13-letter words containing h, o, c
- schizogenetic — reproducing or formed by fission.
- schizomycetes — any of numerous microorganisms of the subkingdom (or phylum) Schizophyta, kingdom Monera, comprising the bacteria.
- schizomycosis — any disease due to schizomycetes.
- 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.
- scholasticate — a course of study for seminarians, taken prior to their theological studies.
- scholasticism — (sometimes initial capital letter) the system of theological and philosophical teaching predominant in the Middle Ages, based chiefly upon the authority of the church fathers and of Aristotle and his commentators.
- school choice — an educational policy based on vouchers or scholarships, allowing students their choice of private or public school.
- school dinner — meal served at educational institution
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- 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 leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
- school of law — (in Chinese philosophy) a Neo-Confucian school asserting the existence of transcendent universals, which form individual objects from a primal matter otherwise formless.
- 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
- school phobia — a fear of going to or returning to school
- school record — the information that is kept about a child at school, including biographical information and exam results
- school report — written assessment of school pupil
- school system — state education
- schoolgirlish — like or characteristic of a schoolgirl
- schoolmarmish — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- schoolteacher — a teacher in a school, especially in one below the college level.
- scissors hold — a wrestling hold in which one contestant clasps the other with the legs
- sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.
- 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 crocus — a garden plant, Crocus biflorus, of southeastern Europe and Turkey, having purple-striped, yellow-throated flowers.
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
- scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
- scotch whisky — whiskey distilled in Scotland, especially from malted barley in a pot still.
- scotch-hearth — ore hearth.
- scottish fold — a breed of medium-sized short-haired cat with folded ears
- scottish rite — one of the two advanced divisions of Masonic membership, leading to the 33rd degree.
- scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
- scratch score — an estimated number of strokes for a hole or course that a scratch player should make
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- sea hollyhock — a rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos.
- 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.
- self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- semiochemical — a chemical substance produced by an animal and used in communications, such as a pheromone
- 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.