13-letter words containing s, c, h, a, l, t
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- sympatholytic — opposing the effects of stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
- tachyphylaxis — Medicine/Medical. immediate, temporary immunization against the effects of injection of a toxic extract owing to previous small injections of the same extract.
- tax schedules — the different ways of classifying income under tax law
- teachableness — the quality or condition of being teachable
- telemechanics — the science or practice of operating mechanisms by remote control.
- 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
- the-alchemist — a comedy (1610) by Ben Jonson.
- theatricalism — conduct suggesting theatrical actions or mannerisms, especially of an extravagant or exhibitionist sort.
- 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.
- 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.
- thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
- treacherously — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
- tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
- ultraphysical — extremely physical
- unchastisable — not deserving to be chastised; beyond reproach
- unethicalness — lacking moral principles; unwilling to adhere to proper rules of conduct.
- unscratchable — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- unstaunchable — incapable of being stopped
- unstretchable — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
- watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
- western larch — a North American larch, Larix occidentalis, having oval cones and found mainly in S British Columbia
- wholistically — Alternative form of holistically.
- wichita falls — a city in N Texas.
- zinc sulphate — a colourless soluble crystalline substance usually existing as the heptahydrate or monohydrate: used as a mordant, in preserving wood and skins, and in the electrodeposition of zinc. Formula: ZnSO4