14-letter words containing i, n, s, t, c, h
- shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
- sistine chapel — the chapel of the pope in the Vatican at Rome, built for Pope Sixtus IV and decorated with frescoes by Michelangelo and others.
- slanging match — A slanging match is an angry quarrel in which people insult each other.
- son of a bitch — a contemptible or thoroughly disagreeable person; scoundrel.
- sophisticating — a sophisticated person.
- sophistication — sophisticated character, ideas, tastes, or ways as the result of education, worldly experience, etc.: the sophistication of the wealthy.
- south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- south carolina — a state in the SE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 31,055 sq. mi. (80,430 sq. km). Capital: Columbia. Abbreviation: SC (for use with zip code), S.C.
- sparring match — a practice boxing match
- spinthariscope — an instrument that detects ionizing radiation by picking up sparks of light from alpha particles.
- st. catharines — a city in SE Ontario, in SE Canada.
- standard pitch — concert pitch
- station church — any of the churches in Rome that have been used from ancient times as points of assembly for religious processions
- stay stitching — a line of stitches made in the seam allowance to prevent the edges from stretching
- steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
- steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
- stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
- straight chain — an open chain of atoms, usually carbon, with no side chains attached to it.
- straight-chain — an open chain of atoms, usually carbon, with no side chains attached to it.
- straining arch — an arch for resisting thrusts, as in a flying buttress.
- streptothricin — an antibacterial substance produced by a soil fungus, Actinomyces lavendulae.
- summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
- switch selling — a system of selling, now illegal in Britain, whereby potential customers are attracted by a special offer on some goods but the salesman's real aim is to sell other more expensive goods instead
- sycophantishly — in a sycophantish manner
- synoptic chart — a chart showing the distribution of meteorological conditions over a wide region at a given moment.
- synthetic fuel — fuel in the form of liquid or gas (synthetic natural gas) manufactured from coal or in the form of oil extracted from shale or tar sands.
- tacking stitch — a long, loose, temporary stitch used in dressmaking, etc
- teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
- technicalities — technical methods and vocabulary
- the omniscient — God
- the resistance — an illegal organization fighting for national liberty in a country under enemy occupation, esp in France during World War II
- thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
- thick and fast — If things happen thick and fast, they happen very quickly and in large numbers.
- throwing stick — a short, straight or curved stick, flat or cylindrical in form, often having a hand grip, and used generally in preliterate societies as a hunting weapon to throw at birds and small game.
- trans-physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- trichomoniasis — a sexually transmitted disease typically asymptomatic in men and resulting in vaginitis with a copious, frothy discharge and itching in women, caused by a trichomonad Trichomonas vaginalis.
- trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
- turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
- tymshare, inc. — (company) The US company that created the TYMNET network.
- unchauvinistic — not chauvinistic
- unchristianize — to make unchristian; to render no longer Christian; to remove Christian status or nature from
- unenthusiastic — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
- unhysterically — in a way that does not show or suggest any hysteria; calmly; rationally
- unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
- unsophisticate — not sophisticated
- wainscot chair — an armchair of the 17th century, made of oak and having a solid paneled back.
- walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- whistling duck — any of several long-legged, chiefly tropical ducks of the genus Dendrocygna, most of which have whistling cries.
- winter clothes — the type of heavy, warm clothing that people tend to wear in very cold weather