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

  • oscillography — a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.
  • overachieving — Present participle of overachieve.
  • 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.
  • periwig chair — a chair of c1700 having a high, caned back with an elaborately carved cresting.
  • pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
  • pharmacologic — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
  • pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
  • pharyngoscopy — an examination by means of a pharyngoscope.
  • 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
  • photoallergic — photosensitive.
  • physiographic — the science of physical geography.
  • 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.
  • psychographic — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
  • 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.
  • radical right — the faction representing extreme right-wing political views; ultraconservatives; reactionaries.
  • 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 chair — a chair mounted on rockers or springs so as to permit a person to rock back and forth while sitting.
  • 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.
  • saratoga chip — potato chip.
  • scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
  • 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.
  • shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
  • 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
  • spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • 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
  • straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • stratigraphic — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
  • sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
  • 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.
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