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13-letter words starting with s

  • 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.
  • skeletogenous — forming a skeleton, or parts of one
  • skepticalness — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
  • sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
  • skew symmetry — symmetry of top left with bottom right, and top right with bottom left
  • skiing resort — a place which provides accommodation and facilities for skiing such as skiing trails, slopes, etc, esp for people who go there to take skiing holidays
  • skill-fulness — having or exercising skill: a skillful juggler.
  • skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
  • skin and bone — You can say someone is just skin and bone when you do not approve of the fact that they are very thin.
  • skin friction — the friction acting on a solid body when it is moving through a fluid
  • skin grafting — the transplanting of healthy skin from the patient's or another's body to a wound or burn, to form new skin.
  • skin magazine — a magazine containing pornographic images
  • skin reaction — an irritation or inflammation of the skin due to an allergy or infection, brought about by natural means or by a skin test.
  • skip distance — the minimum distance along the earth's surface between the position of a short-wave transmitter and the region where its signal is received after one reflection from the ionosphere.
  • skipping rope — A skipping rope or skip rope is a piece of rope, usually with handles at each end. You exercise or play with it by turning it round and round and jumping over it.
  • skipping-rope — Also, jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.
  • skittle alley — a place where the game of skittles is played
  • skull session — a meeting for the purpose of discussion, exchange of ideas, solving problems, etc.
  • skunk cabbage — a low, fetid, broad-leaved North American plant, Symplocarpus foetidus, of the arum family, having a brownish-purple and green mottled spathe surrounding a stout spadix, growing in moist ground.
  • sky-blue pink — a jocular name for a nonexistent, unknown, or unimportant colour
  • slàinte mhath — a drinking toast; cheers
  • slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
  • slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
  • slatted floor — a floor made with slats of wood so that water can drain away
  • slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
  • slave trading — trafficking in people
  • slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
  • sleep hygiene — the habits conducive to getting the right amount and quality of sleep
  • sleep through — If you sleep through something, it does not wake you up.
  • sleeping area — an area in a room or house where people can sleep
  • sleeping pill — a pill or capsule containing a drug for inducing sleep.
  • sleeping suit — an all-in-one outfit that babies and young children sleep in
  • slender loris — loris (def 1).
  • slice of life — accurate depiction of reality
  • slice-of-life — of, relating to, or being a naturalistic, unembellished representation of real life: a play with slice-of-life dialogue.
  • slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
  • sliding scale — a variable scale, especially of industrial costs, as wages, that may be adapted to changes in demand.
  • slieve donard — a mountain in SE Northern Ireland, in the Mourne Mountains: highest peak in Northern Ireland. Height: 853 m (2798 ft)
  • slimming club — a group of people who meet regularly and are all trying to lose weight
  • slimming diet — a diet with the aim of losing weight
  • slip carriage — a railway car detached from a moving train as it passes through a station.
  • slip trailing — the act of decorating an object with a poured stream of slip.
  • slipper chair — a small bedroom chair with a low seat.
  • slipper satin — a fine satin fabric with a mat finish
  • slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • sloane ranger — a member of a trendy and acquisitive set of largely upper-middle-class young people of London, England.
  • slotted spoon — a large spoon whose bowl has several slots or holes for draining liquid from food being ladled.
  • slow dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another over a period of about three of four seconds
  • slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
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