13-letter words containing c, h, r, i, s, t
- pre-christian — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the Christian Era.
- pre-christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- preanesthetic — a substance that produces a preliminary or light anesthesia.
- preceptorship — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
- promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
- prosectorship — the position or responsibility of a prosector
- protectorship — a person or thing that protects; defender; guardian.
- psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
- psychohistory — history or the writing of history employing the techniques of psychoanalysis to explore motivations, explain actions, etc.
- psychometrics — the measurement of mental traits, abilities, and processes.
- psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
- rhodochrosite — a mineral, manganese carbonate, MnCO 3 , commonly containing some iron and calcium, and usually rose-red in color: a minor ore of manganese; manganese spar.
- richter scale — a scale, ranging from 1 to 10, for indicating the intensity of an earthquake.
- right section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane perpendicular to its longest axis.
- rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
- rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
- saccharimeter — an optical instrument for determining the strength of sugar solutions by measuring the rotation of the plane of polarized light they produce.
- saccharimetry — the process of measuring the amount of sugar in a sample, as with a saccharimeter or by polarimetry.
- saccharolytic — of or causing the hydrolysis of sugars.
- sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- scene shifter — a person who changes scenes during a play
- schreibersite — a mineral, iron-nickel phosphide, (Fe, Ni) 3 P, found only in meteorites.
- scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
- scottish rite — one of the two advanced divisions of Masonic membership, leading to the 33rd degree.
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- scratchpad ii — See Scratchpad I, AXIOM.
- screen rights — the rights to make a film version of a book
- secretaryship — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
- shark biscuit — a bodyboard
- sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- short-circuit — Electricity. to make (an appliance, switch, etc.) inoperable by establishing a short circuit in. to carry (a current) as a short circuit.
- singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
- sister school — a university or college which is financially, historically or socially linked to another
- solar chariot — (in ancient Egypt) a chariot placed in the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
- south african — of southern Africa.
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- spectatorship — the state of being a spectator
- spherocytosis — the condition of having spherocytes
- spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
- spirochetosis — a disease caused by infection with a spirochete.
- steamer chair — deck chair.
- stem christie — a turn made by stemming one ski and then bringing the other parallel to it during the turn.
- sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
- stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.