13-letter words containing c, h, a, i, s
- sophisticated — sophisticated.
- south african — of southern Africa.
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- 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.
- specific heat — the number of calories required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance 1°C, or the number of BTU's per pound per degree F.
- spectatorship — the state of being a spectator
- 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.
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
- stamp machine — a machine used for stamping documents, as with the time, etc
- standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
- steamer chair — deck chair.
- straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- stratigraphic — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
- stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
- 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.
- suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
- sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
- superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
- supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
- superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
- suprachiasmic — relating to the area in the hypothalamus that regulates the biological clock
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
- sympatholytic — opposing the effects of stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- 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).
- tachistoscope — an apparatus for use in exposing visual stimuli, as pictures, letters, or words, for an extremely brief period, used chiefly to assess visual perception or to increase reading speed.
- tachyphylaxis — Medicine/Medical. immediate, temporary immunization against the effects of injection of a toxic extract owing to previous small injections of the same extract.
- tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
- telemechanics — the science or practice of operating mechanisms by remote control.
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
- tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
- the ascension — the bodily ascent of Jesus into heaven on the fortieth day after the Resurrection: Acts 1:9
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
- the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
- the-alchemist — a comedy (1610) by Ben Jonson.
- theatricalism — conduct suggesting theatrical actions or mannerisms, especially of an extravagant or exhibitionist sort.
- thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thermostatics — the branch of science concerned with thermal equilibrium
- thieves' cant — slang used by thieves
- thoracentesis — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
- thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
- toxicophagous — poison-eating
- tracking shot — dolly shot.
- transthoracic — of or relating to the thorax.