13-letter words containing c, o, n, h
- sandwich coin — a coin having a layer of one metal between outside layers of another, as a quarter with a layer of copper between layers of silver.
- 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.
- schizogenesis — reproduction by fission.
- schizogenetic — reproducing or formed by fission.
- 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 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 outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
- scoinson arch — sconcheon arch.
- scorchingness — the state or quality of being scorching
- scorpion fish — any of several tropical and temperate marine scorpaenid fishes, especially members of the genus Scorpaena, many having venomous dorsal spines.
- scotch bonnet — a small, irregularly shaped, extremely hot chili pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum chinense related to the habanero and ranging from yellow to red.
- scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
- scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
- section eight — a military discharge for physical or mental unfitness as determined by an Army Regulation in effect from 1922 to 1944.
- senior school — a school for pupils between the ages of 11 or 12 and 17 or 18
- seventh chord — a chord formed by the superposition of three thirds.
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- share account — a savings account in a credit union.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
- shock and awe — US military: use of extreme force
- shocking pink — a vivid or intensely bright pink.
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- shop chairman — a unionized employee elected to represent a shop, department, or the like, in dealings with an employer.
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- short account — the account of a short seller.
- short-commons — a scanty allowance of food.
- shower screen — a shower panel
- slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
- slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
- socket wrench — a box wrench with a socket that is an extension of the shank.
- south african — of southern Africa.
- southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- splanchnocele — a primitive embryonic body cavity
- splanchnology — the visceral system
- stagecoachman — the driver or operator of a stagecoach
- standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
- suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
- sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
- synchondrosis — the joining of two bones by cartilage