13-letter words containing r, h, a, g
- prosopography — a study of a collection of persons or characters, especially their appearances, careers, personalities, etc., within a historical, literary, or social context.
- pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
- psychographer — a person who writes a psychograph; a psychological or psychographic biographer.
- psychographic — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- pterylography — the description of the feather arrangement on birds
- public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- radical right — the faction representing extreme right-wing political views; ultraconservatives; reactionaries.
- ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
- rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
- 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.
- rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
- 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.
- reading light — any small electric light that you use for reading. You can usually move it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading. It can be attached to a wall or shelf in the home, or be above your head inside an aircraft or other vehicle.
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- regime change — the transition from one political regime to another, esp through concerted political or military action
- regular graph — (mathematics) A graph in which all nodes have the same degree.
- reprographics — reprography.
- rheologically — in a rheological manner
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- rhyming slang — a form of slang in which a rhyming word or phrase is substituted for the word intended, as Kate and Sidney for steak and kidney or khaki rocks for army socks.
- rhyparography — the painting of still-life, esp of sordid or unpleasant subjects
- rhythm guitar — a guitar used to provide rhythm, particularly during a musical ensemble
- right as rain — perfectly healthy
- 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.
- right you are — If someone says 'right you are', they are agreeing to do something in a very willing and happy way.
- right-brained — having the right brain dominant, therefore being more adept at spatial and nonverbal concepts and being more creative and emotional than logical and analytical.
- 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.
- rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
- rotary plough — an implement with a series of blades mounted on a power-driven shaft, used to break up soil or weeds
- rough as bags — uncouth
- rough diamond — gemstone: uncut diamond
- rough passage — a stormy sea journey
- run the gamut — The gamut of something is the complete range of things of that kind, or a wide variety of things of that kind.
- sage thrasher — a grayish-brown thrasher, Oreoscoptes montanus, of sagebrush regions of the western U.S.
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- sargassumfish — an olive-brown and black frogfish, Histrio histrio, inhabiting tropical Atlantic and western Pacific seas among floating sargassum weed.
- saurognathous — related to or resembling the Saurognathae family of birds that possess palate bones similar to those in saurians or lizards
- scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
- 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.
- selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- sergeant fish — cobia
- serial rights — the rights to reprint or publish a serial or as a serial
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
- shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
- shaped charge — a warhead having a concave, hollow end and operating on the Munroe effect.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- 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)