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

  • novocherkassk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Rostov.
  • nymphaeaceous — belonging to the Nymphaeaceae, the water lily family of plants.
  • ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
  • octagon house — a type of American house, c. 1850, having an octagonal perimeter to reduce exterior wall area.
  • officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
  • offshore dock — a floating dock moored to pilings, dolphins, etc., used for cleaning and repairing medium-sized vessels.
  • on the stocks — in preparation or under construction
  • onychorrhexis — (pathology) fingernail and toenail brittleness and breakage, such as may be due to excessive strong soap and water exposure, nail polish remover, hypothyroidism, anemia, anorexia nervosa or bulimia, or after oral retinoid therapy.
  • open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
  • opthalmoscope — Misspelling of ophthalmoscope.
  • orchesography — a written study of dancing
  • orchestra pit — musicians' seating in front of stage
  • orchestra-pit — a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.
  • orchestralist — a person who writes or arranges orchestral music
  • orchestrating — Present participle of orchestrate.
  • orchestration — (uncountable) the arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra.
  • orchestrators — Plural form of orchestrator.
  • orchiectomies — Plural form of orchiectomy.
  • orthosilicate — a silicate mineral
  • outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
  • overachievers — Plural form of overachiever.
  • overstretched — to stretch excessively.
  • oystercatcher — any of several long-billed wading birds of the genus Haematopus that have chiefly black-and-white plumage and that feed on oysters, clams, mussels, etc.
  • packet switch — packet switching
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • parasynthetic — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
  • paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
  • pas de cheval — a step in which the dancer hops on one foot and paws the ground with the other.
  • pass the buck — Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
  • passchendaele — a village in NW Belgium, in West Flanders province: the scene of heavy fighting during the third battle of Ypres in World War I during which 245 000 British troops were lost
  • peach blossom — the flower of the peach tree: the state flower of Delaware.
  • pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
  • pencil-pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
  • pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
  • petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
  • phallic phase — the time from about age three to five when the genitals become the focus of a child's sensual pleasure.
  • pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
  • pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
  • phase encoded — (storage)   (PE) A recording method used for 1600 BPI magnetic tapes. Compare NRZI, GCR.
  • phelloplastic — an image or a representation that has been fashioned from cork
  • phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
  • phonendoscope — an instrument that amplifies small sounds, esp within the human body
  • photocomposer — a machine for setting type photographically.
  • physical file — (file system)   A low-level view of the physical characteristics of a file, such as its location on a disk or its physical structure, for example, whether indexed or sequential.
  • physicalities — the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
  • physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
  • physitheistic — of, relating to, or believing in physitheism
  • phytocoenosis — the plants of a given area considered as a whole.
  • pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
  • piece of shit — despicable person
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