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13-letter words containing s, k, e, i, g

  • masking piece — a flat, curtain, or other piece of scenery for concealing a part of a stage from the audience.
  • message stick — a stick bearing carved symbols, carried by a native Australian as identification
  • noise masking — the use of noise to cancel out another sound, as with a white noise machine.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
  • quaking aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
  • quick-setting — setting quickly, as a cement, paint, or gelatin.
  • quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
  • register mark — any of several marks incorporated onto printing plates to assist in the accurate positioning of images during printing
  • ring-streaked — having streaks or bands of color around the body.
  • rocking horse — a toy horse, as of wood, mounted on rockers or springs, on which children may ride; hobbyhorse.
  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • rocking stone — any fairly large rock so situated on its base that slight forces can cause it to move or sway.
  • settling tank — a tank for holding liquid until particles suspended in it settle.
  • sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
  • shepherd king — any of the Hyksos kings.
  • single market — a market consisting of a number of nations, esp those of the European Union, in which goods, capital, and currencies can move freely across borders without tariffs or restrictions
  • single ticket — a one-way ticket.
  • single wicket — a rare form of cricket in which only one wicket is used.
  • single-decker — A single-decker or a single-decker bus is a bus with only one deck.
  • singlesticker — a vessel, especially a sloop or cutter, having one mast.
  • sinking spell — a temporary decline, as in health or market values: Wall Street is over its sinking spell.
  • skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
  • skiing resort — a place which provides accommodation and facilities for skiing such as skiing trails, slopes, etc, esp for people who go there to take skiing holidays
  • skin magazine — a magazine containing pornographic images
  • skipping rope — A skipping rope or skip rope is a piece of rope, usually with handles at each end. You exercise or play with it by turning it round and round and jumping over it.
  • skipping-rope — Also, jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • spaghettilike — resembling spaghetti
  • speaking part — a part in which the character speaks scripted dialogue
  • speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
  • speaking type — a device on a medal or coin that has a punning reference to a person or thing.
  • speech making — act of addressing the public formally
  • speed skating — ice skating as a form of racing, usually on an oval course and against other competitors or the clock.
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • spelling book — an elementary textbook or manual to teach spelling
  • spelling-book — a person who spells words.
  • spring a leak — to develop a leak
  • standing joke — If something is a standing joke among a group of people, they often make jokes about it.
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • stewing steak — Stewing steak is beef which is suitable for cooking slowly in a stew.
  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
  • the big smoke — a large city, esp London
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