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13-letter words containing h, o, r, s, c

  • scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
  • 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 record — the information that is kept about a child at school, including biographical information and exam results
  • school report — written assessment of school pupil
  • 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 crocus — a garden plant, Crocus biflorus, of southeastern Europe and Turkey, having purple-striped, yellow-throated flowers.
  • scotch-hearth — ore hearth.
  • 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
  • second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
  • self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
  • 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.
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
  • share account — a savings account in a credit union.
  • sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
  • 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
  • shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • shop chairman — a unionized employee elected to represent a shop, department, or the like, in dealings with an employer.
  • shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
  • shore terrace — a terrace or bench produced by wave erosion and biochemical attack along the shore of an ocean or a large lake.
  • 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.
  • short-commons — a scanty allowance of food.
  • shower screen — a shower panel
  • sister school — a university or college which is financially, historically or socially linked to another
  • smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
  • socket wrench — a box wrench with a socket that is an extension of the shank.
  • solar chariot — (in ancient Egypt) a chariot placed in the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
  • 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.
  • spectatorship — the state of being a spectator
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