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13-letter words containing s, t, a, g, n

  • rising action — a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.
  • roasting jack — a rotating spit for roasting meat on
  • rogation days — Usually, rogations. Ecclesiastical. solemn supplication, especially as chanted during procession on the three days (Rogation Days) before Ascension Day.
  • romanticising — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
  • running start — Sports. a start, as in the hop, step, and jump or the running broad jump, in which a contestant begins moving before reaching the starting or take-off point.
  • safety margin — something required to ensure safety
  • saint gregory — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
  • saint-gaudens — Augustus, 1848–1907, U.S. sculptor, born in Ireland.
  • sales meeting — briefing of sales representatives
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • salpingostomy — the formation of an artificial opening into a Fallopian tube.
  • sanctifyingly — in a sanctifying manner
  • sand painting — the ceremonial practice among Navaho and Pueblo Indians of creating symbolic designs on a flat surface with varicolored sand.
  • sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht
  • santo domingo — a republic in the West Indies, occupying the E part of the island of Hispaniola. 19,129 sq. mi. (49,545 sq. km). Capital: Santo Domingo.
  • saurognathous — related to or resembling the Saurognathae family of birds that possess palate bones similar to those in saurians or lizards
  • savings ratio — the ratio of personal savings to disposable income, esp using the difference between national figures for disposable income and consumer spending as a measure of savings
  • savings stamp — a stamp which can be bought (for example at a machine in a supermarket), saved, and then redeemed against the cost of goods later (for example at Christmas)
  • scan register — (electronics, testing)   A digital logic circuit which can act either as a flip-flop or as a serial shift register and which is used to form a scan path for testing. The most common design is a multiplexed flip-flop: The other common design is level-sensitive scan design (LSSD).
  • scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
  • scintillating — animated; vivacious; effervescent: a scintillating personality.
  • screaming tty — [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters" are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can be substantial.
  • segmentalized — separated into parts, sections, elements, classes, etc.; compartmentalized: a segmentalized society.
  • segregational — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • self-negating — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
  • self-standing — An object or structure that is self-standing is not supported by other objects or structures.
  • self-starting — starter (def 3).
  • self-training — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
  • set at naught — to have disregard or scorn for; disdain
  • settling tank — a tank for holding liquid until particles suspended in it settle.
  • seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
  • sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
  • shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
  • shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • shaving stick — a piece of shaving foam moulded into a slender shape and held in a slender container for ease of application to the face when removing hair with a razor
  • shih huang ti — 259–210 b.c, Chinese emperor c247–210 b.c. initiated the building of the Great Wall of China.
  • shooting star — meteor (def 1b).
  • shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
  • shot-blasting — the cleaning of metal, etc, by a stream of shot
  • shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
  • sight reading — the act or skill of performing unfamiliar written music, or of translating something written in a foreign language, readily on sight, without previous study
  • signalization — to make notable or conspicuous.
  • significantly — important; of consequence.
  • signification — meaning; import; sense.
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