13-letter words containing s, u, c, a, h
- chapter house — A chapter house is the building or set of rooms in the grounds of a cathedral where the members of the clergy hold their meetings.
- charles louis — (Karl Ludwig Johann) 1771–1847, archduke of Austria.
- charnel house — A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.
- chattel house — (esp in Barbados) a movable wooden dwelling, usually set on a foundation of loose stones on rented land
- chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
- chestnut clam — Astarte (def 2).
- chestnut coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 3/16 to 1 5/8 inch (3 to 4 cm).
- chiaroscurist — A painter who uses light and shade rather than colour to create the illusion of volume.
- chlorous acid — an unstable acid that is a strong oxidizing agent. Formula: HClO2
- chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- chrysanthemum — A chrysanthemum is a large garden flower with many long, thin petals.
- chrysocarpous — bearing golden-yellow fruit.
- church slavic — a liturgical language used in Eastern Orthodox churches in Slavic countries since the 11th or 12th century, representing a development of Old Church Slavonic through contact with the national Slavic languages.
- churchmanship — The craft or skill of being a churchman. (from 17th c.).
- churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
- cinchonaceous — relating to cinchona
- cinematheques — Plural form of cinematheque.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
- co-authorship — the state a coauthor
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- compsognathus — any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Compsognathus, of late Jurassic age, having a slender body that reached a length of 30 inches (76 cm).
- conchylaceous — Of or relating to shells; resembling a shell.
- counter shaft — A counter shaft is a shaft that runs parallel to the main shaft in a gearbox, and carries the pinion wheels.
- countershafts — Plural form of countershaft.
- crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
- culture clash — a conflict arising from the interaction of people with different cultural values
- cushion plant — a type of low-growing plant having many closely spaced short upright shoots, typical of alpine and arctic habitats
- custodianship — the condition of being a custodian
- cut both ways — to have both good and bad effects
- debauchedness — The state or quality of being debauched.
- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
- dutch disease — the deindustrialization of an economy as a result of the discovery of a natural resource, as that which occurred in Holland with the exploitation of North Sea gas, which raised the value of the Dutch currency, making its exports uncompetitive and causing its industry to decline
- eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
- euphausiacean — a member of the Euphausiacea order of small shrimplike crustaceans
- euphemistical — Archaic form of euphemistic.
- feature shock — (jargon) (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
- fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
- gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- halicarnassus — an ancient city of Caria, in SW Asia Minor: site of the Mausoleum, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
- hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.