13-letter words containing h, o, c
- recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
- redondo beach — a city in SW California.
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- reform school — reformatory (def 2).
- reorchestrate — to orchestrate (a piece of music) again
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- reprographics — reprography.
- research work — work concerning research into or investigation into a subject, topic, etc, particularly in the sciences
- resynchronize — to synchronize again
- retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
- rheologically — in a rheological manner
- rheoreceptors — a receptor of fishes and aquatic amphibians stimulated by water currents.
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
- rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- rhodochrosite — a mineral, manganese carbonate, MnCO 3 , commonly containing some iron and calcium, and usually rose-red in color: a minor ore of manganese; manganese spar.
- richmond hill — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, N of Toronto.
- riding school — a place where equitation is taught.
- right section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane perpendicular to its longest axis.
- robber trench — a trench that originally contained the foundations of a wall, the stones of which have been taken away
- rochelle salt — a white crystalline double salt, sodium potassium tartrate, used in Seidlitz powder. Formula: KNaC4H4O6.4H2O
- rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
- rock the boat — to move or sway to and fro or from side to side.
- rocking chair — a chair mounted on rockers or springs so as to permit a person to rock back and forth while sitting.
- rocking horse — a toy horse, as of wood, mounted on rockers or springs, on which children may ride; hobbyhorse.
- rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
- rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
- roller hockey — a game similar to ice hockey played on roller skates.
- rolling hitch — a hitch on a spar or the like, composed of two round turns and a half hitch so disposed as to jam when a stress is applied parallel to the object on which the hitch is made.
- rose of china — China rose (def 2).
- rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
- round-cheeked — having plump cheeks
- royal charter — authorization by the monarchy
- saccharolytic — of or causing the hydrolysis of sugars.
- saccharometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of sugar in a solution, as by determining the specific gravity of the solution.
- saccharometry — the process of determining the quantity of sugar in a solution
- saccharomyces — a fungus of the genus Saccharomyces, esp the yeast plant
- sacher-masoch — Leopold von [ley-oh-pohlt fuh n] /ˈleɪ oʊˌpoʊlt fən/ (Show IPA), 1836–95, Austrian novelist.
- sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
- sadomasochism — interaction, especially sexual activity, in which one person enjoys inflicting physical or mental suffering on another person, who derives pleasure from experiencing pain.
- sadomasochist — interaction, especially sexual activity, in which one person enjoys inflicting physical or mental suffering on another person, who derives pleasure from experiencing pain.
- 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
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- 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.
- scallop shell — the shell of a scallop
- scaphocephaly — premature closure of the sagittal suture resulting in a deformed skull having an elongated, keellike shape.
- schizaeaceous — relating to a type of extinct fern
- schizogenesis — reproduction by fission.