13-letter words containing e, n, c, h, r
- 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.
- schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
- scorchingness — the state or quality of being scorching
- screen rights — the rights to make a film version of a book
- scrivenership — the position of being a scrivener or scribe; scribing
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- search engine — a computer program that searches documents, especially on the World Wide Web, for a specified word or words and provides a list of documents in which they are found.
- second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
- seed merchant — someone that collects, packages and sells seeds
- senior school — a school for pupils between the ages of 11 or 12 and 17 or 18
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- seventh chord — a chord formed by the superposition of three thirds.
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- 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
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- shower screen — a shower panel
- singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
- slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
- snake charmer — an entertainer who seems to charm venomous snakes, usually by music.
- socket wrench — a box wrench with a socket that is an extension of the shank.
- southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- spanish cedar — a tropical American tree, Cedrela odorata, of the mahogany family.
- 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.
- spine-chiller — a book, film, etc, that arouses terror
- spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
- 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.
- sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
- superencipher — to encode (a message) that is already a cryptogram.
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
- the antarctic — Antarctica and the surrounding waters
- the archenemy — the devil
- the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
- the caribbean — the states and islands of the Caribbean Sea, including the West Indies, when considered as a geopolitical region
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
- the decameron — title of collection of stories written in Italian in the early Renaissance by Boccaccio
- the ediacaran — the Ediacaran period or rock system
- the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
- the necessary — the money required for a particular purpose
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
- the-decameron — a collection of 100 tales (1353) by Boccaccio.
- thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
- thermobalance — an analytical balance that measures weight changes when matter is heated
- thermocurrent — a thermoelectric current.