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13-letter words containing g, a, h, n, i, t

  • plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
  • playwrighting — the writing of plays
  • point shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
  • point-shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
  • pythian games — (in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd )
  • quota-hopping — (in the EU) the practice of obtaining the right to catch a part of a country's national quota for fish in European waters by buying licences from its fishermen
  • reading light — any small electric light that you use for reading. You can usually move it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading. It can be attached to a wall or shelf in the home, or be above your head inside an aircraft or other vehicle.
  • right as rain — perfectly healthy
  • right-brained — having the right brain dominant, therefore being more adept at spatial and nonverbal concepts and being more creative and emotional than logical and analytical.
  • sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht
  • scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
  • shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
  • shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
  • shaving stick — a piece of shaving foam moulded into a slender shape and held in a slender container for ease of application to the face when removing hair with a razor
  • shih huang ti — 259–210 b.c, Chinese emperor c247–210 b.c. initiated the building of the Great Wall of China.
  • shooting star — meteor (def 1b).
  • shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
  • shot-blasting — the cleaning of metal, etc, by a stream of shot
  • shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
  • sight reading — the act or skill of performing unfamiliar written music, or of translating something written in a foreign language, readily on sight, without previous study
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
  • singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • space heating — the heating of a limited area, as a room, by means of a heater (space heater) within the area.
  • sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna
  • stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
  • standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
  • steam heating — a heating system utilizing steam circulated through radiators and pipes.
  • stinging hair — sting (def 18).
  • straight-line — (of a machine) having components that are arranged in a row or that move in a straight line when in operation
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
  • swimming bath — swimming pool.
  • synthesis gas — any of several gaseous mixtures consisting essentially of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, used in the synthesis of chemical compounds, as ammonia and alcohols.
  • talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • team teaching — a system whereby two or more teachers pool their skills, knowledge, etc, to teach combined classes
  • technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • thanatologist — a person who engages in the academic study of death and dying
  • the argentine — Argentina
  • the highlands — mountainous region occupying nearly all of the N half of Scotland
  • thermostating — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • third reading — the final step in the consideration of a legislative bill before it is put to a vote.
  • threateningly — tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures.
  • thyroid gland — a two-lobed endocrine gland, located at the base of the neck that secretes two hormones that regulate the rates of metabolism, growth, and development.
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