10-letter words containing s, i, g
- showcasing — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
- shuddering — trembling or quivering with fear, dread, cold, etc.
- shuttering — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- shylocking — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- sialagogic — encouraging salivary flow.
- sialagogue — sialagogic (def 1).
- sialogogue — sialagogic (def 1).
- side judge — a referee who works on the side of the field and watches the receiver to ensure nothing illegal happens
- side-light — an item of incidental information.
- siegecraft — the science or skill of conducting a siege
- siegeworks — constructions built by a besieging force
- sight-read — Someone who can sight-read can play or sing music from a printed sheet the first time they see it, without practising it beforehand.
- sighthound — gazehound.
- sigillarid — a fossilized, tree-like plant of the genus Sigillaria
- sign-posts — a post bearing a sign that gives information or guidance.
- signal box — a railway signal tower.
- signal red — pimento (def 3).
- signalling — the action of generating or transmitting signals
- signalment — a detailed description, especially of distinctive features, of a person for identification, usually for police purposes.
- signifiant — signifier (def 2).
- signifying — sounding1 (def 4)
- signorelli — Luca [loo-kah] /ˈlu kɑ/ (Show IPA), c1445–1523, Italian painter.
- signposted — A place or route that is signposted has signposts beside the road to show the way.
- silica gel — a highly adsorbent gelatinous form of silica, used chiefly as a dehumidifying and dehydrating agent.
- silk gland — any of several glands, as in various insects and spiders, that secrete a viscid protein substance which hardens into silk on contact with air.
- silkgrower — a person who breeds silkworms for their silk
- silver age — Classical Mythology. the second of the four ages of humankind, inferior to the golden age but superior to the bronze age that followed: characterized by an increase of impiety and of human weakness.
- silverberg — Robert, born 1935, U.S. science-fiction writer.
- silverling — a shekel or small silver coin
- sing along — an informal or unrehearsed singing of songs by a group of people, usually under the direction of a leader; songfest.
- sing-along — an informal or unrehearsed singing of songs by a group of people, usually under the direction of a leader; songfest.
- singhalese — Sinhalese
- single bed — bed for one person
- single man — an individual checker restricted to forward moves, as contrasted with a king.
- single out — only one in number; one only; unique; sole: a single example.
- single tax — a tax, as on land, that constitutes the sole source of public revenue.
- single-cut — noting a file having a series of parallel cutting ridges in one direction only.
- single-end — accommodation consisting of a single room
- single-sex — designated for, pertaining to, or serving only males or only females: a single-sex college.
- single-use — made to be used once only
- singlehood — the status of being unmarried.
- singleness — the state or quality of being single.
- singletree — whiffletree.
- singularly — extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
- sinologist — a person who specializes in Sinology.
- siphonogam — a plant that is pollinated by siphonogamy
- siren song — a dangerously attractive, esp. seductive, proposal or offer
- sizzlingly — in a sizzling manner
- skid a rig — If you skid a rig, you slide it from one well hole to another.
- skimmingly — by way of skimming; superficially