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13-letter words containing n, o, h, d, g

  • nothing doing — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
  • oil hardening — to quench (steel) in a bath of oil.
  • orthodiagonal — the axis in a crystal
  • orthohydrogen — the form of molecular hydrogen in which the nuclei of the two hydrogen atoms contained in the molecule have spins in the same direction.
  • pham van dong — 1906–2000, Vietnamese political leader: prime minister of North Vietnam 1955–76 and of unified Vietnam 1976–86.
  • phong shading — (graphics)   A model of how light is reflected from surfaces used extensively in three dimensional graphics to generate visually realistic images.
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
  • post-midnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
  • riding school — a place where equitation is taught.
  • rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
  • rough diamond — gemstone: uncut diamond
  • round herring — any of several herringlike fishes of the family Dussumieriidae having a rounded abdomen, living chiefly in tropical marine waters.
  • second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
  • 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
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • shed light on — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
  • shooting-down — fatal shooting
  • small holding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
  • spiny dogfish — any of several dogfish sharks of the genus Squalus, having a spine in front of each of the two dorsal fins, especially S. acanthias, inhabiting Atlantic coastal waters.
  • standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • technologized — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • the unco guid — narrow-minded, excessively religious, or self-righteous people
  • thyroid gland — a two-lobed endocrine gland, located at the base of the neck that secretes two hormones that regulate the rates of metabolism, growth, and development.
  • to the ground — completely; absolutely
  • underclothing — clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes.
  • unhomogenized — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
  • unneighboured — having no neighbour or neighbours
  • unwithholding — not withholding; giving freely
  • welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
  • wood shavings — shavings of wood, as found in a carpenter's workshop etc
  • world-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.
  • wrongheadedly — In a wrongheaded manner.
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