13-letter words containing c, h, o, p
- school phobia — a fear of going to or returning to school
- school report — written assessment of school pupil
- 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.
- scorpion fish — any of several tropical and temperate marine scorpaenid fishes, especially members of the genus Scorpaena, many having venomous dorsal spines.
- scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
- shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
- shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders.
- shocking pink — a vivid or intensely bright pink.
- shop chairman — a unionized employee elected to represent a shop, department, or the like, in dealings with an employer.
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
- social phobia — a type of anxiety disorder characterized by shyness and heightened self-consciousness in particular social situations
- somatopsychic — of or relating to the effects of the body on the mind.
- sophistically — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- sophisticated — sophisticated.
- spectatorship — the state of being a spectator
- spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- spherocytosis — the condition of having spherocytes
- spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
- spider orchid — any of several European orchids of the genus Ophrys, esp O. sphegodes, having a flower with yellow, green, or pink sepals and a broad brown velvety lip
- spirochetosis — a disease caused by infection with a spirochete.
- 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.
- standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
- stethoscopist — a person who is experienced in the use of a stethoscope
- stomach upset — a slight illness affecting your stomach and/or bowels characterized by nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea
- stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
- successorship — the position or state of a successor
- suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
- sympathectomy — surgery that interrupts a nerve pathway of the sympathetic or involuntary nervous system.
- sympatholytic — opposing the effects of stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- synecphonesis — the fusion of two syllables into one
- tachistoscope — an apparatus for use in exposing visual stimuli, as pictures, letters, or words, for an extremely brief period, used chiefly to assess visual perception or to increase reading speed.
- 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.
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
- the paleocene — the Paleocene Epoch or its rocks
- the paleozoic — the Paleozoic Era or its rocks
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- the-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- theriomorphic — (of deities) thought of or represented as having the form of beasts.
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thermospheric — pertaining to the thermosphere
- thiosulphuric — of or relating to thiosulphuric acid or anything derived from it
- thoracoplasty — the operation removing selected portions of the ribs to collapse part of the underlying lung or an abnormal pleural space, usually in the treatment of tuberculosis.