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13-letter words containing c, h, i, l

  • pitching tool — a masonry chisel for rough work
  • plagiocephaly — a deformity of the skull in which one side is more developed in the front, and the other side is more developed in the rear.
  • plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • platycephalic — having a head whose cranial vault is broad or flat.
  • pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
  • polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
  • polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
  • polycythaemia — an abnormal condition of the blood characterized by an increase in the number of red blood cells. It can occur as a primary disease of unknown cause (polycythaemia vera or erythraemia) or in association with respiratory or circulatory diseases
  • polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
  • polytechnical — relating to a technical school
  • principalship — first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost.
  • prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
  • psychobiology — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
  • psychological — of or relating to psychology.
  • psychotically — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
  • psychrophilic — (esp of bacteria) showing optimum growth at low temperatures
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
  • public school — (in the U.S.) a school that is maintained at public expense for the education of the children of a community or district and that constitutes a part of a system of free public education commonly including primary and secondary schools.
  • pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
  • pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • quiller-couch — Sir Arthur Thomas ("Q") 1863–1944, English novelist and critic.
  • radical right — the faction representing extreme right-wing political views; ultraconservatives; reactionaries.
  • radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
  • rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
  • reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
  • retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
  • rheologically — in a rheological manner
  • rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
  • rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • richmond hill — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, N of Toronto.
  • richter scale — a scale, ranging from 1 to 10, for indicating the intensity of an earthquake.
  • riding school — a place where equitation is taught.
  • rolling hitch — a hitch on a spar or the like, composed of two round turns and a half hitch so disposed as to jam when a stress is applied parallel to the object on which the hitch is made.
  • saccharolytic — of or causing the hydrolysis of sugars.
  • saddle-stitch — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • schematically — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
  • schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
  • scholasticate — a course of study for seminarians, taken prior to their theological studies.
  • scholasticism — (sometimes initial capital letter) the system of theological and philosophical teaching predominant in the Middle Ages, based chiefly upon the authority of the church fathers and of Aristotle and his commentators.
  • school choice — an educational policy based on vouchers or scholarships, allowing students their choice of private or public school.
  • school dinner — meal served at educational institution
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • 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.
  • school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
  • school phobia — a fear of going to or returning to school
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