13-letter words containing o, r, c, h, a, d
- orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
- orchidomaniac — a person who is obsessed with or has a passion for orchids
- orthopaedical — Pertaining to orthopaedics; characteristic of orthopaedia.
- powder charge — propellant (def 2).
- protochordate — any of the nonvertebrate chordates, as the tunicates, cephalochordates, and hemichordates.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
- ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
- reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
- redondo beach — a city in SW California.
- sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
- scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
- scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
- tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
- the decameron — title of collection of stories written in Italian in the early Renaissance by Boccaccio
- the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
- the-decameron — a collection of 100 tales (1353) by Boccaccio.
- thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
- thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
- thiocarbamide — thiourea.
- thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
- thoracic duct — the main trunk of the lymphatic system, passing along the spinal column in the thoracic cavity, and conveying a large amount of lymph and chyle into the venous circulation.
- thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
- three old cat — three-a-cat.
- turbo-charged — A turbo-charged engine or vehicle is fitted with a turbo.
- unchlorinated — not chlorinated; not treated with chlorine
- weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
- well-anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- windsor chair — a wooden chair of many varieties, having a spindle back and legs slanting outward: common in 18th-century England and in the American colonies.