13-letter words containing c, h, a, p, s
- psychosomatic — of or relating to a physical disorder that is caused by or notably influenced by emotional factors.
- psychotherapy — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- 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.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- reprographics — reprography.
- research park — an industrial park whose facilities are devoted to research and development.
- sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- scallop shell — the shell of a scallop
- scaphocephaly — premature closure of the sagittal suture resulting in a deformed skull having an elongated, keellike shape.
- schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
- schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
- school phobia — a fear of going to or returning to school
- scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
- 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 plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
- scratch paper — rough paper for notes, etc.
- scratchpad ii — See Scratchpad I, AXIOM.
- 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.
- seneschalship — the office or position of a seneschal
- shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
- 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.
- shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
- 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.
- 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.
- slipper chair — a small bedroom chair with a low seat.
- slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
- social phobia — a type of anxiety disorder characterized by shyness and heightened self-consciousness in particular social situations
- somatopsychic — of or relating to the effects of the body on the mind.
- sophistically — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- sophisticated — sophisticated.
- space heating — the heating of a limited area, as a room, by means of a heater (space heater) within the area.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- 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