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13-letter words containing h, o, i, s, t

  • bitch goddess — worldly or material success personified as a goddess, especially one requiring sacrifice and being essentially destructive: He went to New York to worship the bitch goddess.
  • bitch session — a discussion in which people complain or gripe, usually about a shared experience: Their first date turned into a four-hour bitch session about their ex-spouses' lawyers.
  • bottomfishing — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
  • boutros-ghali — ˈBoutros (ˈbutroʊs ) ; bo̅oˈtrōs) 1922- ; Egypt. diplomat: secretary-general of the United Nations (1992-96)
  • bridging shot — a shot inserted in a film to indicate the passage of time between two scenes, as of a series of newspaper headlines or calendar pages being torn off.
  • bronchiolitis — a condition in which the small airways in the lungs become inflamed by a virus. It is most common in infants, who become breathless in severe cases. Recurrent attacks may lead to asthma
  • brotherliness — of, like, or befitting a brother; affectionate and loyal; fraternal: brotherly love.
  • cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
  • cash discount — a discount granted to a purchaser who pays before a stipulated date
  • casting couch — a couch on which a casting director is said to seduce women seeking a part in a film or play
  • catastrophise — Alt form catastrophize.
  • catastrophism — an old doctrine, now discarded, that the earth was created and has subsequently been shaped by sudden divine acts which have no logical connection with each other rather than by gradual evolutionary processes
  • catastrophist — the doctrine that certain vast geological changes in the earth's history were caused by catastrophes rather than gradual evolutionary processes.
  • catastrophize — (obsolete) To end a comedy.
  • chalcostibite — a mineral, antimony copper sulfide, CuSbS 2 , occurring in lead-gray crystals.
  • chalicotheres — Plural form of chalicothere.
  • chang tso-lin — 1873–1928, Chinese general: military ruler of Manchuria 1918–28.
  • chase mortise — a mortise having one inclined narrow side.
  • cheiromantist — A chiromancer.
  • chemisorption — an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds
  • cheviot hills — a range of hills on the border between England and Scotland, mainly in Northumberland
  • chiaroscurist — A painter who uses light and shade rather than colour to create the illusion of volume.
  • chicago steak — a strip steak or, sometimes, a shell steak.
  • chicago style — a style of jazz flourishing in Chicago especially in the early 1920s, constituting a direct offshoot of New Orleans style, and differing from its predecessor chiefly in the diminished influence of native folk sources, the greater tension of its group improvisation, the increased emphasis on solos, and the regular use of the tenor saxophone as part of the ensemble.
  • child custody — custody (def 4).
  • child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
  • child-custody — custody (def 4).
  • chilkoot pass — a mountain pass in North America between SE Alaska and NW British Columbia, over the Coast Range
  • chirographist — a person who studies or who is knowledgeable about handwriting styles
  • chiropractics — The practice of a chiropractor.
  • chiropractors — Plural form of chiropractor.
  • chloroformist — a person who is skilled in the use of or who dispenses or provides chloroform as part of their job
  • chloroplastic — a plastid containing chlorophyll.
  • cholecystitis — inflammation of the gall bladder, due to bacterial infection or the presence of gallstones
  • cholesteremia — cholesterolemia.
  • choripetalous — polypetalous
  • chrestomathic — (of teaching or learning) That has a practical use.
  • christmas box — a tip or present given at Christmas, esp to postmen, tradesmen, etc
  • chromaticness — the attribute of colour that involves both hue and saturation
  • chromatolysis — the dissolution of stained material, such as chromatin in injured cells
  • chromesthesia — (neurology, psychology) sound-to-color synaesthesia.
  • chrysophilite — a person who loves gold
  • clavichordist — Someone who plays the clavichord.
  • cleistothecia — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
  • clistothecium — cleistothecium.
  • co-authorship — the state a coauthor
  • coach station — A coach station is an area or a building which coaches leave from or arrive at on regular journeys.
  • coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
  • codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
  • collectorship — The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
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