13-letter words containing c, h, r, i, s, t
- straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- stratigraphic — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
- stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
- street urchin — a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
- sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
- superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
- switch-hitter — to be able to bat from either side of the plate, or both as a left-handed and as a right-handed batter.
- switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
- synchronicity — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- synchronistic — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
- tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
- the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
- 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 superrich — exceptionally wealthy people, considered collectively
- theatricalism — conduct suggesting theatrical actions or mannerisms, especially of an extravagant or exhibitionist sort.
- thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thermospheric — pertaining to the thermosphere
- thermostatics — the branch of science concerned with thermal equilibrium
- thiosulphuric — of or relating to thiosulphuric acid or anything derived from it
- thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
- thoracentesis — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
- thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
- topochemistry — the study of reactions that only occur at specific regions in a system
- tracking shot — dolly shot.
- transthoracic — of or relating to the thorax.
- trichopterist — a student of, or expert in, trichopteran insects
- trichopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Trichoptera, comprising the caddisflies.
- trichromatism — the quality or condition of being trichromatic.
- trip a switch — to activate (a mechanical trip)
- trisaccharide — a carbohydrate composed of three monosaccharide units, and hydrolyzable to a monosaccharide or a mixture of monosaccharides.
- tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
- ultraphysical — extremely physical
- uncharismatic — (of a person) not charismatic; lacking charisma; dull
- up shit creek — excrement; feces.
- west bromwich — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
- white arsenic — arsenous acid
- witches' brew — a potent magical concoction supposedly prepared by witches.
- xanthochroism — a condition in certain animals, esp aquarium goldfish, in which all skin pigments other than yellow and orange disappear