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13-letter words containing c, h, e, r, k

  • roller hockey — a game similar to ice hockey played on roller skates.
  • round-cheeked — having plump cheeks
  • schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • shark watcher — a business consultant who assists companies in identifying and preventing unwelcome takeover bids
  • shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
  • 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
  • smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
  • snake charmer — an entertainer who seems to charm venomous snakes, usually by music.
  • socket wrench — a box wrench with a socket that is an extension of the shank.
  • 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.
  • spell checker — a computer program for checking the spelling of words in an electronic document.
  • spell-checker — A spell-checker is a special program on a computer which you can use to check whether something you have written contains any spelling mistakes.
  • sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
  • squash racket — a light long-handled racket used in the game of squash
  • sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
  • street hockey — road hockey.
  • stretch marks — Stretch marks are lines or marks on someone's skin caused by the skin stretching after the person's weight has changed rapidly. Women who have had children often have stretch marks.
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • thomas deckerThomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
  • throttle back — If you throttle back, or you throttle back the engine, when driving a motor vehicle or flying an aircraft, you make it go slower by reducing the quantity of fuel entering the engine.
  • thunderstruck — overcome with consternation; confounded; astounded: He was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion.
  • ticket holder — a person who has a valid ticket for an event or for a journey on public transport
  • truchas peaks — group of mountains in N New Mexico, NE of Santa Fe in the S Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
  • unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
  • up shit creek — excrement; feces.
  • upper chinook — a Chinookan language of the Columbia River valley from the Deschutes River to the estuary.
  • water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
  • weather check — if you get a weather check you find out what the weather is like
  • weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
  • welfare check — a social security payment
  • white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
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