13-letter words containing c, h, a, o
- 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.
- school leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
- school of law — (in Chinese philosophy) a Neo-Confucian school asserting the existence of transcendent universals, which form individual objects from a primal matter otherwise formless.
- school phobia — a fear of going to or returning to school
- schoolmarmish — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- schoolteacher — a teacher in a school, especially in one below the college level.
- 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.
- scoinson arch — sconcheon arch.
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
- scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
- scotch-hearth — ore hearth.
- scratch score — an estimated number of strokes for a hole or course that a scratch player should make
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- sea hollyhock — a rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- semiochemical — a chemical substance produced by an animal and used in communications, such as a pheromone
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- shambolically — in a completely disorganized or chaotic manner
- share account — a savings account in a credit union.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
- shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
- shock and awe — US military: use of extreme force
- shock tactics — shock tactics are a way of trying to influence people's attitudes to a particular matter by shocking them
- shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders.
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- shop chairman — a unionized employee elected to represent a shop, department, or the like, in dealings with an employer.
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- shore terrace — a terrace or bench produced by wave erosion and biochemical attack along the shore of an ocean or a large lake.
- short account — the account of a short seller.
- 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.
- slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
- smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
- social phobia — a type of anxiety disorder characterized by shyness and heightened self-consciousness in particular social situations
- solar chariot — (in ancient Egypt) a chariot placed in the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
- somatopsychic — of or relating to the effects of the body on the mind.
- sophistically — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- 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).
- southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- spectatorship — the state of being a spectator
- spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- splanchnocele — a primitive embryonic body cavity
- splanchnology — the visceral system