13-letter words containing h, e, l, g, o
- phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
- phyllogenetic — of or relating to the development of leaves.
- plagiocephaly — a deformity of the skull in which one side is more developed in the front, and the other side is more developed in the rear.
- plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
- polygamophile — a person who approves of or countenances polygamy, especially as practiced by others.
- polythene bag — a bag made of polythene, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- pterylography — the description of the feather arrangement on birds
- pull together — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- q-methodology — a statistical methodology used by psychologists to identify alternative world-views, opinions, interpretations, etc, in terms of statistically independent patterns of response recognized by clustering together individuals whose orderings of items, typically attitude statements, are similar
- r-methodology — any statistical methodology in psychology that is contrasted with Q-methodology
- ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- remythologize — to mythologize anew, to make a new mythological system out of (an existing one)
- rheologically — in a rheological manner
- right to life — When people talk about an unborn baby's right to life, they mean that a baby has the right to be born, even if it has a severe disability or if its mother does not want it.
- right-to-life — pertaining to or advocating laws making abortion, especially abortion-on-demand, illegal; antiabortion: right-to-life advocates.
- rough sleeper — a homeless person who sleeps rough
- 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.
- 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.
- self-soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
- shed light on — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- 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.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
- shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
- show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
- single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- sleep through — If you sleep through something, it does not wake you up.
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- sphingomyelin — any of the class of phospholipids occurring chiefly in the brain and spinal cord, composed of phosphoric acid, choline, sphingosine, and a fatty acid.
- swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
- technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
- technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- technologized — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- telephone tag — repeated unsuccessful attempts by two persons to connect with one another by telephone.
- the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
- the good life — If you say that someone is living the good life, you mean that they are living in comfort and luxury with few problems or worries.
- the long term — the time some years ahead, (as opposed to the immediate future)
- the oligocene — the Oligocene epoch or rock series
- the paleogene — the Paleogene subdivision of the Tertiary Period or its rocks
- the spotlight — the focus of attention
- theologically — of, relating to, or involved with theology: a theological student.
- thong leather — whang2 (def 2).
- thremmatology — the science of breeding or propagating animals and plants under domestication.
- toggle switch — a switch in which a projecting knob or arm, moving through a small arc, causes the contacts to open or close an electric circuit suddenly, as commonly used in most homes.
- twilight zone — the lowest level of the ocean that light can reach.
- tzom gedaliah — a Jewish fast day observed on the third day of the month of Tishri in memory of the treacherous murder of Gedaliah, Jewish governor of Judah appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia.