13-letter words containing c, h, e, m, s
- chromospheres — Plural form of chromosphere.
- chromospheric — Of or pertaining to the chromosphere.
- chrysanthemum — A chrysanthemum is a large garden flower with many long, thin petals.
- cinematheques — Plural form of cinematheque.
- city chambers — (in Scotland) the municipal building of a city; town hall
- clishmaclaver — idle talk; gossip
- clistothecium — cleistothecium.
- close harmony — a type of singing in which all the parts except the bass lie close together and are confined to the compass of a tenth
- close to home — affecting sb personally
- close-mouthed — Someone who is close-mouthed about something does not say much about it.
- colour scheme — In a room or house, the colour scheme is the way in which colours have been used to decorate it.
- column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
- come up short — disappoint
- commandership — a person who commands.
- committeeship — (formerly) the office of a person to whom the care of a mentally incompetent person or his or her property was entrusted by a court
- commonwealths — Plural form of commonwealth.
- comprehension — Comprehension is the ability to understand something.
- comprehensive — Something that is comprehensive includes everything that is needed or relevant.
- copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
- cosmochemical — relating to cosmochemistry
- cosmothetical — cosmothetic
- cytochemistry — the chemistry of living cells
- damson cheese — thick damson jam
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- dimmer switch — A dimmer switch is an electrical switch which turns off the full beam of a headlamp and turns on the low beam.
- dimmer-switch — a person or thing that dims.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dreamcatchers — Plural form of dreamcatcher.
- dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
- edam (cheese) — a mild, yellow cheese, made in a round mold and usually having a coating of red paraffin
- elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
- embranchments — Plural form of embranchment.
- encroachments — Plural form of encroachment.
- entrenchments — Plural form of entrenchment.
- ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
- euphemistical — Archaic form of euphemistic.
- farmer cheese — a cheese made by pressing together the soft white curds of whole milk or partly skimmed milk, similar in texture to dry cottage cheese.
- feinschmecker — gourmet.
- firmer chisel — a narrow-bladed chisel for paring and mortising, driven by hand pressure or with a mallet.
- first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
- franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- french system — a method of spinning in which fibers of extremely short-staple wool are not twisted before being spun.
- haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
- heliocentrism — The theory that the sun is the center of the universe, (This theory is historically important and was widely accepted at the time of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.).
- hemicellulose — any of a group of gummy polysaccharides, intermediate in complexity between sugar and cellulose, that hydrolyze to monosaccharides more readily than cellulose.
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- hemiparasitic — Semiparasitic.