13-letter words containing s, p, r, i, n, g
- grease pencil — a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.
- growing pains — If a person or organization suffers from growing pains, they experience temporary difficulties and problems at the beginning of a particular stage of development.
- guttersnipish — Resembling or characteristic of a guttersnipe.
- hairsplitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
- heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
- horsewhipping — Present participle of horsewhip.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
- impersonating — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- impoverishing — Present participle of impoverish.
- inspiritingly — In an inspiriting manner.
- interspersing — Present participle of intersperse.
- introspecting — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
- killing spree — a series of murders that are committed
- klipspringers — Plural form of klipspringer.
- landing strip — airstrip.
- laryngoscopic — Of or pertaining to laryngoscopy.
- letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
- mastigophoran — Also, mastigophore [mas-ti-guh-fawr, -fohr] /ˈmæs tɪ gəˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr/ (Show IPA). a protozoan of the phylum Mastigophora.
- measuring cup — a graduated cup used especially in cooking for measuring ingredients.
- megasporangia — a sporangium containing megaspores.
- miami springs — a town in SE Florida, near Miami.
- misperceiving — Present participle of misperceive.
- morphogenesis — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
- mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
- myringoplasty — (surgery) The closure of the perforation of pars tensa of the tympanic membrane.
- nailing strip — a strip of wood or other partly yielding material attached to a hard surface, as of steel or concrete, so that objects may be nailed to the surface.
- nitroso group — the univalent group O=N–.
- nonpractising — of or relating to a person who no longer observes or pursues his or her religious faith
- ocean springs — a town in SE Mississippi.
- open registry — ship registration under a national flag available to all ships regardless of nationality.
- opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
- organotropism — Physiology. the attraction of microorganisms or chemical substances to particular organs or tissues of the body.
- outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
- pan-germanism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
- pangrammatist — a writer of pangrams
- 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.
- paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- paramagnetism — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
- paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
- parking strip — Chiefly Upper Midwest and Western U.S. parkway (def 2).
- parting strip — a strip, as of wood, used to keep two parts separated, as one in each side of the frame of a window to keep the sashes apart when lowered or raised.
- perseveringly — displaying perseverance; resolutely persistent; steadfast: a persevering student.
- photo-sharing — the publishing of digital photographs on the internet
- pigeon breast — chicken breast.
- pilsner-glass — a pale, light lager beer.
- 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.
- playing cards — cards used in playing various games, arranged in decks of four suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs): a standard deck has 52 cards
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.