13-letter words containing s, c, h, o, l, u
- glucochlorose — chloralose.
- hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
- hemicellulose — any of a group of gummy polysaccharides, intermediate in complexity between sugar and cellulose, that hydrolyze to monosaccharides more readily than cellulose.
- heteroclitous — heteroclite
- hexadactylous — hexadactylic
- holosericeous — covered with short, silky hairs.
- honour school — (at Oxford University) one of the courses of study leading to an honours degree
- horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
- house counsel — a lawyer drawing a full-time salary from a corporation that he or she represents.
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
- hyposulphuric — relating to sulphur which is in a lower state of oxidation than it is in sulphuric compounds
- in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- insulin shock — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
- isochronously — In an isochronous manner.
- john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
- junior school — a school for children aged seven to eleven, similar to a U.S. elementary school.
- lace-up shoes — shoes which are fastened with laces
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- lecherousness — The property of being lecherous.
- leptocephalus — a colorless, transparent, flattened larva, especially of certain eels and ocean fishes.
- lissotrichous — having straight hair.
- lophotrichous — (biology, of bacteria) Having multiple flagella located at the same point, so that they can act in concert to drive the bacterium in a single direction.
- luncheonettes — Plural form of luncheonette.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
- melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
- melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
- mesocephalous — Alternative form of mesocephalic.
- microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
- microphyllous — having microphylls
- mischievously — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- muscle shoals — former rapids of the Tennessee River in SW Alabama, changed into a lake by Wilson Dam: part of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
- non-scheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
- phyllocladous — having phylloclades.
- physoclistous — having the air bladder closed off from the mouth.
- polychotomous — divided into multiple parts
- postholocaust — following a holocaust
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- public school — (in the U.S.) a school that is maintained at public expense for the education of the children of a community or district and that constitutes a part of a system of free public education commonly including primary and secondary schools.
- quelque chose — a trifle
- quelque-chose — kickshaw.
- 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 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
- self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
- smooth muscle — involuntary muscle tissue in the walls of viscera and blood vessels, consisting of nonstriated, spindle-shaped cells.
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
- summer school — study programs offered by a school, college, or university during the summer to those who wish to obtain their degrees more quickly, who must make up credits, or who wish to supplement their education.