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13-letter words containing c, h, o, s, e

  • 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.
  • opthalmoscope — Misspelling of ophthalmoscope.
  • orchesography — a written study of dancing
  • orchestra pit — musicians' seating in front of stage
  • orchestra-pit — a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.
  • orchestralist — a person who writes or arranges orchestral music
  • orchestrating — Present participle of orchestrate.
  • orchestration — (uncountable) the arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra.
  • orchestrators — Plural form of orchestrator.
  • orchiectomies — Plural form of orchiectomy.
  • orthosilicate — a silicate mineral
  • outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
  • overachievers — Plural form of overachiever.
  • overstretched — to stretch excessively.
  • oystercatcher — any of several long-billed wading birds of the genus Haematopus that have chiefly black-and-white plumage and that feed on oysters, clams, mussels, etc.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • peach blossom — the flower of the peach tree: the state flower of Delaware.
  • pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
  • petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
  • pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
  • phase encoded — (storage)   (PE) A recording method used for 1600 BPI magnetic tapes. Compare NRZI, GCR.
  • phelloplastic — an image or a representation that has been fashioned from cork
  • phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
  • phonendoscope — an instrument that amplifies small sounds, esp within the human body
  • photocomposer — a machine for setting type photographically.
  • physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
  • phytocoenosis — the plants of a given area considered as a whole.
  • pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
  • piece of shit — despicable person
  • plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
  • polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
  • polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • post exchange — a retail store on an army installation that sells goods and services to military personnel and their dependents and to certain authorized civilian personnel. Abbreviation: PX.
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • preceptorship — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
  • presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
  • prosectorship — the position or responsibility of a prosector
  • protectorship — a person or thing that protects; defender; guardian.
  • protest march — public demonstration
  • pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
  • psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
  • psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
  • psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
  • psychogenesis — genesis of the psyche.
  • psychogenetic — genesis of the psyche.
  • psychographer — a person who writes a psychograph; a psychological or psychographic biographer.
  • psychokinesis — the purported ability to move or deform inanimate objects, as metal spoons, through mental processes.
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