12-letter words containing c, h, e, s, o
- psychologize — to make psychological investigations or speculations, especially those that are naive or uninformed.
- psychometric — Psychology. psychometrics.
- psychosexual — of or relating to the relationship of psychological and sexual phenomena.
- psychrometer — an instrument for determining atmospheric humidity by the reading of two thermometers, the bulb of one being kept moist and ventilated.
- psychrometry — the employment of the psychrometer.
- public house — British. a tavern.
- pyrotechnics — the art of making fireworks.
- pyrotechnist — a person skilled in pyrotechnics, especially in the manufacture or use of fireworks.
- quelquechose — kickshaw.
- rachiotomies — Plural form of rachiotomy.
- reproachless — irreproachable.
- rock-shelter — a shallow cave or cavelike area, as one formed by an overhanging cliff or standing rocks, occupied by Stone Age peoples, possibly for extended periods.
- rosh chodesh — the beginning of a new month in the Jewish calendar, celebrated in a specified manner during the morning service in the synagogue.
- sacher torte — a chocolate cake covered with apricot jam and chocolate icing, usually served with whipped cream.
- safety touch — a two-point play
- scatter shot — shot prepared for a weapon having a rifled bore or barrel.
- scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- schizogenous — schizogenetic.
- schizomycete — any of numerous microorganisms of the subkingdom (or phylum) Schizophyta, kingdom Monera, comprising the bacteria.
- schizophrene — a person with schizophrenia or one who tends toward schizophrenia
- schoenheimer — Rudolf [roo-dolf;; German roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɒlf;; German ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1898–1941, U.S. biochemist, born in Germany.
- schoolfellow — a schoolmate.
- schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
- schooner rig — a rig in which the mainmast is taller than the foremast
- schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
- schussboomer — a skier who is skilled at schussing.
- sclerophylly — the normal development of much sclerenchyma in the leaves of certain plants, as some desert plants, resulting in thickened, hardened foliage that resists loss of moisture.
- search order — an injunction allowing a person to enter the premises of another to search for and take copies of evidence required for a court case, used esp in cases of infringement of copyright
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- second reich — the German Empire 1871–1919.
- second sheet — a sheet of blank stationery, used in a letter as the second and following pages to a sheet having a letterhead.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- second teeth — the teeth which replace the milk teeth
- second-homer — a person who owns another house in addition to their main home, often in an area where they are not native and used as a holiday home
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- septic shock — condition caused by blood poisoning
- shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
- shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
- shamrock-pea — a trailing plant, Parochetus communis, of the legume family, native to Asia and east Africa, having shamrocklike leaves with a brown crescent at the base and pea-shaped, pink and blue flowers.
- sharecropper — a tenant farmer who pays as rent a share of the crop.
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- shatter cone — a cone-shaped fragment of rock, probably formed by violent shock waves, as from meteoritic impact or atomic explosions
- sheet anchor — Nautical. a large anchor used only in cases of emergency.
- shellshocked — suffering from shellshock
- shen congwen — 1902–1988, Chinese author.
- short notice — little warning
- short splice — a splice used when an increased thickness of the united rope is not objectionable, made by unlaying the rope ends a certain distance, uniting them so that their strands overlap, then tucking each alternately over and under others several times.
- short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- siderochrome — any of various chemical compounds functioning in the transport of iron in bacteria.