13-letter words containing h, o, r, s, c
- spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- spherocytosis — the condition of having spherocytes
- spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
- spider orchid — any of several European orchids of the genus Ophrys, esp O. sphegodes, having a flower with yellow, green, or pink sepals and a broad brown velvety lip
- spirochetosis — a disease caused by infection with a spirochete.
- sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
- sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
- stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
- stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
- street hockey — road hockey.
- successorship — the position or state of a successor
- 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.
- synchondrosis — the joining of two bones by cartilage
- synchronicity — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- synchronistic — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- synchronizing — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- synchronology — combined chronology
- 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
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
- 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.
- thalassocracy — dominion over the seas, as in exploration, trade, or colonization.
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
- 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-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
- thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thermospheric — pertaining to the thermosphere
- thermostatics — the branch of science concerned with thermal equilibrium
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- thiosulphuric — of or relating to thiosulphuric acid or anything derived from it
- thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
- thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
- thoracenteses — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
- thoracentesis — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
- thoracoplasty — the operation removing selected portions of the ribs to collapse part of the underlying lung or an abnormal pleural space, usually in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
- topochemistry — the study of reactions that only occur at specific regions in a system
- tracheophytes — any plant of the former division Tracheophyta, comprising all the vascular plants.
- trachycarpous — having rough-skinned fruit.
- tracking shot — dolly shot.
- transthoracic — of or relating to the thorax.
- treacherously — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
- trichopterist — a student of, or expert in, trichopteran insects
- trichopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Trichoptera, comprising the caddisflies.