13-letter words containing a, c, h, g, e
- orchestrating — Present participle of orchestrate.
- overachieving — Present participle of overachieve.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
- part exchange — If you give an old item in part exchange for something you are buying, the seller accepts the old item as part of the payment, so you do not have to give them as much money.
- pathogenicity — the disease-producing capacity of a pathogen.
- periwig chair — a chair of c1700 having a high, caned back with an elaborately carved cresting.
- pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
- pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
- phlebographic — relating to phlebography or the X-ray imaging of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
- phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
- phone hacking — an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
- photoallergic — photosensitive.
- plagiocephaly — a deformity of the skull in which one side is more developed in the front, and the other side is more developed in the rear.
- post exchange — a retail store on an army installation that sells goods and services to military personnel and their dependents and to certain authorized civilian personnel. Abbreviation: PX.
- powder charge — propellant (def 2).
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- press charges — make formal accusation
- presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
- psychographer — a person who writes a psychograph; a psychological or psychographic biographer.
- public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
- ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
- rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
- reading chair — a chair of the 18th century having an adjustable reading stand attached to the back and a crest rail extending forward on both sides to form armrests, designed to be sat on facing the back.
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- regime change — the transition from one political regime to another, esp through concerted political or military action
- reprographics — reprography.
- rheologically — in a rheological manner
- right bracket — (character) "]". ASCII character 93. Common names: right square bracket; ITU-T: closing bracket; unbracket. Rare: unsquare; INTERCAL: U turn back. Paired with left bracket.
- rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
- rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
- search engine — a computer program that searches documents, especially on the World Wide Web, for a specified word or words and provides a list of documents in which they are found.
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- shaped charge — a warhead having a concave, hollow end and operating on the Munroe effect.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
- singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
- slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
- space heating — the heating of a limited area, as a room, by means of a heater (space heater) within the area.
- spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- speech making — act of addressing the public formally
- 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.
- spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
- stagecoachman — the driver or operator of a stagecoach
- straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
- surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
- talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.