13-letter words containing c, a, r, g, e, n
- paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
- parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
- 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.
- passenger car — carriage of a train
- pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
- pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
- placer mining — mining of placer deposits by washing, dredging, or other hydraulic methods
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- pre-cognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
- precipitating — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- preganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
- presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
- prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
- product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
- prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
- racing driver — someone who drives a racing car in motor car races
- racing pigeon — a pigeon bred and trained for the sport of pigeon racing
- raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
- reacquainting — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
- 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.
- reciprocating — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- recognitional — an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.
- recording van — a van containing sound and image recording equipment, used as a mobile recording studio
- regime change — the transition from one political regime to another, esp through concerted political or military action
- regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
- relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- resting place — grave
- revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- riding jacket — coat worn for horse-riding
- rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
- rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
- scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
- scan register — (electronics, testing) A digital logic circuit which can act either as a flip-flop or as a serial shift register and which is used to form a scan path for testing. The most common design is a multiplexed flip-flop: The other common design is level-sensitive scan design (LSSD).
- scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
- screaming tty — [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters" are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can be substantial.
- 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.
- second-grader — a pupil who is in the second grade
- self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
- spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
- tangoreceptor — a receptor stimulated by touch.
- tracing paper — a thin, transparent paper for making tracings.
- travel agency — a business that accommodates travelers, as by securing tickets, arranging for reservations, and giving information.