13-letter words containing e, c, h, i
- ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- sick headache — migraine.
- sickle-hocked — noting or pertaining to a condition of horses in which the hock, due to strained tendons and ligaments, is flexed so that the foot is abnormally bowed far under the body.
- silvichemical — any of a number of chemicals derived from a tree.
- 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
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
- slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
- slipper chair — a small bedroom chair with a low seat.
- smooth collie — a breed of short-haired collie with a smooth, thick coat.
- sophisticated — sophisticated.
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- space heating — the heating of a limited area, as a room, by means of a heater (space heater) within the area.
- spanish cedar — a tropical American tree, Cedrela odorata, of the mahogany family.
- specific heat — the number of calories required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance 1°C, or the number of BTU's per pound per degree F.
- spectatorship — the state of being a spectator
- speech clinic — a place at which specialists in speech therapy reeducate those with a speech handicap.
- speech island — a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
- speech making — act of addressing the public formally
- speechreading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
- spherocytosis — the condition of having spherocytes
- spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
- spider orchid — any of several European orchids of the genus Ophrys, esp O. sphegodes, having a flower with yellow, green, or pink sepals and a broad brown velvety lip
- spine-chiller — a book, film, etc, that arouses terror
- spirochetosis — a disease caused by infection with a spirochete.
- spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
- stamp machine — a machine used for stamping documents, as with the time, etc
- steamer chair — deck chair.
- stem christie — a turn made by stemming one ski and then bringing the other parallel to it during the turn.
- stethoscopist — a person who is experienced in the use of a stethoscope
- 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.
- straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
- street urchin — a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- successorship — the position or state of a successor
- suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
- sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
- superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
- superencipher — to encode (a message) that is already a cryptogram.
- supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
- superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
- superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
- switch engine — a locomotive for switching rolling stock in a yard.
- switch-hitter — to be able to bat from either side of the plate, or both as a left-handed and as a right-handed batter.
- switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
- synecdochical — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
- synecphonesis — the fusion of two syllables into one