11-letter words containing s, c, h, o
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
- deinonychus — a genus of carnivorous dinosaur which existed in the early Cretaceous period, notable for the unusually large curved claws on the second toe of its feet
- deschooling — to abolish or phase out traditional schools from, so as to replace them with alternative methods and forms of education.
- diachronism — the passage of a geological formation across time planes, as occurs when a marine sediment laid down by an advancing sea is noticeably younger in the direction of advancement
- diastrophic — Also called tectonism. the action of the forces that cause the earth's crust to be deformed, producing continents, mountains, changes of level, etc.
- dicephalous — having two heads
- dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
- dichotomies — Botany. a mode of branching by constant forking, as in some stems, in veins of leaves, etc.
- dichotomise — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichotomist — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichotomous — divided or dividing into two parts.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dichroscope — an instrument for investigating the dichroism of solutions or crystals
- disc harrow — a harrow with sharp-edged slightly concave discs mounted on horizontal shafts and used to cut clods or debris on the surface of the soil or to cover seed after planting
- disc plough — a plough that cuts by means of revolving steel discs
- discography — a selective or complete list of phonograph recordings, typically of one composer, performer, or conductor.
- discophoran — a member of the Discophora group
- discotheque — a nightclub for dancing to live or recorded music and often featuring sophisticated sound systems, elaborate lighting, and other effects.
- disharmonic — lacking harmony; disharmonious; discordant.
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- dower chest — a Pennsylvania Dutch hope chest bearing the initials of the owner.
- duotheistic — Of or relating to duotheism.
- dysharmonic — relating to abnormal bone development
- echinoderms — Plural form of echinoderm.
- echoviruses — Plural form of echovirus.
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- encroachers — Plural form of encroacher.
- endochylous — having water-storing cells
- escarmouche — a skirmish
- escharotomy — A surgical procedure in which an incision is made through eschar to expose the fatty tissue below.
- eschatology — The part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.
- escutcheons — Plural form of escutcheon.
- fianchettos — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fianchetto.
- fish course — A fish course is a part of a meal in which fish is served, usually before the entrée.
- fish doctor — a scaleless, brightly colored eelpout, Gymnelis viridis, of Arctic waters.
- flesh color — (no longer in common use; now considered offensive) a yellowish pink or pinkish cream color (approximating the skin color of a white person).
- fletschhorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Pennine Alps. 13,110 feet (3999 meters).
- fourchettes — Plural form of fourchette.
- free school — a privately run school organized as an alternative to the traditional public or private school, usually following a highly flexible approach to the curriculum and teaching methods.
- french rose — Provence rose.
- gastrotrich — any of the microscopic, multicellular animals of the class or phylum Gastrotricha, of fresh or salt waters, characterized by bands of cilia on the ventral surface of the bottle-shaped or ribbony body and by a protrusible feeding apparatus at the mouth.
- geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- geostrophic — of or relating to the balance between the Coriolis force and the horizontal pressure force in the atmosphere.
- geotechnics — the application of science in order to utilize the earth's natural resources in engineering projects
- ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
- ghostscript — (graphics, tool) The GNU interpreter for PostScript and PDF, with previewers for serval systems and many fonts. Ghostscript was originally written by L. Peter Deutsch <[email protected]> of Aladdin Enterprises. The first public release was v1.0 on 1988-08-11.
- goat cheese — a cheese containing goat's milk, either alone or mixed with cow's milk, usually having a stronger flavor than one made of cow's milk alone.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.