15-letter words containing r, i, s, n, g
- slab plastering — coarse plastering, as between the studs in a half-timbered wall.
- slavonian grebe — a N Eurasian or N American grebe with reddish underside and a black and gold crest; Podiceps auritus
- sliver building — a very narrow skyscraper designed in response to restriction of the building site or zoning, frequently containing only a single apartment per floor or comparably limited office space.
- smoking-concert — a concert where smoking is allowed.
- smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
- snapping turtle — either of two large, edible, freshwater turtles of the family Chelydridae, of North and Central America, having a large head and powerful hooked jaws, especially the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina.
- sneezing powder — a powder used to make people sneeze as a practical joke
- social drinking — the practice of drinking alcohol occasionally and usually only in social situations
- social-drinking — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
- soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
- sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere.
- southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
- southern gothic — a literary genre depicting life in the southern US and featuring grotesque themes and imagery
- southern lights — aurora australis.
- sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
- spawning ground — a place where fish deposit their eggs for fertilization
- speech training — training designed to improve spoken skills, such as voice projection
- spelling reform — an attempt to change the spelling of English words to make it conform more closely to pronunciation.
- spermatogenesis — the origin and development of spermatozoa.
- spherical angle — an angle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
- spirit leveling — leveling according to the indications of a spirit level.
- sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
- spread sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical analysis by selecting a number of short passages at random throughout the work and considering their aggregation
- spring mattress — a mattress containing an arrangement of spiral springs
- spring training — a program of physical exercise, practice, and exhibition games followed by a baseball team in the late winter and early spring, before the start of the regular season.
- spring-cleaning — a complete cleaning of a place, as a home, done traditionally in the spring of the year.
- stage direction — an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements.
- stamping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
- standard lining — a system for aligning type so that all fonts of the same point size have a common baseline.
- standing charge — fixed energy costs
- standing orders — Military. (formerly) a general order always in force in a command and establishing uniform procedures for it; standard operating procedure.
- start something — to cause a disturbance or trouble
- starting blocks — the rigid blocks adjustable at an angle and mounted on a track against which a runner's shoes are placed to aid in starting
- starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
- starting pistol — a pistol used to give the signal to start a race
- starting salary — an employee's initial rate of pay
- starting stalls — a line of stalls in which horses are enclosed at the start of a race and from which they are released by the simultaneous springing open of retaining barriers at the front of each stall
- steam reforming — a process in which methane from natural gas is heated, with steam, usually with a catalyst, to produce a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen used in organic synthesis and as a fuel
- steel engraving — a method of incising letters, designs, etc., on steel.
- steering column — the shaft that connects the steering wheel to the steering gear assembly of an automotive vehicle.
- sterling silver — of, relating to, or noting British money: The sterling equivalent is #5.50.
- steroidogenesis — the formation of steroids, as by the adrenal cortex, testes, and ovaries.
- sticky-fingered — given to thieving
- stirling engine — an external-combustion engine in which heat from outside the cylinders causes air confined in the cylinders to expand and drive the pistons.
- stocking filler — A stocking filler is a small present that is suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking.
- stomping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
- straight-acting — (of a gay person) having the mannerisms of a heterosexual person: used esp by gay people of other gay people
- straining piece — (in a queen-post roof) a horizontal beam uniting the tops of the two queen posts, and resisting the thrust of the roof.
- street fighting — violent and illegal fighting between individuals or groups
- street lighting — the provision of lighting at night in public places to illuminate the streets