13-letter words containing p, l, i, n, g, e
- 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.
- sinking spell — a temporary decline, as in health or market values: Wall Street is over its sinking spell.
- sleep hygiene — the habits conducive to getting the right amount and quality of sleep
- sleeping area — an area in a room or house where people can sleep
- sleeping pill — a pill or capsule containing a drug for inducing sleep.
- sleeping suit — an all-in-one outfit that babies and young children sleep in
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
- special agent — an investigator in a law enforcement agency.
- speed dialing — to dial (a telephone number) using speed dial.
- speed walking — power walking.
- 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.
- spinning mule — mule1 (def 7).
- spinning reel — a fishing reel mounted on a spinning rod, having a stationary spool on the side of which is a revolving metal arm that catches the line and winds it onto the spool as a handle is turned, the metal arm being disengaged during casting so the line spirals freely off the spool, carried by the cast lure.
- splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
- sprightliness — animated or vivacious; lively.
- 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.
- string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
- string-puller — a person who uses his or her influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
- sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
- superregional — involving many regions
- supplementing — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
- 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
- temporizingly — in a yielding manner
- trigger plant — any of several small grasslike plants of the genus Stylidium, having sensitive stamens that are erected when disturbed: family Stylidiaceae
- 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.
- tripping line — a journey or voyage: to win a trip to Paris.
- unappealingly — in an unappealing manner
- unplagiarized — to take and use by plagiarism.
- unrepentingly — in an unrepenting or impenitent manner
- valet parking — a service offered by a hotel, restaurant, etc., by which patrons' cars are parked by an attendant.
- volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
- weeping myall — any of several Australian acacias, especially Acacia pendula (weeping myall) having gray foliage and drooping branches.
- well-speaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- when pigs fly — If you say 'when pigs fly' after someone has said that something might happen, you are emphasizing that you think it is very unlikely.
- zuppa inglese — tiered layers of sponge cake sprinkled with rum or liqueur, then spread with custard or other cream filling.