13-letter words containing h, o, c, u, s
- she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
- sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- short account — the account of a short seller.
- short subject — a short film, as a documentary or travelogue, shown as part of a program with a feature-length film.
- short-circuit — Electricity. to make (an appliance, switch, etc.) inoperable by establishing a short circuit in. to carry (a current) as a short circuit.
- smooth muscle — involuntary muscle tissue in the walls of viscera and blood vessels, consisting of nonstriated, spindle-shaped cells.
- south african — of southern Africa.
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- stomach upset — a slight illness affecting your stomach and/or bowels characterized by nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea
- successorship — the position or state of a successor
- suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
- sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
- summer school — study programs offered by a school, college, or university during the summer to those who wish to obtain their degrees more quickly, who must make up credits, or who wish to supplement their education.
- sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
- synchronously — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
- tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
- tautochronous — having the character of a tautochrone
- terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
- tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
- the conscious — that part of one's mental activity of which one is fully aware at any given time
- the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
- the holocaust — the systematic, genocidal destruction of over six million European Jews by the Nazis before and during WWII
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- thiosulphuric — of or relating to thiosulphuric acid or anything derived from it
- to lose touch — If you lose touch with someone, you gradually stop writing, telephoning, or visiting them.
- toxicophagous — poison-eating
- trachycarpous — having rough-skinned fruit.
- treacherously — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
- trichopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Trichoptera, comprising the caddisflies.
- unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
- up to scratch — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- volksdeutsche — a member of the German people, especially one of a community having its home outside of Germany, usually in central or eastern Europe.
- without cease — without stopping; incessantly
- xanthochroous — light-skinned and fair-haired
- youth custody — (in Britain) a sentence of from four to eighteen months' detention passed on a person aged 15 to 21