13-letter words containing s, c, r, 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.
- package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
- paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
- passenger car — carriage of a train
- 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.
- physiographic — the science of physical geography.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
- scan register — (electronics, testing) A digital logic circuit which can act either as a flip-flop or as a serial shift register and which is used to form a scan path for testing. The most common design is a multiplexed flip-flop: The other common design is level-sensitive scan design (LSSD).
- scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
- scarlet gilia — skyrocket.
- scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
- scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
- screaming tty — [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters" are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can be substantial.
- 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.
- second-grader — a pupil who is in the second grade
- self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
- serologically — as pertains to or with respect to serology; in a serological manner
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- shaped charge — a warhead having a concave, hollow end and operating on the Munroe effect.
- 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.