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13-letter words starting with s

  • singing hinny — a type of currant cake popular in NE England which, when cooked on a griddle, makes a singing noise
  • singing voice — the musical quality of a voice when a person is singing
  • 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 mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single parent — mother or father without a partner
  • 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 thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
  • single ticket — a one-way ticket.
  • single wicket — a rare form of cricket in which only one wicket is used.
  • 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-barrel — a gun having one barrel, especially a shotgun.
  • single-celled — having or containing a single cell
  • single-decker — A single-decker or a single-decker bus is a bus with only one deck.
  • single-family — designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.
  • single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
  • single-handed — accomplished or done by one person alone: a single-handed victory; single-handed sailing.
  • single-masted — (of a boat) having a single mast
  • single-minded — having or showing a single aim or purpose: a single-minded program.
  • 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
  • single-storey — (of a building) having only one floor or level
  • 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.
  • singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
  • singlesticker — a vessel, especially a sloop or cutter, having one mast.
  • 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.
  • sinistrocular — favoring the left eye, rather than the right, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to dextrocular).
  • sinking spell — a temporary decline, as in health or market values: Wall Street is over its sinking spell.
  • sino-japanese — having to do with both China and Japan
  • sinterability — the capacity to be sintered
  • sinumbra lamp — an unshaded sperm-oil lamp consisting of a translucent glass globe supported on a pedestal: a form of astral lamp.
  • sinus sabaeus — an area in the southern hemisphere and near the equator of Mars, appearing dark when viewed telescopically from the earth.
  • siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
  • sir-reverence — (used as an expression of apology, as before unseemly or indelicate words.)
  • sirloin steak — cut of beef
  • sister carrie — a novel (1900) by Theodore Dreiser.
  • sister school — a university or college which is financially, historically or socially linked to another
  • sister-in-law — the sister of one's husband or wife.
  • sit well with — to be agreeable to
  • site-specific — created, designed, or selected for a specific site: a site-specific sculpture.
  • sitting judge — a presiding judge; a judge in office
  • situationally — manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment: The situation of the house allowed for a beautiful view.
  • siwalik hills — (Siwalik Range) a range in N India, S Nepal, and N Pakistan, in the S Himalaya Mountains.
  • six-yard line — the line marking the limits of the goal area
  • sixty-seventh — next after the sixty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 67.
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