13-letter words containing t, a, g, h
- 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.
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- 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.
- rotary plough — an implement with a series of blades mounted on a power-driven shaft, used to break up soil or weeds
- run the gamut — The gamut of something is the complete range of things of that kind, or a wide variety of things of that kind.
- sage thrasher — a grayish-brown thrasher, Oreoscoptes montanus, of sagebrush regions of the western U.S.
- sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- saurognathous — related to or resembling the Saurognathae family of birds that possess palate bones similar to those in saurians or lizards
- scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
- 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
- set at naught — to have disregard or scorn for; disdain
- seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
- 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.
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- 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
- show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
- 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
- slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
- 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
- spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna
- stage whisper — a loud whisper on a stage, meant to be heard by the audience.
- stagecoachman — the driver or operator of a stagecoach
- staghorn fern — any of several epiphytic Old World ferns of the genus Platycerium, having broad, often antlerlike leaves and cultivated as a houseplant.
- stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.