13-letter words containing o, r, c, h
- sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
- 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.
- synchondrosis — the joining of two bones by cartilage
- synchronicity — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- synchronistic — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- synchronizing — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- synchronology — combined chronology
- synchronously — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
- tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
- tautochronous — having the character of a tautochrone
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
- terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
- tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
- tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
- thalassocracy — dominion over the seas, as in exploration, trade, or colonization.
- the boat race — a rowing event held annually in the spring, in which an eight representing Oxford University rows against one representing Cambridge University on the Thames between Putney and Mortlake
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
- the comforter — the Holy Spirit: John 14:26
- the decameron — title of collection of stories written in Italian in the early Renaissance by Boccaccio
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
- the-decameron — a collection of 100 tales (1353) by Boccaccio.
- the-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
- theoretically — of, relating to, or consisting in theory; not practical (distinguished from applied).
- theriomorphic — (of deities) thought of or represented as having the form of beasts.
- thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
- thermobalance — an analytical balance that measures weight changes when matter is heated
- thermocurrent — a thermoelectric current.
- thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
- thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
- thermonuclear — relating to nuclear fusion
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thermospheric — pertaining to the thermosphere
- thermostatics — the branch of science concerned with thermal equilibrium
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- thiocarbamide — thiourea.
- thiosulphuric — of or relating to thiosulphuric acid or anything derived from it
- thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
- thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
- thoracenteses — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
- thoracentesis — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
- 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.
- thoracolumbar — of the thoracic and lumbar regions
- thoracoplasty — the operation removing selected portions of the ribs to collapse part of the underlying lung or an abnormal pleural space, usually in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- thoroughbrace — either of two strong leather straps upon which the body of certain types of carriage is supported
- thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
- three old cat — three-a-cat.
- thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
- throttle back — If you throttle back, or you throttle back the engine, when driving a motor vehicle or flying an aircraft, you make it go slower by reducing the quantity of fuel entering the engine.