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13-letter words containing c, h, a, p, e, r

  • scratch paper — rough paper for notes, etc.
  • secretaryship — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
  • self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
  • shaped charge — a warhead having a concave, hollow end and operating on the Munroe effect.
  • share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • slipper chair — a small bedroom chair with a low seat.
  • spanish cedar — a tropical American tree, Cedrela odorata, of the mahogany family.
  • spark chamber — a device for detecting elementary particles, consisting of a series of charged plates separated by a gas so that the passage of a charged particle causes sparking between adjacent plates.
  • spectatorship — the state of being a spectator
  • spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • 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.
  • spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
  • steeplechaser — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
  • 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.
  • teacher's pet — a pupil who is a favorite of a teacher.
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • the heptarchy — the supposed confederacy of seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms
  • the-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
  • therapeutical — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
  • tin parachute — an employment agreement guaranteeing a worker compensation, especially in the form of bonuses and benefits, in the event of dismissal as a result of a merger or takeover.
  • tracheophytes — any plant of the former division Tracheophyta, comprising all the vascular plants.
  • truchas peaks — group of mountains in N New Mexico, NE of Santa Fe in the S Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
  • unreproachful — not deserving reproach or blame
  • unreproaching — not reproaching or blaming
  • upper chamber — upper house.
  • whipped cream — dairy cream that has been whisked
  • white crappie — See under crappie.
  • xerophthalmic — Of or pertaining to xerophthalmia.
  • zoogeographic — Pertaining to zoogeography.
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