13-letter words containing s, t, a, g, n
- significative — serving to signify.
- significatory — serving to signify
- single combat — combat between two persons.
- single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- single market — a market consisting of a number of nations, esp those of the European Union, in which goods, capital, and currencies can move freely across borders without tariffs or restrictions
- single parent — mother or father without a partner
- single status — a national agreement that aims to avoid unfairness in pay and reward arrangements for employees and to ensure harmonisation of conditions in comparable posts
- single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
- single-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work only in one direction. Compare double-acting (def 1).
- single-action — (of a firearm) requiring the cocking of the hammer before firing each shot: a single-action revolver.
- single-masted — (of a boat) having a single mast
- 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.
- single-seater — a vehicle that has only one seat
- singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
- skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- skin grafting — the transplanting of healthy skin from the patient's or another's body to a wound or burn, to form new skin.
- slave trading — trafficking in people
- slip trailing — the act of decorating an object with a poured stream of slip.
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- smoking stand — an ashtray mounted on a low pedestal, often placed next to an armchair, sofa, etc.
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
- space heating — the heating of a limited area, as a room, by means of a heater (space heater) within the area.
- 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.
- speed skating — ice skating as a form of racing, usually on an oval course and against other competitors or the clock.
- spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
- spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
- sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna
- splitting adz — a heavy stone tool used by prehistoric peoples in northwestern North America and northeastern Asia.
- sporting lady — a prostitute.
- sportscasting — the reporting of a sports event by radio or television broadcast.
- spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
- st. augustine — Saint, a.d. 354–430, one of the Latin fathers in the early Christian Church; author; bishop of Hippo in N Africa.
- staff meeting — company gathering of employees
- stage manager — a person responsible for the technical details of a theatrical production, assisting the director during rehearsal, supervising the lighting, costuming, setting, prompting, etc., and assuming full responsibility for the stage during a performance of a play.
- stage setting — setting (def 6).
- stagecoachman — the driver or operator of a stagecoach
- staghorn fern — any of several epiphytic Old World ferns of the genus Platycerium, having broad, often antlerlike leaves and cultivated as a houseplant.
- stained glass — glass that has been colored, enameled, painted, or stained, especially by having pigments baked onto its surface or by having various metallic oxides fused into it, as used in church windows, decorative lampshades, etc.
- stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
- standing army — a permanently organized military force maintained by a nation.
- standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
- standing crop — the totality of living things in an ecosystem at a given time.
- standing joke — If something is a standing joke among a group of people, they often make jokes about it.
- standing jump — a jump performed from a stationary position without a run-up
- standing room — space in which to stand, as in a theater, stadium, or the like.
- standing wave — a wave in a medium in which each point on the axis of the wave has an associated constant amplitude ranging from zero at the nodes to a maximum at the antinodes.