13-letter words containing r, i, c, o, h
- rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
- 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.
- rose of china — China rose (def 2).
- rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
- saccharolytic — of or causing the hydrolysis of sugars.
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
- schizophrenic — Psychiatry. of or relating to schizophrenia: Not all of these patients are schizophrenic.
- scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- school dinner — meal served at educational institution
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
- schoolgirlish — like or characteristic of a schoolgirl
- schoolmarmish — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- scissors hold — a wrestling hold in which one contestant clasps the other with the legs
- scoinson arch — sconcheon arch.
- scorchingness — the state or quality of being scorching
- scorpion fish — any of several tropical and temperate marine scorpaenid fishes, especially members of the genus Scorpaena, many having venomous dorsal spines.
- scottish rite — one of the two advanced divisions of Masonic membership, leading to the 33rd degree.
- scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- senior school — a school for pupils between the ages of 11 or 12 and 17 or 18
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
- shop chairman — a unionized employee elected to represent a shop, department, or the like, in dealings with an employer.
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- short-circuit — Electricity. to make (an appliance, switch, etc.) inoperable by establishing a short circuit in. to carry (a current) as a short circuit.
- sister school — a university or college which is financially, historically or socially linked to another
- solar chariot — (in ancient Egypt) a chariot placed in the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
- south african — of southern Africa.
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- spectatorship — the state of being a spectator
- spherocytosis — the condition of having spherocytes
- spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
- spider orchid — any of several European orchids of the genus Ophrys, esp O. sphegodes, having a flower with yellow, green, or pink sepals and a broad brown velvety lip
- spirochetosis — a disease caused by infection with a spirochete.
- sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
- stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
- stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
- successorship — the position or state of a successor
- 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.
- tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
- tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
- tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina