12-letter words containing s, l, i, p, n, g
- sporangiolum — a small sporangium
- spot welding — fusing metal
- spotlighting — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
- spring-clean — to subject (a place) to a spring-cleaning.
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- stool pigeon — a pigeon used as a decoy.
- stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- suckling pig — piglet not yet weaned
- supercooling — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
- supportingly — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- surpassingly — of a large amount or high degree; exceeding, excelling, or extraordinary: structures of surpassing magnificence.
- surprisingly — causing surprise, wonder, or astonishment.
- swine plague — hemorrhagic septicemia of hogs, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella suiseptica, characterized by an accompanying infection of pneumonia.
- talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
- teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
- unaspiringly — in an unambitious or unaspiring manner
- unpleasingly — in an unpleasing manner
- valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
- whaling ship — a ship engaged in whaling
- whisperingly — In a whispering manner; quietly.
- wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler