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13-letter words containing k, h, a, g

  • path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
  • phone hacking — an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
  • 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.
  • right bracket — (character)   "]". ASCII character 93. Common names: right square bracket; ITU-T: closing bracket; unbracket. Rare: unsquare; INTERCAL: U turn back. Paired with left bracket.
  • rocking chair — a chair mounted on rockers or springs so as to permit a person to rock back and forth while sitting.
  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
  • shaking palsy — Parkinson's disease.
  • shark finning — the practice of catching sharks, removing their fins (which are commercially valuable) and throwing the rest of the shark back into the sea (often while it is still alive, but doomed to drown because it cannot swim without its fins)
  • 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
  • shilling mark — a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”.
  • spaghettilike — resembling spaghetti
  • speech making — act of addressing the public formally
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
  • talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
  • tracking shot — dolly shot.
  • trash-talking — disparaging or boastful language used especially to demoralize or intimidate opponents: trash-talking in the locker room.
  • walk with god — to lead a godly, morally upright life
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
  • world-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.
  • yang shangkun — 1907–98, Chinese Communist leader: president 1988–99.
  • zhao kuangyin — Chao K'uang-yin.
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