13-letter words containing c, h, i, u, s
- rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
- rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
- schizaeaceous — relating to a type of extinct fern
- 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 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
- schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
- scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
- shark biscuit — a bodyboard
- sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
- short-circuit — Electricity. to make (an appliance, switch, etc.) inoperable by establishing a short circuit in. to carry (a current) as a short circuit.
- south african — of southern Africa.
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- 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.
- successorship — the position or state of a successor
- suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
- sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
- superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
- superencipher — to encode (a message) that is already a cryptogram.
- supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
- superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
- superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
- suprachiasmic — relating to the area in the hypothalamus that regulates the biological clock
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
- tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
- the conscious — that part of one's mental activity of which one is fully aware at any given time
- the superrich — exceptionally wealthy people, considered collectively
- thick-skulled — stupid; dull.
- thiosulphuric — of or relating to thiosulphuric acid or anything derived from it
- thumb-sucking — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- toxicophagous — poison-eating
- trichopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Trichoptera, comprising the caddisflies.
- ultraphysical — extremely physical
- uncharismatic — (of a person) not charismatic; lacking charisma; dull
- unchastisable — not deserving to be chastised; beyond reproach
- unethicalness — lacking moral principles; unwilling to adhere to proper rules of conduct.
- unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
- unsympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- up shit creek — excrement; feces.
- without cease — without stopping; incessantly
- zinc sulphate — a colourless soluble crystalline substance usually existing as the heptahydrate or monohydrate: used as a mordant, in preserving wood and skins, and in the electrodeposition of zinc. Formula: ZnSO4