13-letter words containing s, c, h, m, o, e
- encroachments — Plural form of encroachment.
- ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
- fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
- haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
- heliocentrism — The theory that the sun is the center of the universe, (This theory is historically important and was widely accepted at the time of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.).
- hemicellulose — any of a group of gummy polysaccharides, intermediate in complexity between sugar and cellulose, that hydrolyze to monosaccharides more readily than cellulose.
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- hemocytoblast — a primordial cell capable of developing into any type of blood cell.
- hepatectomies — Plural form of hepatectomy.
- hermosa beach — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- histochemical — the branch of science dealing with the chemical components of cellular and subcellular tissue.
- home comforts — things in a house that make it comfortable
- home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
- home-schooler — to teach (one's children) at home instead of sending them to school.
- homeschoolers — Plural form of homeschooler.
- homeschooling — a school set up in the home.
- homestead act — a special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.
- homoeroticism — a tendency to be sexually aroused by a member of the same sex.
- homoscedastic — having the same variance.
- honey stomach — the crop of an ant, bee, or other hymenopterous insect, serving as a reservoir for honeydew and nectar, especially the enlarged crop of a honeybee in which nectar is acted on by enzymes to form honey.
- host computer — the main computer in a network: controls or performs certain functions for other computers.
- hypsometrical — Of or pertaining to hypsometry.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- immunochemist — A chemist whose speciality is immunochemistry.
- isochromosome — an abnormal chromosome in which the two arms share identical genetic information
- macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
- magnet school — a public school with special programs and instruction that are not available elsewhere in a school district and that are specially designed to draw students from throughout a district, especially to aid in desegregation.
- marchionesses — Plural form of marchioness.
- mechanisation — Alternative spelling of mechanization.
- medicine shop — (in Malaysia) a Chinese chemist's shop where traditional herbs are sold as well as modern drugs. It is not, however, a dispensary for prescribed medicines
- medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.
- melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
- melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
- mesencephalon — Anatomy. the midbrain.
- mesocephalism — mesocephaly
- mesocephalous — Alternative form of mesocephalic.
- metachromasia — A characteristic change in the colour of staining carried out in biological tissues, exhibited by certain aniline dyes when they bind to particular substances present in these tissues, called chromotropes.
- methodistical — Methodistic.
- microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
- microswitches — Plural form of microswitch.
- middle school — a school intermediate between elementary school and high school, usually encompassing grades five or six through eight.
- mischievously — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- miscomprehend — Misunderstand.
- mnemotechnics — the process or technique of improving or developing the memory.
- mohr's circle — a graphical construction enabling the stresses in the cross-section of a body to be determined if the principal stresses are known
- moneychangers — Plural form of moneychanger.
- monochlorides — Plural form of monochloride.
- morphometrics — a technique of taxonomic analysis using measurements of the form of organisms
- moustache cup — mustache cup.
- muscle shoals — former rapids of the Tennessee River in SW Alabama, changed into a lake by Wilson Dam: part of the Tennessee Valley Authority.