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13-letter words containing c, a, r, g, h, e

  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
  • core handling — Core handling is the way that a core is dealt with to make sure it maintains its properties for testing.
  • corn exchange — A corn exchange is a large building where, in former times, grain was bought and sold.
  • counterchange — to change parts, qualities, etc
  • countercharge — a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser
  • court hearing — an official meeting held in court
  • cryptographer — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
  • curb exchange — American Stock Exchange.
  • cytopharynges — Plural form of cytopharynx.
  • daughter cell — either of the two cells that result from the division of a cell, as in mitosis
  • demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
  • discographies — Plural form of discography.
  • dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
  • electrographs — Plural form of electrograph.
  • encephalogram — An image, trace, or other record of the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
  • enfranchising — Present participle of enfranchise.
  • ergatomorphic — pertaining to an ergatomorph
  • ethnographica — a collection of ethnographic items
  • exchange rate — relative value of currency
  • fire watching — the job of watching for fires, especially those caused by aerial bombardment
  • free reaching — sailing on a free reach.
  • french guiana — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
  • french guinea — former name of Guinea.
  • galactorrhoea — (British spelling) alternative spelling of galactorrhea.
  • gangster chic — a cinematic or literary genre which seeks to glamorize the criminal underworld
  • garbage chute — sloped channel for rubbish disposal
  • garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
  • garter stitch — a basic knitting pattern that produces an evenly pebbled texture on both sides of the work, created by consistently knitting or purling every stitch of every row.
  • gastrohepatic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and the liver.
  • gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
  • global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters
  • goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
  • googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
  • grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
  • grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
  • graphemically — In terms of or by means of graphemes.
  • graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
  • grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
  • green channel — the route followed in passing through customs in an airport, etc by passengers claiming to have no dutiable goods to declare
  • green machine — A computer or peripheral device that has been designed and built to military specifications for field equipment (that is, to withstand mechanical shock, extremes of temperature and humidity, and so forth). Comes from the olive-drab "uniform" paint used for military equipment.
  • gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • hack together — (jargon)   To throw something together so it will work. Unlike "kluge together" or "cruft together", this does not necessarily have negative connotations.
  • heortological — of or relating to heortology
  • herb of grace — rue2 .
  • herb-of-grace — rue2 .
  • heterogametic — (of a species or individual organism) having two unlike gametes.
  • heterographic — Misspelled; of or pertaining to an incorrect spelling or a spelling that differs from accepted standards.
  • heterological — (grammar) Of an adjective, not describing itself.
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