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13-letter words containing n, i, c, h, g

  • nonce-bashing — violent attacks against rapists, child molesters, or sexual offenders, esp inside a prison
  • nonpathogenic — Pathology. capable of producing disease: pathogenic bacteria.
  • north chicago — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan.
  • oceanographic — the branch of physical geography dealing with the ocean.
  • onychophagist — the practice of biting one's nails, especially when done habitually and as a symptom of emotional disturbance.
  • orchestrating — Present participle of orchestrate.
  • outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
  • overachieving — Present participle of overachieve.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
  • pathogenicity — the disease-producing capacity of a pathogen.
  • pathognomonic — Medicine/Medical. characteristic or diagnostic of a specific disease: a pathognomonic sign of pneumonia.
  • perching bird — any member of the avian order Passeriformes.
  • 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.
  • phyllogenetic — of or relating to the development of leaves.
  • pitching tool — a masonry chisel for rough work
  • psychogenesis — genesis of the psyche.
  • psychogenetic — genesis of the psyche.
  • psychotogenic — a substance that causes a psychotic reaction.
  • reading chair — a chair of the 18th century having an adjustable reading stand attached to the back and a crest rail extending forward on both sides to form armrests, designed to be sat on facing the back.
  • receding chin — if somebody has a receding chin, it does not stick out and appears to slope backwards, giving the appearance of a weak jawline
  • regime change — the transition from one political regime to another, esp through concerted political or military action
  • reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
  • riding school — a place where equitation is taught.
  • right section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane perpendicular to its longest axis.
  • rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
  • rocking chair — a chair mounted on rockers or springs so as to permit a person to rock back and forth while sitting.
  • 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.
  • rolling hitch — a hitch on a spar or the like, composed of two round turns and a half hitch so disposed as to jam when a stress is applied parallel to the object on which the hitch is made.
  • sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht
  • schizogenesis — reproduction by fission.
  • schizogenetic — reproducing or formed by fission.
  • school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
  • scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
  • scorchingness — the state or quality of being scorching
  • scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
  • 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.
  • section eight — a military discharge for physical or mental unfitness as determined by an Army Regulation in effect from 1922 to 1944.
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
  • shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
  • shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
  • sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
  • shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
  • 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
  • shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
  • shocking pink — a vivid or intensely bright pink.
  • shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
  • singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
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