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

  • plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
  • plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
  • polygamophile — a person who approves of or countenances polygamy, especially as practiced by others.
  • polythene bag — a bag made of polythene, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
  • potato blight — fungal disease affecting potatoes
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • psychological — of or relating to psychology.
  • pterylography — the description of the feather arrangement on birds
  • ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • rheologically — in a rheological manner
  • rotary plough — an implement with a series of blades mounted on a power-driven shaft, used to break up soil or weeds
  • scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
  • selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • 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 mall — mall (def 1).
  • 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
  • small holding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna
  • splanchnology — the visceral system
  • symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
  • 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.
  • thanatologist — a person who engages in the academic study of death and dying
  • the paleogene — the Paleogene subdivision of the Tertiary Period or its rocks
  • theologically — of, relating to, or involved with theology: a theological student.
  • thong leather — whang2 (def 2).
  • thremmatology — the science of breeding or propagating animals and plants under domestication.
  • thyroid gland — a two-lobed endocrine gland, located at the base of the neck that secretes two hormones that regulate the rates of metabolism, growth, and development.
  • topographical — the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
  • touch-in-goal — the area at each end of the field outside of a touch-in-goal line.
  • typographical — of or relating to typography.
  • tzom gedaliah — a Jewish fast day observed on the third day of the month of Tishri in memory of the treacherous murder of Gedaliah, Jewish governor of Judah appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia.
  • untheological — not theological; not of or pertaining to the nature of theology
  • walk with god — to lead a godly, morally upright life
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
  • watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
  • whitlow grass — any of various plants of the genera Draba and Erophila, once thought to cure whitlows: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
  • world-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.
  • wrongheadedly — In a wrongheaded manner.
  • xylographical — Xylographic.
  • zone-leaching — A horizon.
  • zygapophyseal — one of the four processes of a vertebra, occurring in pairs that interlock each vertebra with the vertebrae above and below.
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