13-letter words containing s, i, n, g, l
- hornswoggling — Present participle of hornswoggle.
- hospitalizing — Present participle of hospitalize.
- housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- ignominiously — marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating: an ignominious retreat.
- illogicalness — The quality of being illogical.
- in all things — In all things means in every situation and at all times.
- in full swing — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
- incognoscible — (rare, dated) Not capable of being known; incomprehensible.
- incongruously — out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.
- incorrigibles — Plural form of incorrigible.
- indigo squill — wild hyacinth.
- insectologist — a person who studies insectology
- insinuatingly — tending to instill doubts, distrust, etc.; suggestive: an insinuating letter.
- inspiritingly — In an inspiriting manner.
- insulinogenic — Promoting the production of insulin.
- integral test — the theorem that a given infinite series converges if the function whose value at each integer is the corresponding term in the series is decreasing, tends to zero, and results in a finite number when integrated from one to infinity.
- intelligences — Plural form of intelligence.
- interestingly — engaging or exciting and holding the attention or curiosity: an interesting book.
- interglacials — Plural form of interglacial.
- internalising — Present participle of internalise.
- interreligous — Between religions.
- irish english — the English language as spoken in Ireland; Hiberno-English.
- irregularness — Quality of being irregular.
- irreligionist — One who is irreligious.
- isoagglutinin — an agglutinin that can effect isoagglutination.
- isogonal line — an imaginary line, or one drawn on a map, connecting all points of equal magnetic declination.
- james gosling — (person) The software engineer who wrote GOSMACS, and served as Sun Microsystems, Inc. project leader for both NeWS, and Java. He is currently (1997) a Vice President and "Distinguished Engineer" at Sun.
- john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
- judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
- juggling eggs — Keeping a lot of state in your head while modifying a program. "Don't bother me now, I'm juggling eggs", means that an interrupt is likely to result in the program's being scrambled. In the classic first-contact SF novel "The Mote in God's Eye", by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, an alien describes a very difficult task by saying "We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity." See also hack mode.
- kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
- killing frost — the occurrence of temperatures cold enough to kill all but the hardiest vegetation, especially the last such occurrence in spring and the first in fall, events that limit the agricultural growing season.
- killing spree — a series of murders that are committed
- kinesiologist — the science dealing with the interrelationship of the physiological processes and anatomy of the human body with respect to movement.
- king's yellow — a yellow or red crystalline substance, As 2 S 3 , occurring in nature as the mineral orpiment, and used as a pigment (king's yellow) and in pyrotechnics.
- kingsley amis — Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
- klipspringers — Plural form of klipspringer.
- kriss kringle — Santa Claus.
- labiogression — location of the anterior teeth forward of their natural position.
- labour-saving — A labour-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
- land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
- landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
- landing speed — the minimum air speed at which an aircraft lands safely
- landing stage — a floating platform used as a wharf.
- landing strip — airstrip.
- lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
- languishingly — In a languishing manner.
- laryngologist — A person who studies or specializes in laryngology; a subspeciality of otorhinolaryngology.