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13-letter words containing c, a, l, t, h

  • play catch-up — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
  • polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
  • polycythaemia — an abnormal condition of the blood characterized by an increase in the number of red blood cells. It can occur as a primary disease of unknown cause (polycythaemia vera or erythraemia) or in association with respiratory or circulatory diseases
  • polytechnical — relating to a technical school
  • postholocaust — following a holocaust
  • prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
  • psychoanalyst — a person trained to practice psychoanalysis.
  • psychotically — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
  • public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
  • pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
  • pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • radical right — the faction representing extreme right-wing political views; ultraconservatives; reactionaries.
  • ratchet wheel — a wheel, with teeth on the edge, into which a pawl drops or catches, as to prevent reversal of motion or convert reciprocating motion into rotatory motion.
  • reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
  • richter scale — a scale, ranging from 1 to 10, for indicating the intensity of an earthquake.
  • rochelle salt — a white crystalline double salt, sodium potassium tartrate, used in Seidlitz powder. Formula: KNaC4H4O6.4H2O
  • royal charter — authorization by the monarchy
  • saccharolytic — of or causing the hydrolysis of sugars.
  • saddle-stitch — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
  • scandal sheet — a newspaper or magazine that emphasizes scandal or gossip.
  • scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
  • schematically — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
  • scholasticate — a course of study for seminarians, taken prior to their theological studies.
  • scholasticism — (sometimes initial capital letter) the system of theological and philosophical teaching predominant in the Middle Ages, based chiefly upon the authority of the church fathers and of Aristotle and his commentators.
  • schoolteacher — a teacher in a school, especially in one below the college level.
  • schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
  • sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.
  • scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
  • scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
  • scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
  • self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
  • semi-mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
  • share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
  • shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
  • singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
  • sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
  • slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
  • solar chariot — (in ancient Egypt) a chariot placed in the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
  • sophistically — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
  • space shuttle — any of several U.S. space vehicles consisting of a reusable manned orbiter that touches down on a landing strip after an orbital mission, two reusable solid rocket boosters that drop off after initial ascent, and an expendable external tank containing liquid propellants.
  • steeplechaser — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • sympatholytic — opposing the effects of stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
  • tachyphylaxis — Medicine/Medical. immediate, temporary immunization against the effects of injection of a toxic extract owing to previous small injections of the same extract.
  • talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
  • tax schedules — the different ways of classifying income under tax law
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