13-letter words containing c, h, o, a, d
- monochromated — Fitted with a monochromator.
- mood enhancer — something, esp a drug, that has the effect of lifting a person's mood
- nodical month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- non-adherence — the quality of adhering; steady devotion, support, allegiance, or attachment: adherence to a party; rigid adherence to rules.
- nondetachable — Not capable of being detached.
- nonmechanized — Unmechanized.
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- orchard grass — a weedy grass, Dactylis glomerata, often grown for pastures.
- orchard valve — an alfalfa valve of lesser diameter than the pipe it closes.
- orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
- orchidomaniac — a person who is obsessed with or has a passion for orchids
- orthopaedical — Pertaining to orthopaedics; characteristic of orthopaedia.
- phase encoded — (storage) (PE) A recording method used for 1600 BPI magnetic tapes. Compare NRZI, GCR.
- photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
- phyllocladous — having phylloclades.
- powder charge — propellant (def 2).
- protochordate — any of the nonvertebrate chordates, as the tunicates, cephalochordates, and hemichordates.
- psychodynamic — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
- ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
- reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
- redondo beach — a city in SW California.
- sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
- sadomasochism — interaction, especially sexual activity, in which one person enjoys inflicting physical or mental suffering on another person, who derives pleasure from experiencing pain.
- sadomasochist — interaction, especially sexual activity, in which one person enjoys inflicting physical or mental suffering on another person, who derives pleasure from experiencing pain.
- sandwich coin — a coin having a layer of one metal between outside layers of another, as a quarter with a layer of copper between layers of silver.
- sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
- scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
- scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- shock and awe — US military: use of extreme force
- slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
- sophisticated — sophisticated.
- standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
- sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
- sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
- 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.
- tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
- the decameron — title of collection of stories written in Italian in the early Renaissance by Boccaccio
- the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
- the-decameron — a collection of 100 tales (1353) by Boccaccio.
- thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
- thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
- thioacetamide — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 2 H 5 NS, used chiefly in analytical chemistry as a source of hydrogen sulfide.
- thiocarbamide — thiourea.
- thioctic acid — Biochemistry. an organic acid, C 8 H 14 O 2 S 2 , that occurs as a coenzyme in hydrogen transfer reactions in certain plants, microorganisms, and animals and functions as a growth factor for many species of bacteria and protozoa.