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13-letter words containing s, a, l, c, h, o

  • psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
  • psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
  • psychoanalyst — a person trained to practice psychoanalysis.
  • psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
  • psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
  • psychological — of or relating to psychology.
  • psychotically — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
  • ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
  • rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
  • rochelle salt — a white crystalline double salt, sodium potassium tartrate, used in Seidlitz powder. Formula: KNaC4H4O6.4H2O
  • saccharolytic — of or causing the hydrolysis of sugars.
  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • 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.
  • scallop shell — the shell of a scallop
  • scaphocephaly — premature closure of the sagittal suture resulting in a deformed skull having an elongated, keellike shape.
  • scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
  • scholasticate — a course of study for seminarians, taken prior to their theological studies.
  • scholasticism — (sometimes initial capital letter) the system of theological and philosophical teaching predominant in the Middle Ages, based chiefly upon the authority of the church fathers and of Aristotle and his commentators.
  • school leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
  • school of law — (in Chinese philosophy) a Neo-Confucian school asserting the existence of transcendent universals, which form individual objects from a primal matter otherwise formless.
  • school phobia — a fear of going to or returning to school
  • schoolmarmish — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
  • schoolteacher — a teacher in a school, especially in one below the college level.
  • 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
  • scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
  • sea hollyhock — a rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos.
  • self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
  • semiochemical — a chemical substance produced by an animal and used in communications, such as a pheromone
  • shambolically — in a completely disorganized or chaotic manner
  • shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
  • 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.
  • slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
  • 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.
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • splanchnocele — a primitive embryonic body cavity
  • splanchnology — the visceral system
  • sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
  • sympatholytic — opposing the effects of stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • 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.
  • thalassocracy — dominion over the seas, as in exploration, trade, or colonization.
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
  • the holocaust — the systematic, genocidal destruction of over six million European Jews by the Nazis before and during WWII
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
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