13-letter words containing s, i, l, e, r
- slipper chair — a small bedroom chair with a low seat.
- slipper satin — a fine satin fabric with a mat finish
- slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- small calorie — Thermodynamics. calorie (def 1a).
- social circle — a group of people who are socially connected
- social credit — the doctrine that under capitalism there is an inadequate distribution of purchasing power, for which the remedy lies in governmental control of retail prices and the distribution of national dividends to consumers.
- social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
- social worker — sb who assists local community
- solar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
- solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
- special offer — bargain
- special order — A special order is an extra order or an order for an item specially requested by a customer.
- special-order — to obtain by specific individual order: to special-order a dining-room chandelier.
- spectral line — a line in a spectrum due to the absorption or emission of light at a discrete frequency.
- spider flower — cleome
- spine-chiller — a book, film, etc, that arouses terror
- spinning reel — a fishing reel mounted on a spinning rod, having a stationary spool on the side of which is a revolving metal arm that catches the line and winds it onto the spool as a handle is turned, the metal arm being disengaged during casting so the line spirals freely off the spool, carried by the cast lure.
- spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
- spiny lobster — any of several edible crustaceans of the family Palinuridae, differing from the true lobsters in having a spiny shell and lacking the large pincers.
- spiral nebula — (formerly) a spiral galaxy.
- splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
- splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
- splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
- spoiler party — a third political party formed to draw votes away from one of the two major parties, thus spoiling its chance of winning an election.
- sporopollenin — an inert, tough polymer forming the resistant outer coat of a pollen grain or spore.
- sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- spreadability — capable of being spread; easily spread: a soft, spreadable cheese.
- sprightliness — animated or vivacious; lively.
- spring a leak — to develop a leak
- spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
- spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
- sprint medley — a medley relay in which the first member of a team runs 440 yards, the second and third members run 220 yards each, and the fourth member runs 880 yards.
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner
- square splice — a scarf joint between two pieces, having the form of a half-lap joint with a thicker and a thinner section for each piece, the thicker one being at the end: used to resist tension.
- squirrel away — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
- squirrel cage — a cage containing a cylindrical framework that is rotated by a squirrel or other small animal running inside of it.
- squirrel corn — an American plant, Dicentra canadensis, of the fumitory family, having yellow roots resembling kernels of corn, finely dissected leaves, and clusters of drooping, heart-shaped, cream-colored flowers.
- stader splint — a splint consisting of an adjustable metal rod with a steel pin at either end for insertion in the bone above and below a fracture.
- starring role — a main role; the main role
- starting line — marking at beginning of a race
- steering lock — an anti-theft device
- stentoriously — stentorian.
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- stereological — of, relating to, stereology
- stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- sterilization — the act of sterilizing.