15-letter words containing s, c, o, t, h, l
- hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
- hospital doctor — a hospital doctor works in a hospital, rather than as a general practitioner, in the army, etc
- hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
- hydrostatically — In a hydrostatic manner.
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- hypocortisolism — (medicine) A cortisol deficiency.
- hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
- infants' school — kindergarten.
- interscholastic — between schools, or representative of different schools, especially secondary schools: interscholastic athletics.
- leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
- lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
- lithochromatics — the art or process of painting in oil on stone and taking impressions from the result
- locomotive shed — a shed in which locomotives are kept
- low-cholesterol — containing little dietary cholesterol
- luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
- masochistically — Psychiatry. having a condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering, physical pain, and humiliation.
- medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
- methylcellulose — a grayish-white powder prepared from cellulose that swells to a highly viscous colloidal solution in water: used as a food additive and in water paints, leather tanning, and cosmetics.
- military school — military academy.
- motoring school — an organization that provides driving lessons
- natal horoscope — the horoscope based on an individual's birth.
- national school — (in Ireland) a state primary school
- nicholas, saint — Saint ("Nicholas the Great") died a.d. 867, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 858–867.
- nucleosynthesis — the formation of new atomic nuclei by nuclear reactions, thought to occur in the interiors of stars and in the early stages of development of the universe.
- nucleosynthetic — Of or pertaining to nucleosynthesis.
- oil of the sick — holy oil used in the sacrament of extreme unction.
- old clothes man — a person who deals in second-hand clothes
- ophthalmoscopes — Plural form of ophthalmoscope.
- ophthalmoscopic — Of, pertaining to or using an ophthalmoscope.
- orchestrational — Of or pertaining to orchestration.
- pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.
- phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
- photoelasticity — the phenomenon of double refraction of polarized light by a transparent substance under elastic stress, used to measure strain in elastic, transparent materials.
- physical optics — the branch of optics concerned with the wave properties of light, the superposition of waves, the deviation of light from its rectilinear propagation in a manner other than that considered by geometrical optics, the interaction of light with matter, and the quantum, corpuscular aspects of light.
- physicalization — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
- plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
- psychobiologist — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- psychopathology — the science or study of mental disorders.
- pulchritudinous — physically beautiful; comely.
- quasihistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- rochester hills — city in SE Mich., near Detroit: pop. 69,000
- saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- schillerization — the process of altering crystals to produce schiller
- schola cantorum — an ecclesiastical choir or choir school.
- school district — A school district is an area which includes all the schools that are situated within that area and are governed by a particular authority.
- school teaching — School teaching is the work done by teachers in a school.
- school-gate mum — a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
- scotch highland — any of a breed of small, hardy, usually dun-colored, shaggy-haired beef cattle with long, widespread horns, able to withstand the cold and sparse pasturage of its native western Scottish uplands.
- scottish gaelic — the Gaelic of the Hebrides and the Highlands of Scotland, also spoken as a second language in Nova Scotia.