13-letter words containing c, o, h, s, t
- cushion plant — a type of low-growing plant having many closely spaced short upright shoots, typical of alpine and arctic habitats
- custodianship — the condition of being a custodian
- cut both ways — to have both good and bad effects
- cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
- cyclostrophic — pertaining to atmospheric motion in which the centripetal acceleration exactly balances the horizontal pressure force.
- cystathionine — an amino acid, C 7 H 14 O 4 N 2 S, that is an intermediate in the transfer of sulfur from methionine to cysteine.
- cytochalasins — Plural form of cytochalasin.
- cytochemistry — the chemistry of living cells
- cytopharynges — Plural form of cytopharynx.
- dance hostess — a woman who hosts a ball at her house
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- dichotomising — Present participle of dichotomise.
- dichotomistic — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichotomously — divided or dividing into two parts.
- dictatorships — Plural form of dictatorship.
- directorships — Plural form of directorship.
- dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- drop a stitch — to allow a loop of wool to fall off a knitting needle accidentally while knitting
- duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
- echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
- electrographs — Plural form of electrograph.
- electrophiles — Plural form of electrophile.
- electrophones — Plural form of electrophone.
- electrophorus — A device for repeatedly generating static electricity by induction.
- encroachments — Plural form of encroachment.
- eschatologies — Plural form of eschatology.
- ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
- ethnohistoric — relating to ethnohistory
- factory-fresh — coming directly from the factory; brand new
- feature shock — (jargon) (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
- flash fiction — very short works of fiction that are typically no longer than a couple of pages and may be as short as one paragraph.
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- gastrohepatic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and the liver.
- gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
- goat's cheese — cheese made from goat's milk
- gonochoristic — Of or pertaining to gonochorism.
- grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
- half-scottish — Also, Scots. of or relating to Scotland, its people, or their language.
- hand controls — a set of controls in some cars, operated by hand, that have the same function as the accelerator, brake, and clutch pedals
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- hash function — (programming) A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
- heliocentrism — The theory that the sun is the center of the universe, (This theory is historically important and was widely accepted at the time of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.).
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- hemocytoblast — a primordial cell capable of developing into any type of blood cell.
- hepatectomies — Plural form of hepatectomy.
- heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
- hertogenbosch — 's Hertogenbosch.
- heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- heterocarpous — (of a plant) producing more than one type of fruit