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12-letter words containing s, t, i, n, g, l

  • saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
  • scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
  • scatteringly — in a scattering manner
  • school night — any night of the week that precedes a day of school
  • scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
  • seating plan — layout of seats at a venue or on transport
  • segmentalize — to make segmentalized.
  • self-antigen — autoantigen.
  • self-basting — (of a turkey) prepared with oil or butter to remain moist when cooked in an oven.
  • self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
  • self-pitying — Someone who is self-pitying is full of self-pity.
  • self-tanning — cosmetic substance applied to the skin to simulate a suntan
  • self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet
  • selling rate — the rate at which a bank is willing to sell foreign currency
  • semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
  • servant girl — a girl or woman employed as a servant who performs household duties
  • setting rule — a metal strip used in the hand-setting of type in a composing stick to separate the line being set from the previous one
  • sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
  • single entry — an item noted only once.
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-digit — of or denoting a percentage smaller than ten, especially with reference to rates below that level: single-digit rates of inflation.
  • single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
  • single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • sitting bull — 1834–90, American Indian warrior: leader of the Hunkpapa; victor at Little Bighorn, 1876.
  • skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
  • slant height — (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base.
  • sliding seat — a rower's seat that rides on wheels in metal tracks fastened to the boat's frame, allowing the seat to slide back and forth, thereby tapping the rower's leg strength to maximize the stroke.
  • slip casting — a pottery-making process in which partially liquefied clay is poured into a plaster mold.
  • slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
  • smotheringly — in a smothering manner
  • soft landing — space vehicle
  • spongioblast — one of the primordial cells in the embryonic brain and spinal cord capable of developing into neuroglia.
  • spongologist — a person who studies sponges
  • spot welding — fusing metal
  • spotlighting — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
  • sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
  • staggeringly — tending to stagger or overwhelm: a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.
  • static cling — the adhering of clothing to other clothing or a person's body, caused by an accumulation of static electricity in the materials, especially those containing synthetic fibers.
  • sterlingness — the state of being sterling or having the quality of sterling
  • stockingless — not wearing or having stockings
  • stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
  • stool pigeon — a pigeon used as a decoy.
  • storm signal — a visual signal, as a flag, giving advance notice of a heavy storm, used especially along coastal areas.
  • storytelling — the telling or writing of stories.
  • streamlining — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
  • string along — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
  • stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
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