13-letter words containing c, h, i, t, n
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- ramapithecine — of or relating to an extinct hominoid of the genus Ramapithecus
- retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
- right section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane perpendicular to its longest axis.
- rolling hitch — a hitch on a spar or the like, composed of two round turns and a half hitch so disposed as to jam when a stress is applied parallel to the object on which the hitch is made.
- ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
- saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
- sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht
- sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
- scene shifter — a person who changes scenes during a play
- schizogenetic — reproducing or formed by fission.
- school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
- scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
- scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
- screen rights — the rights to make a film version of a book
- scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
- section eight — a military discharge for physical or mental unfitness as determined by an Army Regulation in effect from 1922 to 1944.
- semisynthetic — derived synthetically from one or more substances of natural origin.
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
- shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
- shaving stick — a piece of shaving foam moulded into a slender shape and held in a slender container for ease of application to the face when removing hair with a razor
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
- slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
- south african — of southern Africa.
- space heating — the heating of a limited area, as a room, by means of a heater (space heater) within the area.
- stamp machine — a machine used for stamping documents, as with the time, etc
- standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
- street urchin — a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
- sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
- switch engine — a locomotive for switching rolling stock in a yard.
- synchronicity — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- synchronistic — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- synodic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
- talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
- tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
- team teaching — a system whereby two or more teachers pool their skills, knowledge, etc, to teach combined classes
- technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
- technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- technologized — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- technopolitan — of or relating to a place or society dominated by technology
- telemechanics — the science or practice of operating mechanisms by remote control.
- telencephalic — the anterior section of the forebrain comprising the cerebrum and related structures.
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
- testing bench — a piece of equipment for testing if a machine or device is working properly
- the antarctic — Antarctica and the surrounding waters