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

  • splanchnocele — a primitive embryonic body cavity
  • sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
  • spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
  • squash racket — a light long-handled racket used in the game of squash
  • stagecoachman — the driver or operator of a stagecoach
  • stamp machine — a machine used for stamping documents, as with the time, etc
  • state chamber — a room for public ceremonies and celebrations.
  • steamer chair — deck chair.
  • steeplechaser — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • stem christie — a turn made by stemming one ski and then bringing the other parallel to it during the turn.
  • stethoscopist — a person who is experienced in the use of a stethoscope
  • sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
  • stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
  • stomach upset — a slight illness affecting your stomach and/or bowels characterized by nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea
  • straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
  • street hockey — road hockey.
  • street urchin — a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
  • stretch marks — Stretch marks are lines or marks on someone's skin caused by the skin stretching after the person's weight has changed rapidly. Women who have had children often have stretch marks.
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • successorship — the position or state of a successor
  • suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
  • summer school — study programs offered by a school, college, or university during the summer to those who wish to obtain their degrees more quickly, who must make up credits, or who wish to supplement their education.
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
  • superencipher — to encode (a message) that is already a cryptogram.
  • supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
  • superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
  • superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
  • surbased arch — drop arch (def 2).
  • surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
  • switch engine — a locomotive for switching rolling stock in a yard.
  • switch-hitter — to be able to bat from either side of the plate, or both as a left-handed and as a right-handed batter.
  • switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
  • sympathectomy — surgery that interrupts a nerve pathway of the sympathetic or involuntary nervous system.
  • synecdochical — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • synecphonesis — the fusion of two syllables into one
  • synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
  • tachistoscope — an apparatus for use in exposing visual stimuli, as pictures, letters, or words, for an extremely brief period, used chiefly to assess visual perception or to increase reading speed.
  • tax schedules — the different ways of classifying income under tax law
  • teachableness — the quality or condition of being teachable
  • teacher's pet — a pupil who is a favorite of a teacher.
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • telemechanics — the science or practice of operating mechanisms by remote control.
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
  • testing bench — a piece of equipment for testing if a machine or device is working properly
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • the ascension — the bodily ascent of Jesus into heaven on the fortieth day after the Resurrection: Acts 1:9
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
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