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.