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13-letter words containing l, e, t, c, h, a

  • polytechnical — relating to a technical school
  • prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
  • richter scale — a scale, ranging from 1 to 10, for indicating the intensity of an earthquake.
  • rochelle salt — a white crystalline double salt, sodium potassium tartrate, used in Seidlitz powder. Formula: KNaC4H4O6.4H2O
  • royal charter — authorization by the monarchy
  • saddle-stitch — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
  • scandal sheet — a newspaper or magazine that emphasizes scandal or gossip.
  • scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
  • schematically — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
  • scholasticate — a course of study for seminarians, taken prior to their theological studies.
  • schoolteacher — a teacher in a school, especially in one below the college level.
  • schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
  • 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.
  • scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
  • self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
  • semi-mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
  • share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
  • shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
  • singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
  • sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
  • 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.
  • steeplechaser — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • the afflicted — afflicted people considered collectively
  • the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
  • the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
  • the cup final — the annual final of the FA Cup soccer competition, played at Wembley, or the Scottish Cup, played at Hampden Park
  • the holocaust — the systematic, genocidal destruction of over six million European Jews by the Nazis before and during WWII
  • the new black — If you say that a particular colour is the new black, you mean that it has become fashionable.
  • the paleocene — the Paleocene Epoch or its rocks
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