13-letter words containing c, h, i, s, e, l
- pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
- pencil-pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
- petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
- phallic phase — the time from about age three to five when the genitals become the focus of a child's sensual pleasure.
- phelloplastic — an image or a representation that has been fashioned from cork
- phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
- physical file — (file system) A low-level view of the physical characteristics of a file, such as its location on a disk or its physical structure, for example, whether indexed or sequential.
- physicalities — the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
- physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
- pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
- polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
- polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
- rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
- rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
- richter scale — a scale, ranging from 1 to 10, for indicating the intensity of an earthquake.
- saddle-stitch — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
- saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
- schematically — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
- schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
- scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- scholasticate — a course of study for seminarians, taken prior to their theological studies.
- school choice — an educational policy based on vouchers or scholarships, allowing students their choice of private or public school.
- school dinner — meal served at educational institution
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
- schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
- self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- semi-mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- semiochemical — a chemical substance produced by an animal and used in communications, such as a pheromone
- seneschalship — the office or position of a seneschal
- senior school — a school for pupils between the ages of 11 or 12 and 17 or 18
- share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
- shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
- ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
- sickle-hocked — noting or pertaining to a condition of horses in which the hock, due to strained tendons and ligaments, is flexed so that the foot is abnormally bowed far under the body.
- silvichemical — any of a number of chemicals derived from a tree.
- singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
- sister school — a university or college which is financially, historically or socially linked to another
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
- slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
- slipper chair — a small bedroom chair with a low seat.
- smooth collie — a breed of short-haired collie with a smooth, thick coat.
- 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.
- spine-chiller — a book, film, etc, that arouses terror
- superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
- superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
- synecdochical — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.