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