13-letter words containing c, h, r, o
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- reprographics — reprography.
- research work — work concerning research into or investigation into a subject, topic, etc, particularly in the sciences
- resynchronize — to synchronize again
- retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
- rheologically — in a rheological manner
- rheoreceptors — a receptor of fishes and aquatic amphibians stimulated by water currents.
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
- rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- 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.
- richmond hill — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, N of Toronto.
- riding school — a place where equitation is taught.
- right section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane perpendicular to its longest axis.
- robber trench — a trench that originally contained the foundations of a wall, the stones of which have been taken away
- rochelle salt — a white crystalline double salt, sodium potassium tartrate, used in Seidlitz powder. Formula: KNaC4H4O6.4H2O
- rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
- rock the boat — to move or sway to and fro or from side to side.
- rocking chair — a chair mounted on rockers or springs so as to permit a person to rock back and forth while sitting.
- rocking horse — a toy horse, as of wood, mounted on rockers or springs, on which children may ride; hobbyhorse.
- rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
- rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
- roller hockey — a game similar to ice hockey played on roller skates.
- rolling hitch — a hitch on a spar or the like, composed of two round turns and a half hitch so disposed as to jam when a stress is applied parallel to the object on which the hitch is made.
- rose of china — China rose (def 2).
- rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
- round-cheeked — having plump cheeks
- royal charter — authorization by the monarchy
- saccharolytic — of or causing the hydrolysis of sugars.
- saccharometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of sugar in a solution, as by determining the specific gravity of the solution.
- saccharometry — the process of determining the quantity of sugar in a solution
- saccharomyces — a fungus of the genus Saccharomyces, esp the yeast plant
- sacher-masoch — Leopold von [ley-oh-pohlt fuh n] /ˈleɪ oʊˌpoʊlt fən/ (Show IPA), 1836–95, Austrian novelist.
- sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
- scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
- schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
- schizophrenic — Psychiatry. of or relating to schizophrenia: Not all of these patients are schizophrenic.
- scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- school dinner — meal served at educational institution
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
- school leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
- school record — the information that is kept about a child at school, including biographical information and exam results
- school report — written assessment of school pupil
- schoolgirlish — like or characteristic of a schoolgirl
- schoolmarmish — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- schoolteacher — a teacher in a school, especially in one below the college level.
- scissors hold — a wrestling hold in which one contestant clasps the other with the legs