13-letter words containing c, h, a, s, e
- 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.
- scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- scholasticate — a course of study for seminarians, taken prior to their theological studies.
- school leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
- 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.
- schwärmerisch — excessively or extremely enthusiastic
- 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-hearth — ore hearth.
- scratch paper — rough paper for notes, etc.
- scratch score — an estimated number of strokes for a hole or course that a scratch player should make
- scratch sheet — a racing publication giving the betting odds and other information on the horses entered at a racetrack or racetracks during a racing day.
- 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.
- search engine — a computer program that searches documents, especially on the World Wide Web, for a specified word or words and provides a list of documents in which they are found.
- 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.
- seed merchant — someone that collects, packages and sells seeds
- self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- semi-attached — partially attached; semidetached.
- semi-detached — partly detached.
- semi-mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- semiochemical — a chemical substance produced by an animal and used in communications, such as a pheromone
- seneschalship — the office or position of a seneschal
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- shaped charge — a warhead having a concave, hollow end and operating on the Munroe effect.
- share account — a savings account in a credit union.
- 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
- shark watcher — a business consultant who assists companies in identifying and preventing unwelcome takeover bids
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
- shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
- shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
- shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
- 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 and awe — US military: use of extreme force
- 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
- shore terrace — a terrace or bench produced by wave erosion and biochemical attack along the shore of an ocean or a large lake.
- sick headache — migraine.
- silvichemical — any of a number of chemicals derived from a tree.
- 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
- slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector