8-letter words containing s, c, h, o
- psychro- — cold
- rechoose — to choose (something or someone) again
- reschool — to school again; retrain
- rhonchus — a wheezing or snoring sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by an accumulation of mucus or other material.
- rockfish — any of various fishes found about rocks.
- romansch — a group of Rhaetian dialects spoken in the Swiss canton of Graubünden; an official language of Switzerland since 1938
- scaphoid — boat-shaped; navicular.
- schawlow — Arthur Leonard, 1921–99, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1981.
- schizoid — Psychology. of or relating to a personality disorder marked by dissociation, passivity, withdrawal, inability to form warm social relationships, and indifference to praise or criticism.
- schizont — (in the asexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) a cell developed from a trophozoite, which undergoes multiple fission to form merozoites.
- schlocky — schlock (def 1).
- schmooze — to chat idly; gossip.
- schmoozy — of or relating to schmoozing
- scholium — Often, scholia. an explanatory note or comment. an ancient annotation upon a passage in a Greek or Latin text.
- schooled — a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.
- schooler — an institution where instruction is given, especially to persons under college age: The children are at school.
- schoolie — a fish that swims within a school.
- schooner — Nautical. any of various types of sailing vessel having a foremast and mainmast, with or without other masts, and having fore-and-aft sails on all lower masts. See also ketch, topsail schooner, yawl1 (def 2).
- schröder — Gerhard (ˈɡerhɑt). born 1944, German Social Democrat politician; chancellor of Germany from 1998–2005
- scomfish — to stifle
- scorched — slightly burned
- scorcher — a person or thing that scorches.
- scotched — scutch (defs 2, 4).
- scottish — Also, Scots. of or relating to Scotland, its people, or their language.
- scouther — to scorch or singe
- scrootch — to crouch, squeeze, or huddle (usually followed by down, in, or up).
- selcouth — strange; uncommon.
- shaddock — pomelo.
- shamrock — any of several trifoliate plants, as the wood sorrel, Oxalis acetosella, or a small, pink-flowered clover, Trifolium repens minus, but especially Trifolium procumbens, a small, yellow-flowered clover: the national emblem of Ireland.
- sherlock — a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “fair-haired.”.
- shocking — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
- shockley — William Bradford, 1910–1989, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1956.
- shoelace — a string or lace for fastening a shoe.
- shortcut — a shorter or quicker way.
- showcase — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
- skelloch — a shriek
- slouched — to sit or stand with an awkward, drooping posture.
- sloucher — to sit or stand with an awkward, drooping posture.
- smoocher — to kiss.
- sock hop — an informal dance where participants dance in their socks, popular esp. in the 1950s among high-school students
- sopheric — relating to Jewish scribes
- souchong — a variety of black tea grown in India and Sri Lanka.
- soutache — a narrow braid, commonly of mohair, silk, or rayon, used for trimming.
- splotchy — marked or covered with splotches.
- stilicho — Flavius [fley-vee-uh s] /ˈfleɪ vi əs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 359?–408, Roman general and statesman.
- stockish — like a block of wood; stupid.
- stomachs — Anatomy, Zoology. a saclike enlargement of the alimentary canal, as in humans and certain animals, forming an organ for storing, diluting, and digesting food. such an organ or an analogous portion of the alimentary canal when divided into two or more sections or parts. any one of these sections.
- stomachy — paunchy; having a prominent stomach.
- strophic — Also, strophical. consisting of, pertaining to, or characterized by a strophe or strophes.
- subchord — a part of a chord