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14-letter words containing s, e, i, g

  • shooting range — place for practising with guns
  • shooting spree — a series of shootings by a mad person
  • shopping spree — frenzied, indulgent buying
  • short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
  • shutting stile — the stile of a door or shutter that closes against the frame of the opening.
  • side-splitting — convulsively uproarious: sidesplitting laughter.
  • siege perilous — a vacant seat at the Round Table that could be filled only by the predestined finder of the Holy Grail and was fatal to pretenders.
  • siegfried line — a zone of fortifications in W Germany facing the Maginot Line, constructed in the years preceding World War II.
  • sigh of relief — audible breath when difficulty is over
  • sigma particle — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
  • signature loan — a loan requiring no collateral.
  • signature tune — theme song (def 2).
  • signed english — a form of communication employing the signs of American Sign Language but using English grammar in place of ASL syntax and using invented forms for English grammatical elements, such as of, to, the, and -ing, where no ASL sign exists.
  • silver wedding — a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • singing lesson — taught class in how to sing
  • single bedroom — a bedroom that is intended to accommodate a single bed and occupancy of one person
  • single density — a disk with the normal capacity for storage
  • single honours — a British university degree course that involves study in a single area
  • single premium — a single payment that covers the entire cost of an insurance policy.
  • single-engined — (of an aircraft) having only one engine
  • single-hearted — sincere and undivided in feeling or spirit; dedicated; not reflecting mixed emotions: He was single-hearted in his patriotism.
  • single-sticker — a sailboat, esp. a sloop, having only one mast
  • sitting member — a current member of parliament
  • sitting pretty — (of a bird) occupying a nest of eggs for hatching.
  • sitting target — A sitting target is the same as a sitting duck.
  • sitting tenant — A sitting tenant is a person who rents a house or flat as their home and has a legal right to live there.
  • six-eight time — a form of compound duple time in which there are six quaver beats to the bar, indicated by the time signature 68
  • slamming stile — doorstop (def 2).
  • sleep learning — the act or process of learning during sleep by listening to recordings repeatedly.
  • sleep-learning — the idea that people can learn things while they are asleep
  • sleeping berth — a bunk for sleeping on on a train or boat
  • sleeping chair — a chair of the 17th century, having a high back, usually adjustable, with deep wings of the same height.
  • sleeping giant — If you refer to someone or something as a sleeping giant, you mean that they are powerful but they have not yet shown the full extent of their power.
  • sleeping porch — a porch enclosed with glass or screening or a room with open sides or a row of windows used for sleeping in the open air.
  • slide magazine — a piece of equipment that holds slides and pushes them into a projector
  • sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
  • smear campaign — a campaign to tarnish the reputation of a public figure, especially by vilification or innuendo.
  • smelling salts — a preparation for smelling, essentially of ammonium carbonate with some agreeable scent, used as a stimulant and restorative.
  • smoking jacket — a loose-fitting jacket for men, often of a heavy fabric and trimmed with braid, worn indoors, especially as a lounging jacket.
  • snifting valve — a valve for releasing small quantities of steam, compressed air, or condensate, as from the cylinder of a steam engine.
  • social evening — a social gathering for the purpose of promoting companionship, communal activities, etc
  • socioreligious — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of religious and social factors.
  • soft margarine — a soft, spreadable margarine that is made with more liquid oils and less hydrogenated oils than hard, block margarine
  • soldering iron — an instrument for melting and applying solder.
  • solid geometry — the geometry of solid figures; geometry of three dimensions.
  • something else — sth different
  • something like — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • something's up — something is amiss
  • sorting office — postal
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