13-letter words containing u, g, l
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- rogue dialler — a dial-up connection placed on a computer without the user's knowledge which, when the user tries to connect to the internet, automatically connects to a premium-rate phone number
- rotary plough — an implement with a series of blades mounted on a power-driven shaft, used to break up soil or weeds
- rough sleeper — a homeless person who sleeps rough
- roughing mill — a rolling mill for converting steel ingots into blooms, billets, or slabs.
- rubber gloves — gloves made of rubber, worn to protect the hands while washing up, gardening, etc
- rube goldberg — having a fantastically complicated, improvised appearance: a Rube Goldberg arrangement of flasks and test tubes.
- rumelgumption — commonsense
- rumlegumption — commonsense
- running belay — the clipping of the rope through a karabiner attached to a sling, piton, nut, etc, secured to the mountain: used by a leading climber of a team to reduce the length of a possible fall
- running light — any of various lights required to be displayed by a vessel or aircraft operating between sunset and sunrise.
- running title — Printing. running head.
- running total — a running total is a total which changes because numbers keep being added to it as something progresses
- sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
- saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
- self-assuming — taking too much for granted; presumptuous.
- self-doubting — lacking in confidence
- self-judgment — the act or fact of judging oneself.
- semireligious — having a somewhat religious character.
- serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
- shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
- shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
- shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
- sign language — Also called sign. any of several visual-gestural systems of communication, especially employing manual gestures, as used among deaf people.
- silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
- single sculls — a race for sculls each rowed by one oarsman using a pair of oars.
- 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-figure — relating to numbers below ten
- single-suiter — one-suiter.
- single-tongue — to play (any nonlegato passage) on a wind instrument by obstructing and uncovering the air passage through the lips with the tongue
- single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
- singular noun — A singular noun is a noun such as 'standstill' or 'vicinity' that does not have a plural form and always has a determiner such as 'a' or 'the' in front of it.
- skeletogenous — forming a skeleton, or parts of one
- slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
- sleep through — If you sleep through something, it does not wake you up.
- sleeping suit — an all-in-one outfit that babies and young children sleep in
- slimming club — a group of people who meet regularly and are all trying to lose weight
- solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
- solomon gundy — a dish of salted marinated herring in vinegar and spices
- soluble glass — sodium silicate.
- soul-stirring — arousing excitement and enthusiasm; uplifting
- sounding lead — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
- sounding line — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
- sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- spinning mule — mule1 (def 7).
- splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
- spring squill — a European liliaceous plant Scilla verna, having small blue or purple flowers