13-letter words containing s, p, h, r, a, g
- paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
- parma heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- passager hawk — young hawk or falcon caught while on migration
- phantasmagory — phantasmagoria.
- pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
- pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
- pharyngoscopy — an examination by means of a pharyngoscope.
- phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
- photo-sharing — the publishing of digital photographs on the internet
- phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
- physiographic — the science of physical geography.
- plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
- power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- thigh-slapper — a very funny joke, remark, story, or incident.
- training ship — a ship equipped for training novices in seamanship, as for naval service.
- transshipping — to transfer from one ship, truck, freight car, or other conveyance to another.