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13-letter words containing g, e, r, s, h

  • outside-right — a footballer who plays on the outside right wing of the field
  • outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
  • parma heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • passager hawk — young hawk or falcon caught while on migration
  • pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
  • phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
  • phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
  • phytoestrogen — an estrogen-like compound occurring naturally in plants of the legume family and in grains, vegetables, and fruits.
  • plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
  • power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
  • 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).
  • pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
  • psychographer — a person who writes a psychograph; a psychological or psychographic biographer.
  • psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
  • psychosurgery — treatment of mental disorders by means of brain surgery.
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • 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
  • rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
  • reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
  • reprographics — reprography.
  • right section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane perpendicular to its longest axis.
  • righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
  • river fishing — the sport of fishing in rivers
  • rocking horse — a toy horse, as of wood, mounted on rockers or springs, on which children may ride; hobbyhorse.
  • 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.
  • rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
  • rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
  • rough passage — a stormy sea journey
  • rough sleeper — a homeless person who sleeps rough
  • roxburghshire — a historic county in SE Scotland.
  • runjeet singh — Ranjit Singh.
  • runner's high — a state of euphoria experienced during prolonged running or other forms of aerobic, sustained exercise, attributed to an increase of endorphins in the blood.
  • sage thrasher — a grayish-brown thrasher, Oreoscoptes montanus, of sagebrush regions of the western U.S.
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • scorchingness — the state or quality of being scorching
  • screen rights — the rights to make a film version of a book
  • 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 growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
  • selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
  • self-strength — the quality or state of being strong; bodily or muscular power; vigor.
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • serial rights — the rights to reprint or publish a serial or as a serial
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
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