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13-letter words containing a, g, r, n, d, 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.
  • slave trading — trafficking in people
  • slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
  • sound ranging — a method for determining the distance between a point and the position of a sound source by measuring the time lapse between the origin of the sound and its arrival at the point.
  • speechreading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • speed reading — a method of reading faster than normal, esp by skimming
  • sporting lady — a prostitute.
  • spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
  • springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • squanderingly — in a squandering manner
  • standing army — a permanently organized military force maintained by a nation.
  • standing crop — the totality of living things in an ecosystem at a given time.
  • standing room — space in which to stand, as in a theater, stadium, or the like.
  • star-spangled — spangled with stars.
  • starting grid — area marked as start of a race
  • stringer bead — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • student grant — a grant of money awarded to somebody to fund their studying at a university or college
  • sunken garden — a formal garden set below the main level of the ground surrounding it.
  • swedenborgian — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • trading stamp — a stamp with a certain value given as a premium by a retailer to a customer, specified quantities of these stamps being exchangeable for various articles.
  • transgendered — transgender (defs 1, 2).
  • understaffing — the condition of being understaffed or of lacking a number of employees
  • understanding — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • undiscouraged — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
  • undistracting — not distracting; not showy or ostentatious
  • unscavengered — lacking the qualities of having been scavenged
  • visiting card — calling card (def 1).
  • wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
  • weapons-grade — Weapons-grade substances such as uranium or plutonium are of a quality which makes them suitable for use in the manufacture of nuclear weapons.
  • world-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.
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