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13-letter words containing s, c, h, r, a

  • shore terrace — a terrace or bench produced by wave erosion and biochemical attack along the shore of an ocean or a large lake.
  • short account — the account of a short seller.
  • singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
  • slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
  • slipper chair — a small bedroom chair with a low seat.
  • smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
  • snake charmer — an entertainer who seems to charm venomous snakes, usually by music.
  • solar chariot — (in ancient Egypt) a chariot placed in the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • spanish cedar — a tropical American tree, Cedrela odorata, of the mahogany family.
  • spark chamber — a device for detecting elementary particles, consisting of a series of charged plates separated by a gas so that the passage of a charged particle causes sparking between adjacent plates.
  • spectatorship — the state of being a spectator
  • spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • speechreading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
  • squash racket — a light long-handled racket used in the game of squash
  • state chamber — a room for public ceremonies and celebrations.
  • steamer chair — deck chair.
  • steeplechaser — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • stratigraphic — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
  • stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
  • stretch marks — Stretch marks are lines or marks on someone's skin caused by the skin stretching after the person's weight has changed rapidly. Women who have had children often have stretch marks.
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
  • supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
  • superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
  • suprachiasmic — relating to the area in the hypothalamus that regulates the biological clock
  • surbased arch — drop arch (def 2).
  • surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
  • switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
  • tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
  • tautochronous — having the character of a tautochrone
  • teacher's pet — a pupil who is a favorite of a teacher.
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • thalassocracy — dominion over the seas, as in exploration, trade, or colonization.
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
  • the necessary — the money required for a particular purpose
  • the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
  • the-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
  • theatricalism — conduct suggesting theatrical actions or mannerisms, especially of an extravagant or exhibitionist sort.
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
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