13-letter words containing c, l, o, h
- polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
- polycythaemia — an abnormal condition of the blood characterized by an increase in the number of red blood cells. It can occur as a primary disease of unknown cause (polycythaemia vera or erythraemia) or in association with respiratory or circulatory diseases
- 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).
- polytechnical — relating to a technical school
- pomme blanche — breadroot.
- postholocaust — following a holocaust
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
- psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalyst — a person trained to practice psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
- psychobiology — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- psychological — of or relating to psychology.
- psychotically — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
- psychrophilic — (esp of bacteria) showing optimum growth at low temperatures
- public school — (in the U.S.) a school that is maintained at public expense for the education of the children of a community or district and that constitutes a part of a system of free public education commonly including primary and secondary schools.
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- quelque chose — a trifle
- quelque-chose — kickshaw.
- quiller-couch — Sir Arthur Thomas ("Q") 1863–1944, English novelist and critic.
- radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
- ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
- record holder — sb officially recorded as best at sth
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- reform school — reformatory (def 2).
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
- rheologically — in a rheological manner
- 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.
- richmond hill — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, N of Toronto.
- riding school — a place where equitation is taught.
- rochelle salt — a white crystalline double salt, sodium potassium tartrate, used in Seidlitz powder. Formula: KNaC4H4O6.4H2O
- 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.
- royal charter — authorization by the monarchy
- saccharolytic — of or causing the hydrolysis of sugars.
- sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
- 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.
- scallop shell — the shell of a scallop
- scaphocephaly — premature closure of the sagittal suture resulting in a deformed skull having an elongated, keellike shape.
- scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- scholasticate — a course of study for seminarians, taken prior to their theological studies.
- scholasticism — (sometimes initial capital letter) the system of theological and philosophical teaching predominant in the Middle Ages, based chiefly upon the authority of the church fathers and of Aristotle and his commentators.
- school choice — an educational policy based on vouchers or scholarships, allowing students their choice of private or public school.
- 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.