13-letter words starting with s
- saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
- saint peter's — a basilica in Vatican City: dome designed by Michelangelo.
- saint vincent — Saint, died a.d. 304, Spanish martyr: patron saint of winegrowers.
- saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
- saint-émilion — a dry claret wine from the parish of St.-Émilion in the Bordeaux region of France.
- saint-étienne — a river in France, flowing NW and W into the Atlantic: the longest river in France. 625 miles (1005 km) long.
- saint-exupery — Antoine de [ahn-twan duh] /ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1900–45, French author and aviator.
- saint-gaudens — Augustus, 1848–1907, U.S. sculptor, born in Ireland.
- saint-laurent — Louis Stephen [lwee ste-fen] /lwi stɛˈfɛn/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, prime minister of Canada 1948–57.
- saint-nazaire — a seaport in W France, on the Loire estuary.
- saint-quentin — a city in N France, on the Somme: retaken from the Germans 1918.
- salad servers — kitchen utensils used as tongs to serve salad
- salad spinner — a utensil used for drying washed salad or vegetables that consists of a plastic basket inside a plastic bowl. The salad is placed in the basket and the outer bowl is then spun using a device such as a gear-operated handle or pull cord, and this spinning then separates water from the salad.
- salary earner — someone who earns a fixed regular payment made by an employer, often monthly, for professional or office work as opposed to manual work
- salary review — the, often annual, assessment or review of the salary or paid to an employee, where decisions are taken on whether the employee's pay should be increased, etc
- saleleaseback — leaseback.
- sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
- sales leaflet — a leaflet or brochure used by a company to promote its goods, products, or services to the public
- sales manager — leader of a sales team
- sales meeting — briefing of sales representatives
- sales receipt — slip or document: proof of payment
- sales revenue — the gross income for a business derived from sales of its products or services
- salmon ladder — a series of steps in a river designed to enable salmon to bypass a dam and move upstream to their breeding grounds
- salmonellosis — food poisoning caused by consumption of food contaminated with bacteria of the genus Salmonella, characterized by the sudden onset of abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, and fever.
- saloon keeper — a person who owns or operates a saloon.
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- salpingostomy — the formation of an artificial opening into a Fallopian tube.
- salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
- salviniaceous — relating to the genus Salviniaceae
- salwar kameez — long tunic worn over a pair of baggy trousers
- sample letter — an example of a particular type of letter intended to show people how to construct their own letter
- sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
- samuel slater — Samuel, 1768–1835, U.S. industrialist, born in England.
- san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
- san francisco — a seaport in W California, on San Francisco Bay: earthquake and fire 1906; United Nations Conference 1945.
- san ildefonso — a town in central Spain, near Segovia: termed the “Spanish Versailles” for its 18th-century palace (La Granja) treaty 1800.
- san juan hill — a hill in SE Cuba, near Santiago de Cuba: captured by U.S. forces in battle during the Spanish-American War in 1898.
- san luis peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,014 feet (4271 meters).
- san pablo bay — the N part of San Francisco Bay, in W California.
- san sebastian — a seaport in N Spain: resort.
- sanctifyingly — in a sanctifying manner
- sanctimonious — making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.: They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.
- sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
- sand bluestem — a grass, Andropogon hallii, native to the Great Plains, used as a cover crop for sand dunes.
- sand painting — the ceremonial practice among Navaho and Pueblo Indians of creating symbolic designs on a flat surface with varicolored sand.
- sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht
- sandfly fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in hot, dry areas, characterized by fever, eye pain, and sometimes a rash, transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus.
- sandwich beam — flitch beam.
- sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
- sandwich coin — a coin having a layer of one metal between outside layers of another, as a quarter with a layer of copper between layers of silver.