13-letter words containing s, e, g, h
- chasse gardee — a private hunting preserve.
- cheese grater — an implement for grating cheese
- cheeseburgers — Plural form of cheeseburger.
- cheesemongers — Plural form of cheesemonger.
- chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
- chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
- chicago steak — a strip steak or, sometimes, a shell steak.
- chicago style — a style of jazz flourishing in Chicago especially in the early 1920s, constituting a direct offshoot of New Orleans style, and differing from its predecessor chiefly in the diminished influence of native folk sources, the greater tension of its group improvisation, the increased emphasis on solos, and the regular use of the tenor saxophone as part of the ensemble.
- cigarette ash — the ash created by smoking a cigarette
- clear-sighted — If you describe someone as clear-sighted, you admire them because they are able to understand situations well and to make sensible judgments and decisions about them.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- collieshangie — a quarrel
- core strength — the strength of the underlying muscles of the torso, which help determine posture
- counterweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterweigh.
- countinghouse — a building, room, or office used for keeping books and transacting business
- crosschecking — Present participle of crosscheck.
- cruiserweight — A cruiserweight is another name for a light heavyweight.
- cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
- cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
- cytopharynges — Plural form of cytopharynx.
- dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
- das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- deemphasizing — Present participle of deemphasize.
- dehydrogenase — an enzyme, such as any of the respiratory enzymes, that activates oxidation-reduction reactions by transferring hydrogen from substrate to acceptor
- delightedness — The quality of being delighted; great pleasure.
- demythologise — to divest of mythological or legendary attributes or forms, as in order to permit clearer appraisal and understanding: to demythologize the music dramas of Richard Wagner for modern listeners.
- dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
- dermographism — dermatographia.
- dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- discographies — Plural form of discography.
- disenchanting — Present participle of disenchant.
- disheartening — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- disinheriting — Present participle of disinherit.
- distinguished — made conspicuous by excellence; noted; eminent; famous: a distinguished scholar. Synonyms: renowned, illustrious.
- distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- distinguishes — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- dizzy heights — If you say that someone has reached the dizzy heights of something, you are emphasizing that they have reached a very high level by achieving it.
- downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
- dragon's head — any of several mints of the genus Dracocephalum having spikes of double-lipped flowers.
- drongo shrike — any insectivorous songbird of the family Dicruridae, of the Old World tropics, having a glossy black plumage, a forked tail, and a stout bill
- early english — pertaining to the first style of Gothic architecture in England, ending in the latter half of the 13th century, characterized by the use of lancet arches, plate tracery, and narrow openings.
- earth-goddess — a goddess of fertility and vegetation.
- eastern ghats — a mountain range in S India, parallel to the Bay of Bengal: united with the Western Ghats by the Nilgiri Hills; forms the E margin of the Deccan plateau
- eating habits — the way a person or group eats, considered in terms of what types of food are eaten, in what quantities, and when
- echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
- ecophysiology — the branch of physiology that deals with the physiological processes of organisms with respect to their environment.
- ecopsychology — A form of psychology based on integration with the natural world rather than with society.
- edging shears — shears that are used to trim the edges of a lawn