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