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13-letter words containing s, c, a, g

  • oscillographs — Plural form of oscillograph.
  • oscillography — a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.
  • outdistancing — Present participle of outdistance.
  • package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • panic selling — widespread selling of a security or investment, causing sharp price declines. Usually caused by an unexpected event seen to devalue the security.
  • paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
  • passenger car — carriage of a train
  • passing place — a wider place on a narrow road where vehicles can pass
  • perfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which sexual spores are formed, as the asci in the sexual stage of the ascomycete.
  • pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
  • pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
  • pharyngoscopy — an examination by means of a pharyngoscope.
  • phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
  • physiographic — the science of physical geography.
  • physiological — of or relating to physiology.
  • place setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
  • place-setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
  • playing cards — cards used in playing various games, arranged in decks of four suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs): a standard deck has 52 cards
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • polygalaceous — any plant of the genus Polygala, comprising the milkworts.
  • polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
  • 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.
  • postage costs — the cost of having mail delivered
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • press charges — make formal accusation
  • presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
  • prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
  • prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
  • program music — music intended to convey an impression of a definite series of images, scenes, or events.
  • 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.
  • psychological — of or relating to psychology.
  • quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
  • ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • 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
  • regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
  • reprographics — reprography.
  • resting place — grave
  • rising action — a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.
  • roasting jack — a rotating spit for roasting meat on
  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • roger-ducasse — Jean Jules Amable [zhahn zhyl a-ma-bluh] /ʒɑ̃ ʒül aˈma blə/ (Show IPA), 1873–1954, French composer.
  • rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
  • romanticising — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
  • sanctifyingly — in a sanctifying manner
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