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13-letter words containing c, h, e, d, i

  • rhodochrosite — a mineral, manganese carbonate, MnCO 3 , commonly containing some iron and calcium, and usually rose-red in color: a minor ore of manganese; manganese spar.
  • richard petty — Richard, born 1937, U.S. racing-car driver.
  • ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
  • saddle-stitch — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • sandwich beam — flitch beam.
  • sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • school dinner — meal served at educational institution
  • school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
  • scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
  • semi-attached — partially attached; semidetached.
  • semi-detached — partly detached.
  • ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
  • ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
  • sick headache — migraine.
  • sickle-hocked — noting or pertaining to a condition of horses in which the hock, due to strained tendons and ligaments, is flexed so that the foot is abnormally bowed far under the body.
  • slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
  • sophisticated — sophisticated.
  • spanish cedar — a tropical American tree, Cedrela odorata, of the mahogany family.
  • speech island — a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
  • 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.
  • spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
  • spider orchid — any of several European orchids of the genus Ophrys, esp O. sphegodes, having a flower with yellow, green, or pink sepals and a broad brown velvety lip
  • suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • technologized — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
  • the afflicted — afflicted people considered collectively
  • the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
  • the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
  • the decencies — those things that are considered necessary for a decent life
  • the ediacaran — the Ediacaran period or rock system
  • the unco guid — narrow-minded, excessively religious, or self-righteous people
  • thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
  • thick-skinned — having a thick skin.
  • thick-skulled — stupid; dull.
  • thioacetamide — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 2 H 5 NS, used chiefly in analytical chemistry as a source of hydrogen sulfide.
  • thiocarbamide — thiourea.
  • thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
  • thyroidectomy — excision of all or a part of the thyroid gland.
  • ticket holder — a person who has a valid ticket for an event or for a journey on public transport
  • trisaccharide — a carbohydrate composed of three monosaccharide units, and hydrolyzable to a monosaccharide or a mixture of monosaccharides.
  • unchlorinated — not chlorinated; not treated with chlorine
  • underachiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
  • underclothing — clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes.
  • velocity head — the velocity of a fluid expressed in terms of the head or static pressure required to produce that velocity. It equals ρν/2 where ρ is the density of the fluid and ν is the velocity. In hydrology the density of water can be written 1/G where G is the gravitational constant
  • wedding chest — an ornamented chest for a trousseau.
  • wedding march — a musical composition played during a wedding procession.
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