13-letter words containing c, h, o, i, e, s
- cytochemistry — the chemistry of living cells
- dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- desynchronize — Disturb the synchronization of; put out of step or phase.
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- directorships — Plural form of directorship.
- discographies — Plural form of discography.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
- echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
- echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
- ecophysiology — the branch of physiology that deals with the physiological processes of organisms with respect to their environment.
- electrophiles — Plural form of electrophile.
- eschatologies — Plural form of eschatology.
- eschscholzias — Plural form of eschscholzia.
- ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
- ethnohistoric — relating to ethnohistory
- for chrissake — for Christ's sake
- forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
- french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
- french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
- gastrohepatic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and the liver.
- gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
- geophysically — In a geophysical manner; in terms of geophysics.
- haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
- hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
- have occasion — If you have occasion to do something, it is necessary for you to do it.
- heliocentrism — The theory that the sun is the center of the universe, (This theory is historically important and was widely accepted at the time of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.).
- hemicellulose — any of a group of gummy polysaccharides, intermediate in complexity between sugar and cellulose, that hydrolyze to monosaccharides more readily than cellulose.
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- hepatectomies — Plural form of hepatectomy.
- hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
- heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
- heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- heteroclitous — heteroclite
- heteroplastic — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
- hieracosphinx — (in ancient Egyptian art) a hawk-headed sphinx
- hieroglyphics — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
- histochemical — the branch of science dealing with the chemical components of cellular and subcellular tissue.
- holosericeous — covered with short, silky hairs.
- home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
- homeschooling — a school set up in the home.
- homoeroticism — a tendency to be sexually aroused by a member of the same sex.
- homoscedastic — having the same variance.
- honor society — (in a college, university, or secondary school) a student society that admits members on the basis of academic merit and, sometimes, worthwhile contributions in extracurricular activities.
- hospital care — medical treatment provided in a hospital
- hospital case — a patient that is being, or needs to be, treated in a hospital
- host-specific — capable of living solely on or in one species of host, as a parasite that infests only chickens.