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13-letter words containing s, i, n, g, l

  • sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
  • special agent — an investigator in a law enforcement agency.
  • speed dialing — to dial (a telephone number) using speed dial.
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • spelling book — an elementary textbook or manual to teach spelling
  • spelling-book — a person who spells words.
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna
  • sphingomyelin — any of the class of phospholipids occurring chiefly in the brain and spinal cord, composed of phosphoric acid, choline, sphingosine, and a fatty acid.
  • spinning mule — mule1 (def 7).
  • 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.
  • spiral casing — a spiral passage for directing the water from a penstock around a water turbine and into the rotor.
  • spiral spring — a form of spring consisting of a wire coiled in a helix.
  • splitting adz — a heavy stone tool used by prehistoric peoples in northwestern North America and northeastern Asia.
  • splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
  • sporting lady — a prostitute.
  • spot lighting — Spot lighting is lighting directed towards and used to draw attention to a product or display.
  • sprightliness — animated or vivacious; lively.
  • spring a leak — to develop a leak
  • spring squill — a European liliaceous plant Scilla verna, having small blue or purple flowers
  • 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.
  • squanderingly — in a squandering manner
  • stained glass — glass that has been colored, enameled, painted, or stained, especially by having pigments baked onto its surface or by having various metallic oxides fused into it, as used in church windows, decorative lampshades, etc.
  • stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
  • starring role — a main role; the main role
  • starting line — marking at beginning of a race
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • sterling area — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
  • sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
  • stinging-cell — a nematocyst.
  • stingless bee — any of certain social, honey-producing tropical bees of the family Apidae, as of the genus Melipona, having a nonfunctional stinger.
  • stirlingshire — Also called Stirlingshire [stur-ling-sheer, -sher] /ˈstɜr lɪŋˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in central Scotland.
  • stocking loom — a type of knitting machine
  • stone boiling — a primitive method of boiling liquid with heated stones
  • straight-line — (of a machine) having components that are arranged in a row or that move in a straight line when in operation
  • strangulation — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
  • string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
  • string-puller — a person who uses his or her influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
  • strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
  • stultifyingly — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
  • styling brush — a hairbrush used to style or neaten hair
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • subtriangular — almost triangular;not quite triangular
  • 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.
  • sulfur spring — a spring the water of which contains naturally occurring sulfur compounds.
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • superregional — involving many regions
  • supplementing — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
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