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13-letter words containing s, h, e, c

  • in the secret — among the people who know a secret
  • incoherencies — incoherence.
  • inhabitancies — Plural form of inhabitancy.
  • inspectorship — The condition of being an inspector; the office of an inspector.
  • isochromosome — an abnormal chromosome in which the two arms share identical genetic information
  • jack-the-rags — a rag-and-bone man
  • japanese chin — one of a Japanese breed of toy dogs having a long, silky, black and white or red and white coat and a tail carried over the back.
  • jockey shorts — Jockey shorts are a type of men's underpants.
  • joseph crater — Joseph Force [fawrs,, fohrs] /fɔrs,, foʊrs/ (Show IPA), 1889–? a judge of the New York State Supreme Court: his mysterious disappearance on August 6, 1930, has never been solved.
  • joseph's coat — an ornamental species of pigweed (Amaranthus tricolor) having red, yellow, and green upper leaves
  • joseph's-coat — a cultivated form of Amaranthus tricolor, having headlike clusters of small flowers and blotched and colored leaves.
  • kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
  • kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
  • kettle stitch — (in handsewing) a knot tied in the thread that links one section to the next.
  • kettle-stitch — a stitch used in hand-sewn books, at the head and tail, to hold sheets or sections together
  • kinaesthetics — Alternative spelling of kinesthetics.
  • king's speech — (in the British Parliament) a speech reviewing domestic conditions and foreign relations, prepared by the ministry in the name of the sovereign, and read at the opening of the Parliament either by the sovereign in person or by commission.
  • kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
  • knee breeches — trousers worn by men in the past, which came down as far as their knees rather than their ankles
  • kosher pickle — a garlic-flavored pickle, sold especially in Jewish delicatessens.
  • lace-up shoes — shoes which are fastened with laces
  • ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
  • lecherousness — The property of being lecherous.
  • lechosos opal — a variety of opal having a deep-green play of color.
  • leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
  • leptocephalus — a colorless, transparent, flattened larva, especially of certain eels and ocean fishes.
  • letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
  • lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
  • lickerishness — Quality of being lickerish.
  • liechtenstein — a small principality in central Europe between Austria and Switzerland: economically linked with Switzerland. 65 sq. mi. (168 sq. km). Capital: Vaduz.
  • life is cheap — You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
  • light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
  • list enhanced — (operating system, tool)   An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
  • luncheonettes — Plural form of luncheonette.
  • machiavellism — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
  • machine screw — a threaded fastener, either used with a nut or driven into a tapped hole, usually having a diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or less and a slotted head for tightening by a screwdriver.
  • machine-steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
  • macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
  • magnet school — a public school with special programs and instruction that are not available elsewhere in a school district and that are specially designed to draw students from throughout a district, especially to aid in desegregation.
  • maiden speech — the first speech made in a legislature by a newly elected member.
  • make mischief — cause trouble
  • marchionesses — Plural form of marchioness.
  • massachusetts — a state in the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 8257 sq. mi. (21,385 sq. km). Capital: Boston. Abbreviation: MA (for use with zip code), Mass.
  • master switch — a switch that can be used to turn on or off the supply of electricity to a building or to certain equipment
  • match fitness — the condition of being match-fit
  • matchlessness — The state or condition of being matchless.
  • mathematicism — the belief that everything can be explained in mathematical terms
  • mechanisation — Alternative spelling of mechanization.
  • medicine shop — (in Malaysia) a Chinese chemist's shop where traditional herbs are sold as well as modern drugs. It is not, however, a dispensary for prescribed medicines
  • medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.
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