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13-letter words containing s, c, h, i

  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • 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.
  • rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
  • saccharimeter — an optical instrument for determining the strength of sugar solutions by measuring the rotation of the plane of polarized light they produce.
  • saccharimetry — the process of measuring the amount of sugar in a sample, as with a saccharimeter or by polarimetry.
  • saccharolytic — of or causing the hydrolysis of sugars.
  • saddle-stitch — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • sadomasochism — interaction, especially sexual activity, in which one person enjoys inflicting physical or mental suffering on another person, who derives pleasure from experiencing pain.
  • sadomasochist — interaction, especially sexual activity, in which one person enjoys inflicting physical or mental suffering on another person, who derives pleasure from experiencing pain.
  • saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
  • sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht
  • sandwich beam — flitch beam.
  • sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
  • sandwich coin — a coin having a layer of one metal between outside layers of another, as a quarter with a layer of copper between layers of silver.
  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • saratoga chip — potato chip.
  • scabbard fish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
  • scene shifter — a person who changes scenes during a play
  • schematically — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
  • schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • schizaeaceous — relating to a type of extinct fern
  • schizogenesis — reproduction by fission.
  • schizogenetic — reproducing or formed by fission.
  • schizomycetes — any of numerous microorganisms of the subkingdom (or phylum) Schizophyta, kingdom Monera, comprising the bacteria.
  • schizomycosis — any disease due to schizomycetes.
  • 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.
  • 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 choice — an educational policy based on vouchers or scholarships, allowing students their choice of private or public school.
  • 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.
  • school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
  • school phobia — a fear of going to or returning to school
  • 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.
  • schreibersite — a mineral, iron-nickel phosphide, (Fe, Ni) 3 P, found only in meteorites.
  • schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
  • schwärmerisch — excessively or extremely enthusiastic
  • scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
  • 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.
  • scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
  • scotch whisky — whiskey distilled in Scotland, especially from malted barley in a pot still.
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