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13-letter words containing t, r, o, c, h, e

  • scottish rite — one of the two advanced divisions of Masonic membership, leading to the 33rd degree.
  • scratch score — an estimated number of strokes for a hole or course that a scratch player should make
  • scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
  • seventh chord — a chord formed by the superposition of three thirds.
  • sex chromatin — Barr body.
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
  • share account — a savings account in a credit union.
  • sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
  • shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • shore terrace — a terrace or bench produced by wave erosion and biochemical attack along the shore of an ocean or a large lake.
  • short subject — a short film, as a documentary or travelogue, shown as part of a program with a feature-length film.
  • sister school — a university or college which is financially, historically or socially linked to another
  • socket wrench — a box wrench with a socket that is an extension of the shank.
  • 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.
  • spectatorship — the state of being a spectator
  • spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • spherocytosis — the condition of having spherocytes
  • spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
  • spirochetosis — a disease caused by infection with a spirochete.
  • sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
  • sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
  • stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
  • stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
  • street hockey — road hockey.
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
  • tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • the boat race — a rowing event held annually in the spring, in which an eight representing Oxford University rows against one representing Cambridge University on the Thames between Putney and Mortlake
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the comforter — the Holy Spirit: John 14:26
  • the decameron — title of collection of stories written in Italian in the early Renaissance by Boccaccio
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
  • the-decameron — a collection of 100 tales (1353) by Boccaccio.
  • the-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • theoretically — of, relating to, or consisting in theory; not practical (distinguished from applied).
  • theriomorphic — (of deities) thought of or represented as having the form of beasts.
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • thermobalance — an analytical balance that measures weight changes when matter is heated
  • thermocurrent — a thermoelectric current.
  • thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
  • thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
  • thermonuclear — relating to nuclear fusion
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
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