13-letter words containing s, i, n, g, u, l
- magnoliaceous — belonging to the plant family Magnoliaceae.
- mistrustingly — In a mistrusting manner.
- mud wrestling — sport: physical combat in mud
- mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
- mule spinning — a process of spinning that produces extremely fine yarn by drawing and twisting the roving, and winding the resultant yarn onto a bobbin or spindle in the form of a cop.
- mulligan stew — a stew made of odd bits of meat and vegetables, esp. as prepared by hobos
- multi-tasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- multilinguist — A speaker of multiple languages; a polyglot.
- multiskilling — the practice of training employees to do a number of different tasks
- neurolinguist — One who studies neurolinguistics.
- neurosurgical — Of, or pertaining to neurosurgery.
- nonleguminous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or bearing legumes.
- nonlinguistic — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
- numerologists — the study of numbers, as the figures designating the year of one's birth, to determine their supposed influence on one's life, future, etc.
- numismatology — Numismatics.
- nun's veiling — a thin, plain-woven, worsted fabric, originally for nuns' veils but now also for dresses, coats, etc.
- outstandingly — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
- pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
- questioningly — In a questioning manner.
- rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
- religiousness — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
- school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
- self-assuming — taking too much for granted; presumptuous.
- self-doubting — lacking in confidence
- serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
- shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
- sign language — Also called sign. any of several visual-gestural systems of communication, especially employing manual gestures, as used among deaf people.
- silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
- single sculls — a race for sculls each rowed by one oarsman using a pair of oars.
- single status — a national agreement that aims to avoid unfairness in pay and reward arrangements for employees and to ensure harmonisation of conditions in comparable posts
- single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
- single-suiter — one-suiter.
- single-tongue — to play (any nonlegato passage) on a wind instrument by obstructing and uncovering the air passage through the lips with the tongue
- single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
- singular noun — A singular noun is a noun such as 'standstill' or 'vicinity' that does not have a plural form and always has a determiner such as 'a' or 'the' in front of it.
- sleeping suit — an all-in-one outfit that babies and young children sleep in
- slimming club — a group of people who meet regularly and are all trying to lose weight
- solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
- soul-stirring — arousing excitement and enthusiasm; uplifting
- sounding lead — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
- sounding line — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
- sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- spinning mule — mule1 (def 7).
- splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
- spring squill — a European liliaceous plant Scilla verna, having small blue or purple flowers