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13-letter words containing cho

  • dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
  • echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
  • echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
  • echoic memory — the ability to recapture the exact impression of a sound shortly after the sound has finished
  • ecopsychology — A form of psychology based on integration with the natural world rather than with society.
  • enchondromata — Plural form of enchondroma.
  • epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
  • eschscholzias — Plural form of eschscholzia.
  • feeder school — a junior school whose pupils go to a specific secondary school
  • gallocatechol — An antioxidant that contains catechin, found in food.
  • gonochoristic — Of or pertaining to gonochorism.
  • hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
  • herringchoker — a native or resident of any of the Maritime Provinces but especially of New Brunswick.
  • home-schooler — to teach (one's children) at home instead of sending them to school.
  • homeschoolers — Plural form of homeschooler.
  • homeschooling — a school set up in the home.
  • honour school — (at Oxford University) one of the courses of study leading to an honours degree
  • hostel school — (in Canada) one of a series of boarding schools operated by the federal government in the northern territories for Indian and Eskimo students.
  • hot chocolate — warm drink made with chocolate powder
  • hypo-chondria — Also, hypochondriasis [hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-sis] /ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə sɪs/ (Show IPA). Psychiatry. an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems.
  • hypochondriac — Also, hypochondriacal, H05/H0509000 hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-kuh l, ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə kəl. Psychiatry. pertaining to or suffering from hypochondria, an excessive preoccupation with and worry about one's health: The comedy is aimed at the hypochondriac demographic. produced by hypochondria: Hypochondriac feelings overwhelmed her.
  • hypochondrium — either of two regions of the abdomen, situated on each side of the epigastrium and above the lumbar regions.
  • infant school — In Britain, an infant school is a school for children between the ages of five and seven.
  • interchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • junior school — a school for children aged seven to eleven, similar to a U.S. elementary school.
  • lechosos opal — a variety of opal having a deep-green play of color.
  • lissotrichous — having straight hair.
  • lophotrichous — (biology, of bacteria) Having multiple flagella located at the same point, so that they can act in concert to drive the bacterium in a single direction.
  • magnet school — a public school with special programs and instruction that are not available elsewhere in a school district and that are specially designed to draw students from throughout a district, especially to aid in desegregation.
  • melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
  • middle school — a school intermediate between elementary school and high school, usually encompassing grades five or six through eight.
  • mitochondrial — (cytology) Of, or relating to mitochondria.
  • mitochondrion — an organelle in the cytoplasm of cells that functions in energy production.
  • monochorionic — Sharing one foetal membrane, or chorion. Typically used of identical twins.
  • nicholasville — a town in central Kentucky.
  • normal school — (formerly) a school offering a two-year course and certification to high-school graduates preparing to be teachers, especially elementary-school teachers.
  • not much chop — not much good; poor
  • nut chocolate — chocolate containing nuts
  • onychomycosis — Fungal infection of the nail, especially the toenail.
  • onychophagist — the practice of biting one's nails, especially when done habitually and as a symptom of emotional disturbance.
  • onychophorans — Plural form of onychophoran.
  • onychorrhexis — (pathology) fingernail and toenail brittleness and breakage, such as may be due to excessive strong soap and water exposure, nail polish remover, hypothyroidism, anemia, anorexia nervosa or bulimia, or after oral retinoid therapy.
  • palm-oil chop — a W African dish made with meat and palm oil
  • parapsychosis — an abnormal psychosis
  • pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
  • perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
  • polychotomous — divided into multiple parts
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • protochordate — any of the nonvertebrate chordates, as the tunicates, cephalochordates, and hemichordates.
  • psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
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