13-letter words containing s, p, a, i, n
- septentrional — northern; boreal
- sexploitation — the exploitation of sex in films, magazines, etc.
- shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
- shakespearian — of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
- shaking palsy — Parkinson's disease.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- sheep station — a large sheep farm
- sheepshearing — an act or instance of shearing sheep.
- ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- shipping lane — sea lane.
- shop chairman — a unionized employee elected to represent a shop, department, or the like, in dealings with an employer.
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- shopping mall — mall (def 1).
- sign of peace — the liturgical practice of giving a sign of peace, union, or friendship, as a handshake or embrace, at some point in a Christian service, esp. in a Mass or Communion service
- single parent — mother or father without a partner
- single-parent — of or noting a family in which a parent brings up a child or children alone, without a partner: a single-parent family; a single-parent household.
- sino-japanese — having to do with both China and Japan
- sinumbra lamp — an unshaded sperm-oil lamp consisting of a translucent glass globe supported on a pedestal: a form of astral lamp.
- skepticalness — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- skip distance — the minimum distance along the earth's surface between the position of a short-wave transmitter and the region where its signal is received after one reflection from the ionosphere.
- sleeping area — an area in a room or house where people can sleep
- slip trailing — the act of decorating an object with a poured stream of slip.
- slipper satin — a fine satin fabric with a mat finish
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
- snap the whip — crack the whip (def 2).
- snap-brim hat — a hat brim that can be turned up or down.
- sneak preview — a preview of a motion picture, often shown in addition to an announced film, in order to observe the reaction of the audience.
- soup-and-fish — a man's formal evening clothes.
- soupfin shark — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
- space fiction — a book, film, TV series, etc, set in outer space
- space heating — the heating of a limited area, as a room, by means of a heater (space heater) within the area.
- space science — any of the sciences involved in space travel or the exploration of space, as space medicine.
- space station — an orbiting manned structure that can be used for a variety of purposes, as to assemble or service satellites, refuel spacecraft, etc.
- spanish broom — a spiny, often leafless shrub, Genista hispanica, of the legume family, native to southern Europe, having clustered, golden-yellow flowers and hairy pods.
- spanish cedar — a tropical American tree, Cedrela odorata, of the mahogany family.
- spanish onion — a large-sized, mild, succulent onion, often eaten raw.
- spanish river — a river in S Ontario, Canada, flowing S into the North Channel of Lake Huron. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- spanish topaz — citrine (def 2).
- spark erosion — a method of machining using a shaped electrode which erodes the workpiece by an electric spark discharge between itself and the workpiece
- sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
- spastic colon — a chronic condition of recurring abdominal pain with constipation or diarrhoea or both
- 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.
- special agent — an investigator in a law enforcement agency.
- special needs — learning difficulties
- specific name — the second part in the name of a species, such as norvegicus in Rattus norvegicus