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14-letter words containing s, h, c, i

  • psychogalvanic — pertaining to or involving electric changes in the body resulting from reactions to mental or emotional stimuli.
  • psychogenetics — the study of internal or mental states
  • psychographics — the use of demographics to determine the attitudes and tastes of a particular segment of a population, as in marketing studies.
  • psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
  • psychophysical — the branch of psychology that deals with the relationships between physical stimuli and resulting sensations and mental states.
  • psychosocially — from a psychosocial point of view
  • psychosomatics — the study of psychosomatic conditions
  • psychotechnics — the use of psychological techniques for controlling and modifying human behavior, especially for practical ends.
  • public housing — housing owned or operated by a government and usually offered at low rent to the needy.
  • purchase price — cost at which sth is bought
  • pyramid scheme — pyramid (def 8).
  • pyrophosphoric — as in pyrophosphoric acid, a type of acid
  • quasi-mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
  • quicksilverish — resembling quicksilver
  • radiochemistry — the chemical study of radioactive elements, both natural and artificial, and their use in the study of chemical processes.
  • rafraichissoir — a table of the 18th century having a cooler for bottles and shelves for plates.
  • rags to riches — You use rags to riches to describe the way in which someone quickly becomes very rich after they have been quite poor.
  • ranch dressing — seasoned mayonnaise sauce
  • recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
  • residence hall — Residence halls are buildings with rooms or apartments, usually built by universities or colleges, in which students live during the school year.
  • rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • rhythm section — band instruments, as drums or bass, that supply rhythm rather than harmony or melody.
  • richard scarry — Richard McClure, 1919–94, U.S. author and illustrator of children's books.
  • rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
  • ross ice shelf — an ice barrier filling the S part of the Ross Sea.
  • running stitch — a sewing stitch made by passing the needle in and out repeatedly with short, even stitches.
  • russian church — the autocephalous Eastern Church in Russia: the branch of the Orthodox Church that constituted the established church in Russia until 1917.
  • saccharic acid — a white, needlelike, crystalline, water-soluble solid or syrup, C 6 H 1 0 O 8 , usually made by the oxidation of cane sugar, glucose, or starch by nitric acid.
  • sacchariferous — containing or yielding sugar.
  • sacred history — history that is retold with the aim of instilling religious faith and which may or may not be founded on fact
  • sado-masochism — Sado-masochism is the enjoyment of hurting people and being hurt.
  • saint nicholas — Saint ("Nicholas the Great") died a.d. 867, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 858–867.
  • sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
  • sandhill crane — a North American crane, Grus canadensis, having bluish-gray plumage and a red forehead.
  • sandwich board — two connected posters or signboards that hang in front of and behind a person and usually bear some advertisement, notice, exhortation, or the like.
  • sandwich glass — any of various forms of glassware manufactured at Sandwich, Mass., from 1825 to c1890.
  • sandwich panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.
  • scaphocephalic — premature closure of the sagittal suture resulting in a deformed skull having an elongated, keellike shape.
  • scented orchid — a slender orchid, Gymnadenia conopsea, with fragrant pink flowers carried in a dense spike and having a three-lobed lip; found in calcareous turf
  • sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • schematization — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
  • scheme library — (library)   (SLIB) A portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility functions for all standard Scheme implementations. Version 2c5 supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK, GAMBIT, MacScheme, MITScheme, PocketScheme, RScheme, Scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, SCSH, T3.1, UMB-Scheme, and VSCM.
  • schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • schizo-phrenic — Psychiatry. of or relating to schizophrenia: Not all of these patients are schizophrenic.
  • schizognathous — (of birds) having a separation in the vomer and maxillo-palatine bones, having a cleft-palate
  • schizophyceous — belonging to the Schizophyceae, a group of unicellular bluish-green algae, occurring in both salt and fresh water and often causing pollution of drinking water.
  • schleiermacher — Friedrich Ernst Daniel [free-drikh ernst dah-nee-el] /ˈfri drɪx ɛrnst ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1768–1834, German theologian and philosopher.
  • schlockmeister — a person who deals in or sells inferior or worthless goods; junk dealer.
  • schmidt system — a wide-angle optical system having a concave, spherical mirror whose aberration is neutralized by a correcting lens: often used in special, photographic reflecting telescopes to obtain clear pictures of large areas of the celestial sphere
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