial (a telephone number) using speed dial.
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna
  • spiral casing — a spiral passage for directing the water from a penstock around a water turbine and into the rotor.
  • spiral galaxy — a galaxy having a spiral structure.
  • spiral spring — a form of spring consisting of a wire coiled in a helix.
  • splitting adz — a heavy stone tool used by prehistoric peoples in northwestern North America and northeastern Asia.
  • sporting lady — a prostitute.
  • spring a leak — to develop a leak
  • spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
  • spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
  • superregional — involving many regions
  • table-rapping — the sounds of knocking or tapping made without any apparent physical agency while a group of people sit round a table, and attributed by spiritualists to the spirit of a dead person using this as a means of communication with the living
  • talking point — a fact or feature that aids or supports one side, as in an argument or competition.
  • the big apple — New York City
  • the-big-apple — New York City.
  • thigh-slapper — a very funny joke, remark, story, or incident.
  • topographical — the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
  • topologically — the study of those properties of geometric forms that remain invariant under certain transformations, as bending or stretching.
  • town planning — city planning.
  • tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
  • tramping club — an organization of people who walk for recreation, esp in the bush
  • trigger plant — any of several small grasslike plants of the genus Stylidium, having sensitive stamens that are erected when disturbed: family Stylidiaceae
  • typographical — of or relating to typography.
  • typologically — the doctrine or study of types or prefigurative symbols, especially in scriptural literature.
  • unapologizing — not apologetic; not willing to apologize or to make an apology
  • unappealingly — in an unappealing manner
  • unapprovingly — in an unapproving manner
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