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13-letter words containing c, h, e, s, a

  • slipper chair — a small bedroom chair with a low seat.
  • 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.
  • sophisticated — sophisticated.
  • south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • 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.
  • splanchnocele — a primitive embryonic body cavity
  • spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
  • squash racket — a light long-handled racket used in the game of squash
  • stagecoachman — the driver or operator of a stagecoach
  • stamp machine — a machine used for stamping documents, as with the time, etc
  • state chamber — a room for public ceremonies and celebrations.
  • steamer chair — deck chair.
  • steeplechaser — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • stomach upset — a slight illness affecting your stomach and/or bowels characterized by nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea
  • straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
  • 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.
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
  • supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
  • superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
  • surbased arch — drop arch (def 2).
  • surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
  • 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
  • sympathectomy — surgery that interrupts a nerve pathway of the sympathetic or involuntary nervous system.
  • 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.
  • synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
  • tachistoscope — an apparatus for use in exposing visual stimuli, as pictures, letters, or words, for an extremely brief period, used chiefly to assess visual perception or to increase reading speed.
  • tax schedules — the different ways of classifying income under tax law
  • teachableness — the quality or condition of being teachable
  • teacher's pet — a pupil who is a favorite of a teacher.
  • telemechanics — the science or practice of operating mechanisms by remote control.
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • the ascension — the bodily ascent of Jesus into heaven on the fortieth day after the Resurrection: Acts 1:9
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
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