13-letter words containing a, c, h, e, n, s
- psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
- rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
- rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
- rose of china — China rose (def 2).
- saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
- sandwich beam — flitch beam.
- sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
- sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
- scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
- scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
- scandal sheet — a newspaper or magazine that emphasizes scandal or gossip.
- scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
- schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
- schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
- scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- search engine — a computer program that searches documents, especially on the World Wide Web, for a specified word or words and provides a list of documents in which they are found.
- seed merchant — someone that collects, packages and sells seeds
- seneschalship — the office or position of a seneschal
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- share account — a savings account in a credit union.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
- shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
- ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- shock and awe — US military: use of extreme force
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
- slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
- snake charmer — an entertainer who seems to charm venomous snakes, usually by music.
- southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- space heating — the heating of a limited area, as a room, by means of a heater (space heater) within the area.
- spanish cedar — a tropical American tree, Cedrela odorata, of the mahogany family.
- speech island — a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
- speech making — act of addressing the public formally
- 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.
- splanchnocele — a primitive embryonic body cavity
- spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
- stagecoachman — the driver or operator of a stagecoach
- stamp machine — a machine used for stamping documents, as with the time, etc
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
- synecdochical — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
- synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).