13-letter words containing g, e, t, h, s, a
- octagon house — a type of American house, c. 1850, having an octagonal perimeter to reduce exterior wall area.
- orchestrating — Present participle of orchestrate.
- organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
- orthogonalise — to make (vectors, functions, etc.) orthogonal.
- orthographies — Plural form of orthography.
- ostreophagous — oyster-eating
- palos heights — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
- parma heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
- phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
- plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
- post exchange — a retail store on an army installation that sells goods and services to military personnel and their dependents and to certain authorized civilian personnel. Abbreviation: PX.
- presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
- 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 )
- sage thrasher — a grayish-brown thrasher, Oreoscoptes montanus, of sagebrush regions of the western U.S.
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
- self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- 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
- set at naught — to have disregard or scorn for; disdain
- seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
- sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
- 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
- slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- south georgia — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
- space heating — the heating of a limited area, as a room, by means of a heater (space heater) within the area.
- spaghettilike — resembling spaghetti
- spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- stage whisper — a loud whisper on a stage, meant to be heard by the audience.
- stagecoachman — the driver or operator of a stagecoach
- staghorn fern — any of several epiphytic Old World ferns of the genus Platycerium, having broad, often antlerlike leaves and cultivated as a houseplant.
- stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
- steam heating — a heating system utilizing steam circulated through radiators and pipes.
- steganography — the practice of concealing messages in such a way that only the sender and the recipient know that there is a message
- stereographer — a person who takes stereoscopic photographs.
- straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- straight time — the time or number of hours established as standard for a specific work period in a particular industry, usually computed on the basis of a workweek and fixed variously from 35 to 40 hours.
- straight-edge — advocating abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and sex and sometimes advocating vegetarianism.
- 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