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13-letter words containing c, h, i, r, m

  • pre-christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
  • primary cache — (hardware, architecture)   (L1 cache, level one cache) A small, fast cache memory inside or close to the CPU chip. For example, an Intel 80486 has an eight-kilobyte on-chip cache, and most Pentiums have a 16-KB on-chip level one cache that consists of an 8-KB instruction cache and an 8-KB data cache. The larger, slower secondary cache is normally connected to the CPU via its external bus.
  • privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
  • promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
  • psychometrics — the measurement of mental traits, abilities, and processes.
  • psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
  • radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
  • ramapithecine — of or relating to an extinct hominoid of the genus Ramapithecus
  • regime change — the transition from one political regime to another, esp through concerted political or military action
  • rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
  • richmond hill — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, N of Toronto.
  • saccharimeter — an optical instrument for determining the strength of sugar solutions by measuring the rotation of the plane of polarized light they produce.
  • saccharimetry — the process of measuring the amount of sugar in a sample, as with a saccharimeter or by polarimetry.
  • schoolmarmish — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
  • schwärmerisch — excessively or extremely enthusiastic
  • sex chromatin — Barr body.
  • shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
  • shop chairman — a unionized employee elected to represent a shop, department, or the like, in dealings with an employer.
  • south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • steamer chair — deck chair.
  • stem christie — a turn made by stemming one ski and then bringing the other parallel to it during the turn.
  • stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
  • suprachiasmic — relating to the area in the hypothalamus that regulates the biological clock
  • tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
  • theatricalism — conduct suggesting theatrical actions or mannerisms, especially of an extravagant or exhibitionist sort.
  • theriomorphic — (of deities) thought of or represented as having the form of beasts.
  • thermic fever — sunstroke.
  • thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
  • thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thermospheric — pertaining to the thermosphere
  • thermostatics — the branch of science concerned with thermal equilibrium
  • thiocarbamide — thiourea.
  • thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
  • thyroidectomy — excision of all or a part of the thyroid gland.
  • topochemistry — the study of reactions that only occur at specific regions in a system
  • trichromatism — the quality or condition of being trichromatic.
  • uncharismatic — (of a person) not charismatic; lacking charisma; dull
  • unforthcoming — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
  • vice-chairman — a member of a committee, board, group, etc., designated as immediately subordinate to a chairman and serving as such in the latter's absence; a person who acts for and assists a chairman.
  • wedding march — a musical composition played during a wedding procession.
  • west bromwich — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
  • whipped cream — dairy cream that has been whisked
  • wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine
  • xanthochroism — a condition in certain animals, esp aquarium goldfish, in which all skin pigments other than yellow and orange disappear
  • xerophthalmic — Of or pertaining to xerophthalmia.
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