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

  • shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
  • shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
  • shell-shocked — battle fatigue.
  • sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
  • shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
  • ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
  • ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
  • shock and awe — US military: use of extreme force
  • shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • shore terrace — a terrace or bench produced by wave erosion and biochemical attack along the shore of an ocean or a large lake.
  • short subject — a short film, as a documentary or travelogue, shown as part of a program with a feature-length film.
  • shower screen — a shower panel
  • sick headache — migraine.
  • sickle-hocked — noting or pertaining to a condition of horses in which the hock, due to strained tendons and ligaments, is flexed so that the foot is abnormally bowed far under the body.
  • silvichemical — any of a number of chemicals derived from a tree.
  • singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
  • sister school — a university or college which is financially, historically or socially linked to another
  • sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
  • slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
  • slipper chair — a small bedroom chair with a low seat.
  • smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
  • smooth collie — a breed of short-haired collie with a smooth, thick coat.
  • smooth muscle — involuntary muscle tissue in the walls of viscera and blood vessels, consisting of nonstriated, spindle-shaped cells.
  • snake charmer — an entertainer who seems to charm venomous snakes, usually by music.
  • socket wrench — a box wrench with a socket that is an extension of the shank.
  • sophisticated — sophisticated.
  • south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • space heating — the heating of a limited area, as a room, by means of a heater (space heater) within the area.
  • space shuttle — any of several U.S. space vehicles consisting of a reusable manned orbiter that touches down on a landing strip after an orbital mission, two reusable solid rocket boosters that drop off after initial ascent, and an expendable external tank containing liquid propellants.
  • spanish cedar — a tropical American tree, Cedrela odorata, of the mahogany family.
  • spark chamber — a device for detecting elementary particles, consisting of a series of charged plates separated by a gas so that the passage of a charged particle causes sparking between adjacent plates.
  • specific heat — the number of calories required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance 1°C, or the number of BTU's per pound per degree F.
  • spectatorship — the state of being a spectator
  • spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • speech bubble — cartoon: spoken text in a balloon
  • speech clinic — a place at which specialists in speech therapy reeducate those with a speech handicap.
  • speech defect — a disorder of speech
  • speech island — a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
  • speech making — act of addressing the public formally
  • speechfulness — the state of being full of speech or expression
  • speechreading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • spell checker — a computer program for checking the spelling of words in an electronic document.
  • spell-checker — A spell-checker is a special program on a computer which you can use to check whether something you have written contains any spelling mistakes.
  • spherocytosis — the condition of having spherocytes
  • spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
  • spider orchid — any of several European orchids of the genus Ophrys, esp O. sphegodes, having a flower with yellow, green, or pink sepals and a broad brown velvety lip
  • spine-chiller — a book, film, etc, that arouses terror
  • spirochetosis — a disease caused by infection with a spirochete.
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