13-letter words containing s, c, u, n, g, i
- quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
- raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
- restructuring — to change, alter, or restore the structure of: to restructure a broken nose.
- running costs — The running costs of a business are the amount of money that is regularly spent on things such as salaries, heating, lighting, and rent.
- saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
- school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
- scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
- scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
- single sculls — a race for sculls each rowed by one oarsman using a pair of oars.
- slimming club — a group of people who meet regularly and are all trying to lose weight
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
- stocking unit — A stocking unit is a measurement or number by which items are kept in inventory, for example by dozens, kilograms, or cases.
- string course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- subcontiguous — almost touching; nearly contiguous.
- subjectifying — to make subjective.
- sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- surfing music — rock-'n'-roll music from California in the early 1960s, characterized by close treble harmonies and with lyrics emphasizing the exhilaration of surfing and beach life.
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- thumb-sucking — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- tungstic acid — a hydrate of tungsten trioxide, H 2 WO 4 ⋅H 2 O, used in the manufacture of tungsten-lamp filaments.
- unconsidering — not reflective or thoughtful
- understocking — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
- undiscouraged — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- undistracting — not distracting; not showy or ostentatious
- unfascinating — of great interest or attraction; enchanting; charming; captivating: a fascinating story; fascinating jewelry.
- unsignificant — important; of consequence.
- wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994