13-letter words containing s, h, l, o, c
- lymphocytosis — an abnormal increase in the number of lymphocytes in the blood.
- lymphosarcoma — a malignant tumor in lymphatic tissue, caused by the growth of abnormal lymphocytes.
- 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.
- melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
- melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
- mesencephalon — Anatomy. the midbrain.
- mesocephalism — mesocephaly
- mesocephalous — Alternative form of mesocephalic.
- methodistical — Methodistic.
- microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
- microphyllous — having microphylls
- middle school — a school intermediate between elementary school and high school, usually encompassing grades five or six through eight.
- mischievously — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- mohr's circle — a graphical construction enabling the stresses in the cross-section of a body to be determined if the principal stresses are known
- monochlorides — Plural form of monochloride.
- muscle shoals — former rapids of the Tennessee River in SW Alabama, changed into a lake by Wilson Dam: part of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
- myrmecophiles — Plural form of myrmecophile.
- necrophiliacs — Plural form of necrophiliac.
- nicholasville — a town in central Kentucky.
- non-scheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
- non-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- nonhistorical — Not based on or drawn from history.
- nonhysterical — not hysterical or funny
- normal school — (formerly) a school offering a two-year course and certification to high-school graduates preparing to be teachers, especially elementary-school teachers.
- officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
- opthalmoscope — Misspelling of ophthalmoscope.
- orchestralist — a person who writes or arranges orchestral music
- orchidologist — someone who is knowledgeable in orchidology
- orthosilicate — a silicate mineral
- oscillographs — Plural form of oscillograph.
- oscillography — a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.
- peach blossom — the flower of the peach tree: the state flower of Delaware.
- petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
- phelloplastic — an image or a representation that has been fashioned from cork
- philosophical — of or relating to philosophy: philosophical studies.
- phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
- photovoltaics — (used with a singular verb) a field of semiconductor technology involving the direct conversion of electromagnetic radiation as sunlight, into electricity.
- phyllocladous — having phylloclades.
- physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
- physiological — of or relating to physiology.
- physoclistous — having the air bladder closed off from the mouth.
- pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
- polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
- polychotomous — divided into multiple parts
- polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
- postholocaust — following a holocaust
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.