13-letter words containing s, u, c, h, l
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
- melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
- melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
- mesocephalous — Alternative form of mesocephalic.
- microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
- microphyllous — having microphylls
- mischievously — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- multitheistic — Of or relating to multitheism.
- muscle shoals — former rapids of the Tennessee River in SW Alabama, changed into a lake by Wilson Dam: part of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
- nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
- non-scheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
- pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
- pencil-pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
- phyllocladous — having phylloclades.
- physoclistous — having the air bladder closed off from the mouth.
- polychotomous — divided into multiple parts
- postholocaust — following a holocaust
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- public school — (in the U.S.) a school that is maintained at public expense for the education of the children of a community or district and that constitutes a part of a system of free public education commonly including primary and secondary schools.
- quelque chose — a trifle
- quelque-chose — kickshaw.
- scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
- schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
- schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
- self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
- smooth muscle — involuntary muscle tissue in the walls of viscera and blood vessels, consisting of nonstriated, spindle-shaped cells.
- 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.
- speech bubble — cartoon: spoken text in a balloon
- speechfulness — the state of being full of speech or expression
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
- 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.
- sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
- superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
- superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- synchronously — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
- tax schedules — the different ways of classifying income under tax law
- 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
- thick-skulled — stupid; dull.
- thiosulphuric — of or relating to thiosulphuric acid or anything derived from it
- to lose touch — If you lose touch with someone, you gradually stop writing, telephoning, or visiting them.
- treacherously — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
- ultraphysical — extremely physical
- unchastisable — not deserving to be chastised; beyond reproach
- unethicalness — lacking moral principles; unwilling to adhere to proper rules of conduct.