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13-letter words containing l, c, h

  • polytechnical — relating to a technical school
  • pomme blanche — breadroot.
  • postholocaust — following a holocaust
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • preacher curl — a weightlifting exercise for the biceps in which a barbell is lifted by flexing the elbows, with the upper arms resting on an angled bench
  • principalship — first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost.
  • prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
  • psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
  • psychoanalyst — a person trained to practice psychoanalysis.
  • psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
  • psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
  • psychobiology — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
  • psychological — of or relating to psychology.
  • psychotically — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
  • psychrophilic — (esp of bacteria) showing optimum growth at low temperatures
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
  • public school — (in the U.S.) a school that is maintained at public expense for the education of the children of a community or district and that constitutes a part of a system of free public education commonly including primary and secondary schools.
  • pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
  • pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • quelque chose — a trifle
  • quelque-chose — kickshaw.
  • quiller-couch — Sir Arthur Thomas ("Q") 1863–1944, English novelist and critic.
  • radical right — the faction representing extreme right-wing political views; ultraconservatives; reactionaries.
  • radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
  • ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
  • ratchet wheel — a wheel, with teeth on the edge, into which a pawl drops or catches, as to prevent reversal of motion or convert reciprocating motion into rotatory motion.
  • rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
  • reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
  • record holder — sb officially recorded as best at sth
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • reform school — reformatory (def 2).
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
  • rheologically — in a rheological manner
  • rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
  • rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • richmond hill — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, N of Toronto.
  • richter scale — a scale, ranging from 1 to 10, for indicating the intensity of an earthquake.
  • riding school — a place where equitation is taught.
  • rochelle salt — a white crystalline double salt, sodium potassium tartrate, used in Seidlitz powder. Formula: KNaC4H4O6.4H2O
  • roller hockey — a game similar to ice hockey played on roller skates.
  • rolling hitch — a hitch on a spar or the like, composed of two round turns and a half hitch so disposed as to jam when a stress is applied parallel to the object on which the hitch is made.
  • royal charter — authorization by the monarchy
  • saccharolytic — of or causing the hydrolysis of sugars.
  • saddle-stitch — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
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