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13-letter words containing r, h, e, i, n, g

  • organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
  • orthogonalise — to make (vectors, functions, etc.) orthogonal.
  • orthogonalize — to make (vectors, functions, etc.) orthogonal.
  • outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
  • overachieving — Present participle of overachieve.
  • overbreathing — hyperventilation
  • overnight bag — a travel bag large enough to hold personal articles and clothing for an overnight trip.
  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
  • path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
  • pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
  • perching bird — any member of the avian order Passeriformes.
  • pharyngealize — to pronounce with pharyngeal coarticulation.
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • return flight — a flight going back
  • right section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane perpendicular to its longest axis.
  • 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.
  • righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
  • ring the bell — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
  • river fishing — the sport of fishing in rivers
  • 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.
  • rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
  • round herring — any of several herringlike fishes of the family Dussumieriidae having a rounded abdomen, living chiefly in tropical marine waters.
  • runjeet singh — Ranjit Singh.
  • runner's high — a state of euphoria experienced during prolonged running or other forms of aerobic, sustained exercise, attributed to an increase of endorphins in the blood.
  • scorchingness — the state or quality of being scorching
  • 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.
  • self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
  • 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 horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
  • shearing gang — a group of itinerant workers who contract to shear, class, and bale a farmer's wool clip
  • shearing shed — a farm building equipped with power machinery for sheepshearing and equipment for baling wool
  • sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
  • sheepshearing — an act or instance of shearing sheep.
  • shepherd king — any of the Hyksos kings.
  • shivering owl — screech owl.
  • short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
  • siberian high — the prevailing high pressure system over Asia in winter.
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