13-letter words containing c, h, o, m, s
- committeeship — (formerly) the office of a person to whom the care of a mentally incompetent person or his or her property was entrusted by a court
- common school — a public elementary school
- commonwealths — Plural form of commonwealth.
- companionship — Companionship is having someone you know and like with you, rather than being on your own.
- compass north — magnetic north, as indicated on a particular compass at a given moment.
- comprehension — Comprehension is the ability to understand something.
- comprehensive — Something that is comprehensive includes everything that is needed or relevant.
- compsognathus — any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Compsognathus, of late Jurassic age, having a slender body that reached a length of 30 inches (76 cm).
- copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
- cosmochemical — relating to cosmochemistry
- cosmothetical — cosmothetic
- crash blossom — an ambiguously worded headline whose meaning can be interpreted in the wrong way, as “Missing Woman Remains Found.”. See also garden-path.
- crash program — a plan of action entailing rapid and intensive production, growth, or the like, undertaken to meet a deadline or solve a pressing problem: a crash program to develop a new fighter plane.
- cytochemistry — the chemistry of living cells
- damson cheese — thick damson jam
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- dichotomising — Present participle of dichotomise.
- dichotomistic — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichotomously — divided or dividing into two parts.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
- elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
- encroachments — Plural form of encroachment.
- ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
- fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
- haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
- 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.
- hemocytoblast — a primordial cell capable of developing into any type of blood cell.
- hepatectomies — Plural form of hepatectomy.
- hermosa beach — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- histochemical — the branch of science dealing with the chemical components of cellular and subcellular tissue.
- histrionicism — histrionic behaviour or acts
- home comforts — things in a house that make it comfortable
- home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
- home-schooler — to teach (one's children) at home instead of sending them to school.
- homeschoolers — Plural form of homeschooler.
- homeschooling — a school set up in the home.
- homestead act — a special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.
- homoeroticism — a tendency to be sexually aroused by a member of the same sex.
- homoscedastic — having the same variance.
- honey stomach — the crop of an ant, bee, or other hymenopterous insect, serving as a reservoir for honeydew and nectar, especially the enlarged crop of a honeybee in which nectar is acted on by enzymes to form honey.
- host computer — the main computer in a network: controls or performs certain functions for other computers.
- hydrodynamics — the branch of fluid dynamics that deals with liquids, including hydrostatics and hydrokinetics.
- hypsometrical — Of or pertaining to hypsometry.
- hystricomorph — any rodent of the suborder Hystricomorpha, which includes porcupines, cavies, agoutis, and chinchillas
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- immunochemist — A chemist whose speciality is immunochemistry.