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14-letter words containing s, h, a, c, e

  • stand the pace — to keep up with the speed or rate of others
  • starch blocker — a substance ingested in the belief that it inhibits the body's ability to metabolize starch and thereby promotes weight loss: declared illegal in the U.S. by the FDA.
  • starch-reduced — (of food, esp bread) having the starch content reduced, as in proprietary slimming products
  • steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
  • stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
  • stegocephalous — having the characteristics of the order Stegocephala
  • stereochemical — of, relating to, stereochemistry
  • stock exchange — a building or place where stocks and other securities are bought and sold.
  • stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
  • straight-faced — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
  • straightjacket — to put in or as in a straitjacket: Her ambition was straitjacketed by her family.
  • stretchability — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
  • stretcher case — someone who has to be taken away on a stretcher because they are too ill to walk
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • subtherapeutic — indicating a dosage, as of a drug or vitamin, less than the amount required for a therapeutic effect.
  • sulphacetamide — a topical antibiotic of the sulphonamide group, used to treat eye infections, as well as skin infections including acne
  • supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
  • supply teacher — A supply teacher is a teacher whose job is to take the place of other teachers at different schools when they are unable to be there.
  • surinam cherry — a tropical American tree, Eugenia uniflora, of the myrtle family, having ovate leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
  • teach a lesson — give a class, give instruction
  • teacher's aide — A teacher's aide is a person who helps a teacher in a school classroom but who is not a qualified teacher.
  • teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
  • technicalities — technical methods and vocabulary
  • terraced house — A terraced house or a terrace house is one of a row of similar houses joined together by their side walls.
  • tetrachotomous — divided into four parts
  • the all blacks — the international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the black caps — the international cricket team of New Zealand
  • the black isle — a peninsula in NE Scotland, in Highland council area, between the Cromarty and Moray Firths
  • the cretaceous — the Cretaceous period or rock system
  • the ice blacks — the international ice hockey team of New Zealand
  • the resistance — an illegal organization fighting for national liberty in a country under enemy occupation, esp in France during World War II
  • the rheumatics — rheumatic pains
  • the salicaceae — a chiefly N temperate family of trees and shrubs having catkins: includes the willows and poplars
  • the soo canals — the two ship canals linking Lakes Superior and Huron. There is a canal on the Canadian and on the US side of the rapids of the St Mary's River
  • the space race — competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to be the superior power in outer space, in terms of exploration, manned space flights, and lunar landings; it is generally considered as beginning in 1957 and ending in the mid-1970s
  • thermoacoustic — pertaining to a method of cooling using air driven with acoustic power.
  • thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
  • thymelaeaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Thymelaeaceae, a family of trees and shrubs having tough acrid bark and simple leaves: includes spurge laurel, leatherwood, and mezereon
  • tip the scales — to exercise a decisive influence
  • to be the case — If you say that something is the case, you mean that it is true or correct.
  • top-hat scheme — a pension scheme for the senior executives of an organization
  • trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
  • treasure chest — A treasure chest is a box containing treasure.
  • treasury bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
  • trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
  • turn the scale — Often, scales. a balance or any of various other instruments or devices for weighing: We gave the parents a baby scale. The butcher placed the meat on the scales.
  • two-horse race — a competition, election, etc, in which there are only two teams or candidates with a chance of winning
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