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11-letter words containing s, i, n, g, l, e

  • searchingly — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
  • seigneurial — a lord, especially a feudal lord.
  • seigniorial — of or relating to a seignior.
  • selaginella — any club moss of the genus Selaginella, having stems covered in small pointed leaves and small spore-bearing cones: family Selaginellaceae
  • self-acting — acting by itself; automatic.
  • self-giving — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
  • self-hating — harbouring feelings of self-hatred
  • self-ignite — to ignite without spark or flame.
  • self-making — the act of a person or thing that makes: The making of a violin requires great skill.
  • self-moving — capable of moving without an external agency.
  • self-rising — rising without the addition of leaven: self-rising pancake flour.
  • self-ruling — of or relating to self-rule
  • send flying — to dismiss or cause to depart hurriedly
  • sewing silk — finely twisted silk thread used for sewing, embroidery, etc.
  • sex linkage — an association between genes in sex chromosomes such that the characteristics determined by these genes appear more frequently in one sex than in the other.
  • sex-linkage — an association between genes in sex chromosomes such that the characteristics determined by these genes appear more frequently in one sex than in the other.
  • shaving gel — product that softens hair growth for shaving
  • shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
  • shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
  • shiveringly — in a shivering manner, usually from cold or fright
  • shriekingly — with shrieking
  • side glance — a look sideways at someone or something
  • side-glance — a glance directed to the side; an oblique or sideways look: a side-glance of displeasure at her interrupter.
  • side-lining — a line at the side of something.
  • sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
  • single bond — a chemical linkage consisting of one covalent bond between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by one line or two vertical dots, as C–H or C:H.
  • single file — a line of persons or things arranged one behind the other; Indian file.
  • single knot — overhand knot.
  • single malt — a type of whisky that is made at a single distillery and from one type of malted grain
  • single room — hotel room for one person
  • single tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
  • single whip — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
  • single-foot — rack3 (def 1).
  • single-hand — to sail (a craft) without help from others.
  • single-hung — (of a window) having two sashes, only one of which is movable.
  • single-knit — a fabric made on warp knit.
  • single-malt — (of whiskey, especially Scotch) made from unblended malt whiskey distilled at one distillery.
  • single-shot — (of a firearm) requiring loading before each shot; not having or using a cartridge magazine.
  • single-step — to perform a single instruction on (a program), generally under the control of a debug program
  • single-wide — a mobile home used as a permanent residence.
  • singles bar — a bar or tavern catering to a clientele composed chiefly of single men and women, especially those seeking a lover or spouse.
  • singlestick — a short, heavy stick.
  • singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • singularize — to make singular.
  • singulative — a grammatical form or construction that expresses a singular entity or indicates that an individual is singled out from a group, especially as opposed to a collective noun, as snowflake as opposed to snow.
  • slaveringly — in a slavering manner
  • smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
  • snorkelling — the activity of swimming with a snorkel
  • solid angle — an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting in a common point or formed at the vertex of a cone.
  • sovereignly — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
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