13-letter words containing c, h, o, s, a
- autoschediaze — to do or act with little forethought or preparation
- bachelor seal — a young male seal, esp a fur seal, that has not yet mated
- bachelorettes — Plural form of bachelorette.
- ballet school — a school where professional ballet dancers are trained
- batch-process — to perform batch processing on (files)
- beacon school — a notably successful school whose methods and practices are brought to the attention of the education service as a whole in order that they may be adopted by other schools
- behavioristic — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
- body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
- bois de vache — dried buffalo dung, used as fuel by Canadian and U.S. fur trappers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
- brachiosaurus — a dinosaur of the genus Brachiosaurus, up to 30 metres long: the largest land animal ever known
- brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
- broca-aphasia — a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Broca's area of the brain, characterized by misarticulated speech and lack of grammatical morphemes.
- buenas noches — good night
- buffalo chips — the dried dung of buffalo used as fuel, especially by early settlers on the western plains.
- cache storage — cache (def 3).
- cacophonously — In a cacophonous manner.
- camphoraceous — similar to camphor
- candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
- carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
- cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
- cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
- cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
- cash discount — a discount granted to a purchaser who pays before a stipulated date
- cash holdings — the assets that you hold in ready cash, as opposed to property, shares, bonds, etc
- casting couch — a couch on which a casting director is said to seduce women seeking a part in a film or play
- castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
- catastrophise — Alt form catastrophize.
- catastrophism — an old doctrine, now discarded, that the earth was created and has subsequently been shaped by sudden divine acts which have no logical connection with each other rather than by gradual evolutionary processes
- catastrophist — the doctrine that certain vast geological changes in the earth's history were caused by catastrophes rather than gradual evolutionary processes.
- catastrophize — (obsolete) To end a comedy.
- catch oneself — to hold oneself back abruptly from saying or doing something
- catcher's box — box1 (def 16d).
- cephalopodous — of, belonging to or relating to a cephalopod
- cephalosporin — any of a group of broad-spectrum antibiotics obtained from fungi of the genus Cephalosporium
- chaetophorous — bearing bristles; setigerous.
- chaise longue — A chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length.
- chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
- chalcostibite — a mineral, antimony copper sulfide, CuSbS 2 , occurring in lead-gray crystals.
- chalicotheres — Plural form of chalicothere.
- championships — Plural form of championship.
- chang tso-lin — 1873–1928, Chinese general: military ruler of Manchuria 1918–28.
- chaperoneship — State or position of chaperone.
- chapter house — A chapter house is the building or set of rooms in the grounds of a cathedral where the members of the clergy hold their meetings.
- charing cross — a district of London, in the city of Westminster: the modern cross (1863) in front of Charing Cross railway station replaces the one erected by Edward I (1290), the last of twelve marking the route of the funeral procession of his queen, Eleanor
- charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
- charles louis — (Karl Ludwig Johann) 1771–1847, archduke of Austria.
- charley horse — People sometimes refer to a cramp in the muscles of their leg or arm as a charley horse.
- charlier shoe — special light horseshoe
- charnel house — A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.