15-letter words containing c, h, l, o
- scaphocephalous — of or relating to scaphocephalus
- schillerization — the process of altering crystals to produce schiller
- schola cantorum — an ecclesiastical choir or choir school.
- schone mullerin — a song cycle (1823), by Franz Schubert, consisting of 20 songs set to poems by Wilhelm Müller.
- school district — A school district is an area which includes all the schools that are situated within that area and are governed by a particular authority.
- school holidays — the period during which schools are closed - in the summer, at Christmas and Easter, and at other times of the year
- school teaching — School teaching is the work done by teachers in a school.
- school-gate mum — a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
- schoolboy crush — an infatuation that a young boy has, usually for an older woman such as a teacher or an actress, which is seen as superficial and unlikely to last for long
- scotch highland — any of a breed of small, hardy, usually dun-colored, shaggy-haired beef cattle with long, widespread horns, able to withstand the cold and sparse pasturage of its native western Scottish uplands.
- scottish gaelic — the Gaelic of the Hebrides and the Highlands of Scotland, also spoken as a second language in Nova Scotia.
- self-abhorrence — a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination.
- self-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
- semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
- separate school — (in Canada) a school for a large religious minority financed by its rates and administered by its own school board but under the authority of the provincial department of education
- shalom aleichem — Sholom [shaw-luh m] /ˈʃɔ ləm/ (Show IPA), or Sholem [shoh-lem,, -luh m] /ˈʃoʊ lɛm,, -ləm/ (Show IPA), or Shalom [shah-lohm] /ʃɑˈloʊm/ (Show IPA), (pen name of Solomon Rabinowitz) 1859–1916, Russian author of Yiddish novels, plays, and short stories; in the U.S. from 1906.
- sherlock holmes — a fictitious British detective with great powers of deduction, the main character in many stories by A. Conan Doyle
- shockwave flash — flash
- sholem aleichem — Sholom [shaw-luh m] /ˈʃɔ ləm/ (Show IPA), or Sholem [shoh-lem,, -luh m] /ˈʃoʊ lɛm,, -ləm/ (Show IPA), or Shalom [shah-lohm] /ʃɑˈloʊm/ (Show IPA), (pen name of Solomon Rabinowitz) 1859–1916, Russian author of Yiddish novels, plays, and short stories; in the U.S. from 1906.
- sholom aleichem — Sholom [shaw-luh m] /ˈʃɔ ləm/ (Show IPA), or Sholem [shoh-lem,, -luh m] /ˈʃoʊ lɛm,, -ləm/ (Show IPA), or Shalom [shah-lohm] /ʃɑˈloʊm/ (Show IPA), (pen name of Solomon Rabinowitz) 1859–1916, Russian author of Yiddish novels, plays, and short stories; in the U.S. from 1906.
- shoulder charge — an instance of a player charging into another so that there is contact between their shoulders (permissible in some circumstances)
- shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
- silver chloride — a white, granular, water-insoluble powder, AgCl, that darkens on exposure to light, produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a chloride: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and in the making of antiseptic silver preparations.
- slashdot effect — a temporary surge in the numbers visiting a website and consequent service slowdown or even server crash that sometimes arises as a result of a new link being set up from a more popular website
- social heritage — the entire inherited pattern of cultural activity present in a society.
- sociohistorical — involving social and historical elements
- sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
- sodium chloride — salt1 (def 1).
- soft-shell clam — an edible clam, Mya arenaria, inhabiting waters along both coasts of North America, having an oval, relatively thin, whitish shell.
- soft-shell crab — a crab, especially the blue crab, that has recently molted and therefore has a soft, edible shell.
- solenoid switch — A solenoid switch is an electrical switch that is often used where a high current circuit, such as a starter motor circuit, is brought into operation by a low current switch.
- sophisticatedly — (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
- spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
- splanchnopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
- stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
- succinylcholine — a drug, C14H30N2O4, used primarily as a muscle relaxant, produced by the esterization of succinic acid with choline
- sulphurous acid — an unstable acid produced when sulphur dioxide dissolves in water: used as a preservative for food and a bleaching agent. Formula: H2SO3
- sweet chocolate — cocoa product with high sugar content
- sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- synecdochically — 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.
- teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
- techno-thriller — a suspense novel in which the manipulation of sophisticated technology, as of aircraft or weapons systems, plays a prominent part.
- technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
- thalassographic — relating to thalassography
- the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
- the common weal — the good of society
- the cordilleras — the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains
- the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
- the other place — (at Oxford University) Cambridge University
- the paleolithic — the Paleolithic period, subdivided into the Lower (to c. 150,000 b.c.), Middle (to c. 38,000 b.c.), and Upper stages; Old Stone Age