13-letter words containing c, h, o, y
- 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 whisky — whiskey distilled in Scotland, especially from malted barley in a pot still.
- sea hollyhock — a rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos.
- 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.
- 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.
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- somatopsychic — of or relating to the effects of the body on the mind.
- sophistically — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- spherocytosis — the condition of having spherocytes
- spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
- splanchnology — the visceral system
- stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
- street hockey — road hockey.
- sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
- 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.
- synchondrosis — the joining of two bones by cartilage
- synchronicity — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- synchronistic — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- synchronizing — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- 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.
- synecphonesis — the fusion of two syllables into one
- synodic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- thalassocracy — dominion over the seas, as in exploration, trade, or colonization.
- the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
- theologically — of, relating to, or involved with theology: a theological student.
- theoretically — of, relating to, or consisting in theory; not practical (distinguished from applied).
- thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
- thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
- 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.
- thyroidectomy — excision of all or a part of the thyroid gland.
- thyrotoxicity — of or relating to a condition caused by excessive thyroid hormone in the system, usually resulting from overactivity of the thyroid gland.
- to play havoc — If one thing plays havoc with another or wreaks havoc on it, it prevents it from continuing or functioning as normal, or damages it.
- topochemistry — the study of reactions that only occur at specific regions in a system
- tracheophytes — any plant of the former division Tracheophyta, comprising all the vascular plants.
- trachycarpous — having rough-skinned fruit.
- treacherously — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
- typographical — of or relating to typography.
- velocity head — the velocity of a fluid expressed in terms of the head or static pressure required to produce that velocity. It equals ρν/2 where ρ is the density of the fluid and ν is the velocity. In hydrology the density of water can be written 1/G where G is the gravitational constant
- vinyl alcohol — an unstable liquid compound, C 2 H 4 O, found only in the form of its esters or as the polymer polyvinyl alcohol.
- wholistically — Alternative form of holistically.
- wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).
- xylographical — Xylographic.
- youth culture — the activities and behaviour associated with young people
- youth custody — (in Britain) a sentence of from four to eighteen months' detention passed on a person aged 15 to 21
- zoopsychology — the psychology of animals