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.