0%

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

  • 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.
  • spine-chiller — a book, film, etc, that arouses terror
  • spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
  • street urchin — a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • superencipher — to encode (a message) that is already a cryptogram.
  • synchondrosis — the joining of two bones by cartilage
  • synchronicity — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • synchronistic — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • synchronizing — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
  • tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • the antarctic — Antarctica and the surrounding waters
  • the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
  • the caribbean — the states and islands of the Caribbean Sea, including the West Indies, when considered as a geopolitical region
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the ediacaran — the Ediacaran period or rock system
  • the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
  • thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
  • thoracentesis — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
  • thurification — the act of incense-burning
  • tin parachute — an employment agreement guaranteeing a worker compensation, especially in the form of bonuses and benefits, in the event of dismissal as a result of a merger or takeover.
  • tracking shot — dolly shot.
  • transthoracic — of or relating to the thorax.
  • trichothecene — any of a group of toxins derived from various imperfect fungi, as of the genera Fusarium and Trichothecium.
  • truchet point — (unit, text)   An obsolete variant of the point, equal to 0.188 mm.
  • turbocharging — the process or action of supplying an internal combustion engine or a motor vehicle with a turbocharger
  • uncharismatic — (of a person) not charismatic; lacking charisma; dull
  • unchlorinated — not chlorinated; not treated with chlorine
  • underachiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
  • underclothing — clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes.
  • unforthcoming — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
  • unreproaching — not reproaching or blaming
  • unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
  • untheoretical — not theoretical; not belonging or pertaining to the realm of theory; not confined to the theoretical realm; (somewhat) concrete
  • upper chinook — a Chinookan language of the Columbia River valley from the Deschutes River to the estuary.
  • 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.
  • welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
  • whip scorpion — any of numerous arachnids of the order Uropygi, of tropical and warm temperate regions, resembling a scorpion but having an abdomen that ends in a slender, nonvenomous whip.
  • white arsenic — arsenous acid
  • white currant — a cultivated N temperate shrub, Ribes sativum, having small rounded white edible berries: family Grossulariaceae
  • windsor bench — a bench similar in construction to a Windsor chair.
  • windsor chair — a wooden chair of many varieties, having a spindle back and legs slanting outward: common in 18th-century England and in the American colonies.
  • wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine
  • winter cherry — Also called Chinese lantern plant. a Eurasian ground cherry, Physalis alkekengi, of the nightshade family, bearing fruit enclosed in a showy, orange-red, inflated calyx.
  • witching hour — midnight: a rendezvous at the witching hour.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?