13-letter words containing c, h, o, l
- school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
- school leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
- school of law — (in Chinese philosophy) a Neo-Confucian school asserting the existence of transcendent universals, which form individual objects from a primal matter otherwise formless.
- 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
- school phobia — a fear of going to or returning to school
- school record — the information that is kept about a child at school, including biographical information and exam results
- school report — written assessment of school pupil
- school system — state education
- schoolgirlish — like or characteristic of a schoolgirl
- schoolmarmish — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- schoolteacher — a teacher in a school, especially in one below the college level.
- scissors hold — a wrestling hold in which one contestant clasps the other with the legs
- sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
- scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
- scottish fold — a breed of medium-sized short-haired cat with folded ears
- sea hollyhock — a rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos.
- self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- semiochemical — a chemical substance produced by an animal and used in communications, such as a pheromone
- senior school — a school for pupils between the ages of 11 or 12 and 17 or 18
- shambolically — in a completely disorganized or chaotic manner
- shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
- shell-shocked — battle fatigue.
- sickle-hocked — noting or pertaining to a condition of horses in which the hock, due to strained tendons and ligaments, is flexed so that the foot is abnormally bowed far under the body.
- sister school — a university or college which is financially, historically or socially linked to another
- slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
- slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
- smooth collie — a breed of short-haired collie with a smooth, thick coat.
- smooth muscle — involuntary muscle tissue in the walls of viscera and blood vessels, consisting of nonstriated, spindle-shaped cells.
- social phobia — a type of anxiety disorder characterized by shyness and heightened self-consciousness in particular social situations
- solar chariot — (in ancient Egypt) a chariot placed in the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
- sophistically — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- splanchnocele — a primitive embryonic body cavity
- splanchnology — the visceral system
- sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
- suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
- summer school — study programs offered by a school, college, or university during the summer to those who wish to obtain their degrees more quickly, who must make up credits, or who wish to supplement their education.
- sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
- sympatholytic — opposing the effects of stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- synchronology — combined chronology
- synchronously — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
- 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.
- techno-babble — technical jargon relating to computing and other technological subjects
- technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
- technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- technologized — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- technopolitan — of or relating to a place or society dominated by technology
- telencephalon — the anterior section of the forebrain comprising the cerebrum and related structures.