13-letter words containing c, h, i, p, s
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
- reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
- reprographics — reprography.
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
- schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
- schizophrenic — Psychiatry. of or relating to schizophrenia: Not all of these patients are schizophrenic.
- school phobia — a fear of going to or returning to school
- scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
- scorpion fish — any of several tropical and temperate marine scorpaenid fishes, especially members of the genus Scorpaena, many having venomous dorsal spines.
- scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
- scratchpad ii — See Scratchpad I, AXIOM.
- scrivenership — the position of being a scrivener or scribe; scribing
- secretaryship — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
- seneschalship — the office or position of a seneschal
- shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
- share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- shocking pink — a vivid or intensely bright pink.
- shop chairman — a unionized employee elected to represent a shop, department, or the like, in dealings with an employer.
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- slipper chair — a small bedroom chair with a low seat.
- social phobia — a type of anxiety disorder characterized by shyness and heightened self-consciousness in particular social situations
- somatopsychic — of or relating to the effects of the body on the mind.
- sophistically — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- sophisticated — sophisticated.
- space heating — the heating of a limited area, as a room, by means of a heater (space heater) within the area.
- spanish cedar — a tropical American tree, Cedrela odorata, of the mahogany family.
- 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
- speech clinic — a place at which specialists in speech therapy reeducate those with a speech handicap.
- 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.
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- spherocytosis — the condition of having spherocytes
- spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
- spider orchid — any of several European orchids of the genus Ophrys, esp O. sphegodes, having a flower with yellow, green, or pink sepals and a broad brown velvety lip
- spine-chiller — a book, film, etc, that arouses terror
- spirochetosis — a disease caused by infection with a spirochete.
- spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
- stamp machine — a machine used for stamping documents, as with the time, etc
- standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
- stethoscopist — a person who is experienced in the use of a stethoscope
- stratigraphic — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
- stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere