13-letter words containing s, a, n, g, u, i
- quinquagesima — the Sunday before Lent; Shrove Sunday.
- rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
- raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
- regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
- running start — Sports. a start, as in the hop, step, and jump or the running broad jump, in which a contestant begins moving before reaching the starting or take-off point.
- saint-gaudens — Augustus, 1848–1907, U.S. sculptor, born in Ireland.
- saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
- self-assuming — taking too much for granted; presumptuous.
- shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
- shih huang ti — 259–210 b.c, Chinese emperor c247–210 b.c. initiated the building of the Great Wall of China.
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- sign language — Also called sign. any of several visual-gestural systems of communication, especially employing manual gestures, as used among deaf people.
- single status — a national agreement that aims to avoid unfairness in pay and reward arrangements for employees and to ensure harmonisation of conditions in comparable posts
- single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
- singular noun — A singular noun is a noun such as 'standstill' or 'vicinity' that does not have a plural form and always has a determiner such as 'a' or 'the' in front of it.
- solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
- sound ranging — a method for determining the distance between a point and the position of a sound source by measuring the time lapse between the origin of the sound and its arrival at the point.
- sounding lead — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
- sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
- speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
- spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner
- st. augustine — Saint, a.d. 354–430, one of the Latin fathers in the early Christian Church; author; bishop of Hippo in N Africa.
- standing jump — a jump performed from a stationary position without a run-up
- straighten up — stand straighter
- strangulation — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
- subastringent — slightly astringent.
- subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- subgeneration — a generation within another generation
- subtriangular — almost triangular;not quite triangular
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
- superorganism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- superregional — involving many regions
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- tungstic acid — a hydrate of tungsten trioxide, H 2 WO 4 ⋅H 2 O, used in the manufacture of tungsten-lamp filaments.
- unambiguously — plainly, clearly
- understaffing — the condition of being understaffed or of lacking a number of employees
- understanding — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
- undiagnosable — unable to be diagnosed
- undiscouraged — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- undisguisable — to change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb: The king was disguised as a peasant.
- undistracting — not distracting; not showy or ostentatious
- unfascinating — of great interest or attraction; enchanting; charming; captivating: a fascinating story; fascinating jewelry.
- ungainsayable — irrefutable
- unilingualist — in favour of having only one official language