13-letter words containing c, h, o, i, e, s
- house cricket — a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.
- house officer — a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
- hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- hypersarcosis — a fleshy outgrowth
- hypochlorites — Plural form of hypochlorite.
- hyposecretion — a diminished secretion.
- hypotheticals — Plural form of hypothetical.
- hypsometrical — Of or pertaining to hypsometry.
- iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- immunochemist — A chemist whose speciality is immunochemistry.
- in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- incoherencies — incoherence.
- inspectorship — The condition of being an inspector; the office of an inspector.
- isochromosome — an abnormal chromosome in which the two arms share identical genetic information
- kosher pickle — a garlic-flavored pickle, sold especially in Jewish delicatessens.
- marchionesses — Plural form of marchioness.
- mechanisation — Alternative spelling of mechanization.
- medicine shop — (in Malaysia) a Chinese chemist's shop where traditional herbs are sold as well as modern drugs. It is not, however, a dispensary for prescribed medicines
- medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.
- melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
- mesocephalism — mesocephaly
- metachromasia — A characteristic change in the colour of staining carried out in biological tissues, exhibited by certain aniline dyes when they bind to particular substances present in these tissues, called chromotropes.
- methodistical — Methodistic.
- microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
- microswitches — Plural form of microswitch.
- middle school — a school intermediate between elementary school and high school, usually encompassing grades five or six through eight.
- mischievously — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- miscomprehend — Misunderstand.
- mnemotechnics — the process or technique of improving or developing the memory.
- mohr's circle — a graphical construction enabling the stresses in the cross-section of a body to be determined if the principal stresses are known
- monochlorides — Plural form of monochloride.
- morphometrics — a technique of taxonomic analysis using measurements of the form of organisms
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- myrmecophiles — Plural form of myrmecophile.
- nanochemistry — (chemistry) The synthesis, analysis and characterization of chemical compounds at the nanoscale.
- necrophiliacs — Plural form of necrophiliac.
- nephrectomies — Plural form of nephrectomy.
- nicholasville — a town in central Kentucky.
- non-aesthetic — relating to the philosophy of aesthetics; concerned with notions such as the beautiful and the ugly.
- non-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- nonce-bashing — violent attacks against rapists, child molesters, or sexual offenders, esp inside a prison
- nonhysterical — not hysterical or funny
- ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
- officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
- onychorrhexis — (pathology) fingernail and toenail brittleness and breakage, such as may be due to excessive strong soap and water exposure, nail polish remover, hypothyroidism, anemia, anorexia nervosa or bulimia, or after oral retinoid therapy.
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.