13-letter words containing t, c, h, a, d
- saddle-stitch — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
- sadomasochist — interaction, especially sexual activity, in which one person enjoys inflicting physical or mental suffering on another person, who derives pleasure from experiencing pain.
- sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht
- sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
- scandal sheet — a newspaper or magazine that emphasizes scandal or gossip.
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- scratchpad ii — See Scratchpad I, AXIOM.
- seed merchant — someone that collects, packages and sells seeds
- semi-attached — partially attached; semidetached.
- semi-detached — partly detached.
- shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- sophisticated — sophisticated.
- standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
- suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
- switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
- tax schedules — the different ways of classifying income under tax law
- tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
- the afflicted — afflicted people considered collectively
- the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
- the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
- the decameron — title of collection of stories written in Italian in the early Renaissance by Boccaccio
- the ediacaran — the Ediacaran period or rock system
- the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
- the-decameron — a collection of 100 tales (1353) by Boccaccio.
- thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
- thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
- thioacetamide — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 2 H 5 NS, used chiefly in analytical chemistry as a source of hydrogen sulfide.
- thiocarbamide — thiourea.
- thioctic acid — Biochemistry. an organic acid, C 8 H 14 O 2 S 2 , that occurs as a coenzyme in hydrogen transfer reactions in certain plants, microorganisms, and animals and functions as a growth factor for many species of bacteria and protozoa.
- thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
- thoracic duct — the main trunk of the lymphatic system, passing along the spinal column in the thoracic cavity, and conveying a large amount of lymph and chyle into the venous circulation.
- thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
- three old cat — three-a-cat.
- trisaccharide — a carbohydrate composed of three monosaccharide units, and hydrolyzable to a monosaccharide or a mixture of monosaccharides.
- turbo-charged — A turbo-charged engine or vehicle is fitted with a turbo.
- unchlorinated — not chlorinated; not treated with chlorine
- under hatches — below decks
- velocity head — the velocity of a fluid expressed in terms of the head or static pressure required to produce that velocity. It equals ρν/2 where ρ is the density of the fluid and ν is the velocity. In hydrology the density of water can be written 1/G where G is the gravitational constant
- weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
- wild hyacinth — any of several plants having usually blue flowers resembling those of a hyacinth, as Camassia scilloides, of the central U.S., or Triteleia hyacinthina, of western North America.
- wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).