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13-letter words containing t, a, g, h, i

  • pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
  • phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
  • phone-tapping — Phone-tapping is the activity of listening secretly to someone's phone conversations using special electronic equipment. In most cases phone-tapping is illegal.
  • photo-sharing — the publishing of digital photographs on the internet
  • photo-stating — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
  • photoallergic — photosensitive.
  • photogelatine — relating to photographic processes in which gelatine is used in receiving or transferring prints
  • photographing — a picture produced by photography.
  • photonegative — pertaining to a substance, as selenium, having a conductivity that decreases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
  • phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
  • plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
  • playwrighting — the writing of plays
  • point shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
  • point-shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
  • potato blight — fungal disease affecting potatoes
  • 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 )
  • quota-hopping — (in the EU) the practice of obtaining the right to catch a part of a country's national quota for fish in European waters by buying licences from its fishermen
  • radical right — the faction representing extreme right-wing political views; ultraconservatives; reactionaries.
  • reading light — any small electric light that you use for reading. You can usually move it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading. It can be attached to a wall or shelf in the home, or be above your head inside an aircraft or other vehicle.
  • rhythm guitar — a guitar used to provide rhythm, particularly during a musical ensemble
  • right as rain — perfectly healthy
  • right bracket — (character)   "]". ASCII character 93. Common names: right square bracket; ITU-T: closing bracket; unbracket. Rare: unsquare; INTERCAL: U turn back. Paired with left bracket.
  • right you are — If someone says 'right you are', they are agreeing to do something in a very willing and happy way.
  • right-brained — having the right brain dominant, therefore being more adept at spatial and nonverbal concepts and being more creative and emotional than logical and analytical.
  • sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht
  • saratoga chip — potato chip.
  • scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • serial rights — the rights to reprint or publish a serial or as a serial
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
  • shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
  • shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
  • sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
  • shaving stick — a piece of shaving foam moulded into a slender shape and held in a slender container for ease of application to the face when removing hair with a razor
  • shih huang ti — 259–210 b.c, Chinese emperor c247–210 b.c. initiated the building of the Great Wall of China.
  • shooting star — meteor (def 1b).
  • shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
  • shot-blasting — the cleaning of metal, etc, by a stream of shot
  • shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
  • sight reading — the act or skill of performing unfamiliar written music, or of translating something written in a foreign language, readily on sight, without previous study
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
  • singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • south georgia — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
  • space heating — the heating of a limited area, as a room, by means of a heater (space heater) within the area.
  • spaghettilike — resembling spaghetti
  • sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna
  • stage whisper — a loud whisper on a stage, meant to be heard by the audience.
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