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

  • 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.
  • phototelegram — a telegram that is sent by means of phototelegraphy
  • phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
  • phytopathogen — an organism that causes disease in plants
  • plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
  • plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
  • pneumatograph — pneumograph.
  • 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.
  • polythene bag — a bag made of polythene, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
  • post exchange — a retail store on an army installation that sells goods and services to military personnel and their dependents and to certain authorized civilian personnel. Abbreviation: PX.
  • potato blight — fungal disease affecting potatoes
  • presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
  • pterylography — the description of the feather arrangement on birds
  • 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
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • right you are — If someone says 'right you are', they are agreeing to do something in a very willing and happy way.
  • rotary plough — an implement with a series of blades mounted on a power-driven shaft, used to break up soil or weeds
  • 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
  • scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • 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
  • 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).
  • spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • straightforth — straight or directly forward
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • telephone tag — repeated unsuccessful attempts by two persons to connect with one another by telephone.
  • thanatography — an account or story of a person's death experience
  • thanatologist — a person who engages in the academic study of death and dying
  • that's enough — You say 'that's enough' to tell someone, especially a child, to stop behaving in a silly, noisy, or unpleasant way.
  • the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
  • the high road — the principal road from one place to another
  • the paleogene — the Paleogene subdivision of the Tertiary Period or its rocks
  • the-godfather — a novel (1969) by Mario Puzo.
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