13-letter words containing l, c, h
- singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
- sister school — a university or college which is financially, historically or socially linked to another
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
- slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
- slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
- slipper chair — a small bedroom chair with a low seat.
- slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
- smooth collie — a breed of short-haired collie with a smooth, thick coat.
- smooth muscle — involuntary muscle tissue in the walls of viscera and blood vessels, consisting of nonstriated, spindle-shaped cells.
- social phobia — a type of anxiety disorder characterized by shyness and heightened self-consciousness in particular social situations
- solar chariot — (in ancient Egypt) a chariot placed in the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
- sophistically — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- space shuttle — any of several U.S. space vehicles consisting of a reusable manned orbiter that touches down on a landing strip after an orbital mission, two reusable solid rocket boosters that drop off after initial ascent, and an expendable external tank containing liquid propellants.
- speech bubble — cartoon: spoken text in a balloon
- speech clinic — a place at which specialists in speech therapy reeducate those with a speech handicap.
- speech island — a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
- speechfulness — the state of being full of speech or expression
- spell checker — a computer program for checking the spelling of words in an electronic document.
- spell-checker — A spell-checker is a special program on a computer which you can use to check whether something you have written contains any spelling mistakes.
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- spine-chiller — a book, film, etc, that arouses terror
- splanchnocele — a primitive embryonic body cavity
- splanchnology — the visceral system
- 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.
- steeplechaser — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
- suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
- 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.
- sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
- superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
- superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- sympatholytic — opposing the effects of stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- synchronology — combined chronology
- synchronously — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
- synecdochical — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
- synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
- tachyphylaxis — Medicine/Medical. immediate, temporary immunization against the effects of injection of a toxic extract owing to previous small injections of the same extract.
- talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
- tax schedules — the different ways of classifying income under tax law
- teachableness — the quality or condition of being teachable
- techno-babble — technical jargon relating to computing and other technological subjects
- technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
- technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- technologized — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- technopolitan — of or relating to a place or society dominated by technology
- telemechanics — the science or practice of operating mechanisms by remote control.
- telencephalic — the anterior section of the forebrain comprising the cerebrum and related structures.
- telencephalon — the anterior section of the forebrain comprising the cerebrum and related structures.
- tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
- thalassocracy — dominion over the seas, as in exploration, trade, or colonization.