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13-letter words containing p, h, o, t, a, g

  • phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
  • phytopathogen — an organism that causes disease in plants
  • plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
  • plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
  • pneumatograph — pneumograph.
  • point shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
  • point-shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
  • polythene bag — a bag made of polythene, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
  • post exchange — a retail store on an army installation that sells goods and services to military personnel and their dependents and to certain authorized civilian personnel. Abbreviation: PX.
  • potato blight — fungal disease affecting potatoes
  • presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
  • pterylography — the description of the feather arrangement on birds
  • quota-hopping — (in the EU) the practice of obtaining the right to catch a part of a country's national quota for fish in European waters by buying licences from its fishermen
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • rotary plough — an implement with a series of blades mounted on a power-driven shaft, used to break up soil or weeds
  • saratoga chip — potato chip.
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
  • spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna
  • 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.
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • telephone tag — repeated unsuccessful attempts by two persons to connect with one another by telephone.
  • thanatography — an account or story of a person's death experience
  • the paleogene — the Paleogene subdivision of the Tertiary Period or its rocks
  • thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
  • to go apeshit — to become crazy, enraged, or out of control
  • topographical — the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
  • toxicophagous — poison-eating
  • typographical — of or relating to typography.
  • upright piano — a piano with an upright rectangular body and with its strings running vertically. Compare spinet (def 1).
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