13-letter words containing c, h, i, n, g, o
- countinghouse — a building, room, or office used for keeping books and transacting business
- court hearing — an official meeting held in court
- cove lighting — indirect lighting directed upward from an interior cornice or the like toward a cove at the edge of the ceiling.
- crosschecking — Present participle of crosscheck.
- crosshatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
- cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
- cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
- dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
- dichotomising — Present participle of dichotomise.
- dichotomizing — Present participle of dichotomize.
- duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
- echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
- ethnographica — a collection of ethnographic items
- faction fight — a fight between rival Black groups, usually originating in tribal or clan feuds
- fighting cock — a gamecock.
- folding chair — a chair that can be collapsed flat for easy storage or transport.
- forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
- gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
- genetotrophic — pertaining to nutrition and genetics
- goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
- gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
- gonochoristic — Of or pertaining to gonochorism.
- gopher client — (networking) A program which runs on your local computer and provides a user interface to the Gopher protocol and to gopher servers. Web browsers can act as Gopher clients and simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary terminals, the X Window System, GNU Emacs, and other systems.
- grain alcohol — alcohol (def 1).
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
- hacking cough — a harsh, dry and spasmodic cough
- half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
- hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
- herringchoker — a native or resident of any of the Maritime Provinces but especially of New Brunswick.
- heterogenetic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterogenesis.
- historicizing — Present participle of historicize.
- hitching post — a post to which horses, mules, etc., are tied.
- homeschooling — a school set up in the home.
- homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
- homogenetical — of, involving or relating to homogeny
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
- human cloning — the act of producing a human as a clone
- hydrocracking — the cracking of petroleum or the like in the presence of hydrogen.
- hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hypothecating — Present participle of hypothecate.
- iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
- john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- light colonel — a lieutenant colonel.
- logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
- marching song — a song with the rhythm of a march, esp sung by marching soldiers
- matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
- method acting — film, theater: acting approach