13-letter words containing s, p, a, g, h
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- press charges — make formal accusation
- presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
- prosopography — a study of a collection of persons or characters, especially their appearances, careers, personalities, etc., within a historical, literary, or social context.
- pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
- 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.
- pythian games — (in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd )
- reprographics — reprography.
- rough passage — a stormy sea journey
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
- selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
- shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
- shaking palsy — Parkinson's disease.
- shaped charge — a warhead having a concave, hollow end and operating on the Munroe effect.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- sheepshearing — an act or instance of shearing sheep.
- shell program — A shell program is a basic computer program that provides a framework within which the user can develop the program to suit their own needs.
- shipping lane — sea lane.
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- shopping mall — mall (def 1).
- souphanouvong — Prince, 1909–1995, Laotian political leader: president 1975–86 (half brother of Prince Souvanna Phouma).
- space heating — the heating of a limited area, as a room, by means of a heater (space heater) within the area.
- spaghettilike — resembling spaghetti
- spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- speech making — act of addressing the public formally
- speechreading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
- sperm washing — a technique that separates sperm from the seminal fluid, used especially for isolating active sperm for artificial insemination.
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna
- sphagnum moss — Botany
- spine-bashing — to rest; loaf.
- splanchnology — the visceral system
- spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
- stage whisper — a loud whisper on a stage, meant to be heard by the audience.
- standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
- steganography — the practice of concealing messages in such a way that only the sender and the recipient know that there is a message
- stereographer — a person who takes stereoscopic photographs.
- straighten up — stand straighter
- stratigraphic — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
- sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
- supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
- symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
- taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence