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

  • associateship — to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc.: Many people associate dark clouds with depression and gloom.
  • asthmatically — In an asthmatic manner.
  • astrophysical — Of or pertaining to astrophysics.
  • atheistically — pertaining to or characteristic of atheists or atheism; containing, suggesting, or disseminating atheism: atheistic literature; atheistic people.
  • athletic shoe — a shoe designed to be worn for sports, exercising, or recreational activity, as racquetball, jogging, or aerobic dancing.
  • atmospherical — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
  • auction house — a commercial company that specializes in selling items at auction
  • audiographics — audiographic teleconferencing
  • authenticates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of authenticate.
  • autocatharsis — a therapeutic process designed to free unconscious disturbances by having the patient write about his or her experiences, impressions, etc.
  • automechanism — an automatic mechanical system or component, especially a device that operates automatically under predetermined conditions.
  • autorickshaws — Plural form of autorickshaw.
  • autoschediasm — anything done with little forethought or preparation
  • autoschediaze — to do or act with little forethought or preparation
  • back straight — a straight part of a circuit, esp of an athletics track or a racecourse, furthest from the finishing point
  • backstitching — Present participle of backstitch.
  • bag-snatching — theft that involves snatching women's handbags
  • balch springs — a town in NE Texas.
  • baltic shield — the wide area of ancient rock in Scandinavia
  • barber's itch — any of various fungal infections of the bearded portion of the neck and face
  • basic english — a simplified form of English, proposed by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, containing a vocabulary of approximately 850 of the commonest English words, intended as an international language
  • behavioristic — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
  • binary search — (algorithm)   A search algorithm which repeatedly divides an ordered search space in half according to how the required (key) value compares with the middle element. The following pseudo-C routine performs a binary search return the index of the element of vector "thing[first..last]" equal to "target": if (target < thing[first] || target > thing[last]) return NOT_FOUND; while (first < last) { mid = (first+last)/2; /* truncate to integer */ if (target == thing[mid]) return mid; if (target < thing[mid]) last = mid-1; else first = mid+1; } if (target == thing[last]) return last; return NOT_FOUND; (2003-01-14)
  • biopsychology — a field of psychology that deals with the effects of biological factors on behavior.
  • biphasic pill — a drug with two dosage levels over the period taken, as an oral contraceptive.
  • bitch goddess — worldly or material success personified as a goddess, especially one requiring sacrifice and being essentially destructive: He went to New York to worship the bitch goddess.
  • bitch session — a discussion in which people complain or gripe, usually about a shared experience: Their first date turned into a four-hour bitch session about their ex-spouses' lawyers.
  • bits per inch — (unit)   (BPI) A measure of the recording density of a magnetic tape or disk.
  • black english — the group of related dialects of American English spoken variously by many black people in the U.S.
  • blacksmithing — the work of a blacksmith.
  • blanchisseuse — a washer-woman
  • blue rockfish — a bluish-black rockfish, Sebastodes mystinus, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters of North America.
  • bois de vache — dried buffalo dung, used as fuel by Canadian and U.S. fur trappers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • bone-crushing — powerful or constricting enough to crush one's bones: a bone-crushing handshake.
  • brachiosaurus — a dinosaur of the genus Brachiosaurus, up to 30 metres long: the largest land animal ever known
  • brie (cheese) — a ripened soft, white cheese made in France, or a similar cheese made elsewhere
  • broca-aphasia — a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Broca's area of the brain, characterized by misarticulated speech and lack of grammatical morphemes.
  • bronchiolitis — a condition in which the small airways in the lungs become inflamed by a virus. It is most common in infants, who become breathless in severe cases. Recurrent attacks may lead to asthma
  • buffalo chips — the dried dung of buffalo used as fuel, especially by early settlers on the western plains.
  • bush sickness — an animal disease caused by a cobalt deficiency in old bush country
  • cactus dahlia — a double-flowered variety of dahlia
  • calligraphist — fancy penmanship, especially highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the calligraphy of the 18th century.
  • callisthenics — light exercises designed to promote general fitness, develop muscle tone, etc
  • candidateship — candidature
  • cape crawfish — an edible South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii.
  • cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
  • cardinal fish — a small brightly coloured fish found in shallow tropical seas, of the family Apogonidae, the male of which often broods eggs in its mouth
  • cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
  • casehardening — Present participle of caseharden.
  • cash dealings — transactions that are carried out using cash
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