13-letter words containing s, l, o, g
- strangulation — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
- strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
- subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
- subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- 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.
- sugar of lead — lead acetate.
- sugar of milk — lactose.
- suicidologist — someone who studies suicidology
- superregional — involving many regions
- surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
- swift-flowing — moving rapidly
- swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
- swimming pool — a tank or large artificial basin, as of concrete, for filling with water for swimming.
- syllogistical — relating to a syllogism
- symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
- synchronology — combined chronology
- syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
- systematology — the science of systems or their formation.
- taylor's gold — a variety of pear from New Zealand
- technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- telediagnosis — the detection of a disease by evaluating data transmitted to a receiving station from instruments monitoring a distant patient, as someone in a spacecraft.
- thanatologist — a person who engages in the academic study of death and dying
- the spotlight — the focus of attention
- toggle switch — a switch in which a projecting knob or arm, moving through a small arc, causes the contacts to open or close an electric circuit suddenly, as commonly used in most homes.
- ugly customer — a hostile or dangerous person.
- unambiguously — plainly, clearly
- undiagnosable — unable to be diagnosed
- unpromisingly — in a manner that is not showing any promise of favourable development or future success
- uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
- ustilagineous — belonging to the Ustilaginales, an order of fungi that cause plant disease
- vaccinologist — the science of vaccine development.
- venereologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
- vexillologist — the study of flags.
- victimologist — the study of crime victims and the psychological effects of being a victim.
- virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
- volcanologist — the scientific study of volcanoes and volcanic phenomena.
- volsunga saga — an Icelandic saga of the late 13th century, concerning the family of the Volsungs, the theft of the cursed treasure of Andvari, the adventures of Sigurd, his wooing of Brynhild, his enchantment and marriage to Gudrun, and his eventual murder.
- volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
- wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
- wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- wellingtonias — Plural form of wellingtonia.
- whitlow grass — any of various plants of the genera Draba and Erophila, once thought to cure whitlows: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- willing horse — a person prepared to work hard
- willow grouse — a N European grouse, Lagopus lagopus, with a reddish-brown plumage and white wings: now regarded as the same species as the red grouse (L. lagopus scoticus) of Britain
- wool classing — the grading and grouping together of similar types of wool
- working class — those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
- world-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.