13-letter words containing g, o, s, h, a
- ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
- reprographics — reprography.
- 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.
- rough as bags — uncouth
- rough passage — a stormy sea journey
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- saurognathous — related to or resembling the Saurognathae family of birds that possess palate bones similar to those in saurians or lizards
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
- selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- shadow boxing — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.
- shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
- shell program — A shell program is a basic computer program that provides a framework within which the user can develop the program to suit their own needs.
- 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.
- shopping mall — mall (def 1).
- shot-blasting — the cleaning of metal, etc, by a stream of shot
- show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
- small holding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- souphanouvong — Prince, 1909–1995, Laotian political leader: president 1975–86 (half brother of Prince Souvanna Phouma).
- 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).
- spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna
- sphagnum moss — Botany
- splanchnology — the visceral system
- 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.
- standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
- 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.
- straightforth — straight or directly forward
- sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
- symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
- taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
- thanatologist — a person who engages in the academic study of death and dying
- that's enough — You say 'that's enough' to tell someone, especially a child, to stop behaving in a silly, noisy, or unpleasant way.
- the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
- 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.
- thorough bass — figured bass.
- timothy grass — a coarse grass, Phleum pratense, having cylindrical spikes, used as fodder.
- to go apeshit — to become crazy, enraged, or out of control
- toxicophagous — poison-eating
- tracking shot — dolly shot.
- training shoe — Training shoes are the same as trainers.