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12-letter words containing sing

  • roughhousing — the act of behaving in a boisterous or rough way
  • scat singing — singing in which the singer substitutes improvised nonsense syllables for the words of a song, and tries to sound and phrase like a musical instrument.
  • sea crossing — a journey by sea from one coast to another
  • self-closing — the end or conclusion, as of a speech.
  • self-raising — a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
  • singableness — the quality of being singable
  • singing game — a children's game in which the players perform certain actions to the words of a song.
  • single blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which the researchers but not the subjects know which subjects are receiving the active medication or treatment and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias, as the placebo effect, from the test results.
  • single cream — dairy product: thin or light cream
  • single entry — an item noted only once.
  • single modal — modal (def 3).
  • single rhyme — a rhyme of monosyllables, as in heart, part.
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which the researchers but not the subjects know which subjects are receiving the active medication or treatment and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias, as the placebo effect, from the test results.
  • single-cross — a cross between two inbred lines.
  • single-digit — of or denoting a percentage smaller than ten, especially with reference to rates below that level: single-digit rates of inflation.
  • single-ended — (of a boiler) fired from one end only.
  • single-issue — pertaining or devoted to one public issue only, especially a political one: single-issue voters.
  • single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
  • single-payer — noting or relating to a healthcare or health insurance system in which the government or a publicly owned and regulated agency pays all medical costs from a single fund.
  • single-phase — noting or pertaining to a circuit having an alternating current with one phase or with phases differing by 180°.
  • single-space — to type (copy) on each line space.
  • 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.
  • specialising — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
  • strategising — to make up or determine strategy; plan.
  • surpassingly — of a large amount or high degree; exceeding, excelling, or extraordinary: structures of surpassing magnificence.
  • surprisingly — causing surprise, wonder, or astonishment.
  • top dressing — tennis court
  • torch singer — a singer, especially a woman, who specializes in singing torch songs.
  • traumatising — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
  • unmoralising — not moralising
  • unpleasingly — in an unpleasing manner
  • unpossessing — having no possessions or ownership
  • unsurprising — predictable, expected
  • wackyparsing — (Internet, slang) present participle of wackyparse.
  • womb-leasing — bearing a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child; surrogacy
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