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13-letter words containing a, c, h, i, s

  • associateship — to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc.: Many people associate dark clouds with depression and gloom.
  • asthmatically — In an asthmatic manner.
  • astrophysical — Of or pertaining to astrophysics.
  • atheistically — pertaining to or characteristic of atheists or atheism; containing, suggesting, or disseminating atheism: atheistic literature; atheistic people.
  • athletic shoe — a shoe designed to be worn for sports, exercising, or recreational activity, as racquetball, jogging, or aerobic dancing.
  • atmospherical — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
  • auction house — a commercial company that specializes in selling items at auction
  • audiographics — audiographic teleconferencing
  • authenticates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of authenticate.
  • autocatharsis — a therapeutic process designed to free unconscious disturbances by having the patient write about his or her experiences, impressions, etc.
  • automechanism — an automatic mechanical system or component, especially a device that operates automatically under predetermined conditions.
  • autorickshaws — Plural form of autorickshaw.
  • autoschediasm — anything done with little forethought or preparation
  • autoschediaze — to do or act with little forethought or preparation
  • back straight — a straight part of a circuit, esp of an athletics track or a racecourse, furthest from the finishing point
  • backstitching — Present participle of backstitch.
  • bag-snatching — theft that involves snatching women's handbags
  • balch springs — a town in NE Texas.
  • baltic shield — the wide area of ancient rock in Scandinavia
  • barber's itch — any of various fungal infections of the bearded portion of the neck and face
  • basic english — a simplified form of English, proposed by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, containing a vocabulary of approximately 850 of the commonest English words, intended as an international language
  • behavioristic — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
  • binary search — (algorithm)   A search algorithm which repeatedly divides an ordered search space in half according to how the required (key) value compares with the middle element. The following pseudo-C routine performs a binary search return the index of the element of vector "thing[first..last]" equal to "target": if (target < thing[first] || target > thing[last]) return NOT_FOUND; while (first < last) { mid = (first+last)/2; /* truncate to integer */ if (target == thing[mid]) return mid; if (target < thing[mid]) last = mid-1; else first = mid+1; } if (target == thing[last]) return last; return NOT_FOUND; (2003-01-14)
  • biphasic pill — a drug with two dosage levels over the period taken, as an oral contraceptive.
  • black english — the group of related dialects of American English spoken variously by many black people in the U.S.
  • blacksmithing — the work of a blacksmith.
  • blanchisseuse — a washer-woman
  • bois de vache — dried buffalo dung, used as fuel by Canadian and U.S. fur trappers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • brachiosaurus — a dinosaur of the genus Brachiosaurus, up to 30 metres long: the largest land animal ever known
  • broca-aphasia — a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Broca's area of the brain, characterized by misarticulated speech and lack of grammatical morphemes.
  • buffalo chips — the dried dung of buffalo used as fuel, especially by early settlers on the western plains.
  • cactus dahlia — a double-flowered variety of dahlia
  • calligraphist — fancy penmanship, especially highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the calligraphy of the 18th century.
  • callisthenics — light exercises designed to promote general fitness, develop muscle tone, etc
  • candidateship — candidature
  • cape crawfish — an edible South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii.
  • cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
  • cardinal fish — a small brightly coloured fish found in shallow tropical seas, of the family Apogonidae, the male of which often broods eggs in its mouth
  • cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
  • casehardening — Present participle of caseharden.
  • cash dealings — transactions that are carried out using cash
  • cash discount — a discount granted to a purchaser who pays before a stipulated date
  • cash holdings — the assets that you hold in ready cash, as opposed to property, shares, bonds, etc
  • cash receipts — the money a business receives from its customers over a specified period
  • cash register — A cash register is a machine in a shop, pub, or restaurant that is used to add up and record how much money people pay, and in which the money is kept.
  • cashew family — the plant family Anacardiaceae, typified by trees, shrubs, or vines having resinous and sometimes poisonous juice, alternate leaves, small flowers, and a nut or fleshy fruit, and including the cashew, mango, pistachio, poison ivy, and sumac.
  • casing hanger — A casing hanger is the part of a wellhead that supports the casing string.
  • casting couch — a couch on which a casting director is said to seduce women seeking a part in a film or play
  • casting wheel — a wheel having on its circumference molds for receiving molten metal.
  • cat's whisker — a pointed wire used to make contact with the crystal in a crystal radio receiver
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