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13-letter words containing s, u, c, a, h

  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
  • quadriphonics — quadraphony.
  • rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
  • rhesus factor — Rh factor.
  • rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
  • scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
  • schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
  • schizaeaceous — relating to a type of extinct fern
  • schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • share account — a savings account in a credit union.
  • shark biscuit — a bodyboard
  • she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • short account — the account of a short seller.
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • 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 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.
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • squash racket — a light long-handled racket used in the game of squash
  • stomach upset — a slight illness affecting your stomach and/or bowels characterized by nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea
  • 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.
  • such and such — definite or particular, but not named or specified: They turned out to be such and such kind of people.
  • sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
  • suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
  • sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
  • 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.
  • superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
  • suprachiasmic — relating to the area in the hypothalamus that regulates the biological clock
  • surbased arch — drop arch (def 2).
  • surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
  • swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
  • tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
  • tautochronous — having the character of a tautochrone
  • tax schedules — the different ways of classifying income under tax law
  • terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
  • the holocaust — the systematic, genocidal destruction of over six million European Jews by the Nazis before and during WWII
  • thesaurus.com — a popular free online dictionary of synonyms and antonyms: Thesaurus.com.
  • toxicophagous — poison-eating
  • trachycarpous — having rough-skinned fruit.
  • treacherously — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
  • truchas peaks — group of mountains in N New Mexico, NE of Santa Fe in the S Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
  • ultraphysical — extremely physical
  • uncharismatic — (of a person) not charismatic; lacking charisma; dull
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