13-letter words that end in ch
- hunting watch — hunter (def 6).
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- impact wrench — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
- kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
- keep in touch — stay in contact
- kettle stitch — (in handsewing) a knot tied in the thread that links one section to the next.
- kettle-stitch — a stitch used in hand-sewn books, at the head and tail, to hold sheets or sections together
- king's speech — (in the British Parliament) a speech reviewing domestic conditions and foreign relations, prepared by the ministry in the name of the sovereign, and read at the opening of the Parliament either by the sovereign in person or by commission.
- kitchen match — a wooden friction match with a large head, used especially for igniting gas ovens or burners.
- ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
- lamellibranch — bivalve.
- letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
- liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
- lucifer match — friction match.
- maiden speech — the first speech made in a legislature by a newly elected member.
- master switch — a switch that can be used to turn on or off the supply of electricity to a building or to certain equipment
- middle french — the French language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. Abbreviation: MF.
- mikhailovitch — Draja [drah-zhah] /ˈdrɑ ʒɑ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1946, Yugoslav military leader.
- mineral pitch — asphalt.
- mix and match — made up of complementary elements taken from different sets or sources: a mix-and-match approach to interior decoration.
- mix-and-match — made up of complementary elements taken from different sets or sources: a mix-and-match approach to interior decoration.
- modern french — the French language since c1600.
- monkey wrench — spanner
- monkey-wrench — to ruin (plans, a schedule, etc.) unavoidably or, sometimes, deliberately: The storm monkey-wrenched our plans for a picnic.
- morning watch — the watch from 4 a.m. until 8 a.m.
- mother church — a church from which other churches have had their origin or derived their authority.
- newport beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
- norman french — Also called Norman. the French dialect of the Normans or of Normandy.
- on-off switch — electrical or electronic device: control knob
- one-two punch — Also called one-two punch. Boxing. a left-hand jab immediately followed by a right cross.
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.
- optical bench — an apparatus, as a special table or rigid beam, for the precise positioning of light sources, screens, and optical instruments used for optical and photometric studies, having a ruled bar to which these devices can be attached and along which they can be readily adjusted.
- packet switch — packet switching
- parish church — local place of worship
- perennibranch — any amphibian that retains its gills throughout its life
- perfect pitch — absolute pitch (def 2).
- poison sumach — an anacardiaceous swamp shrub, Rhus (or Toxicodendron) vernix of the southeastern US, that has greenish-white berries and causes an itching rash on contact with the skin
- pompano beach — a city in SE Florida.
- protest march — public demonstration
- queen's bench — a court, originally the principal court for criminal cases, gradually acquiring a civil jurisdiction concurrent with that of the Court of Common Pleas, and also possessing appellate jurisdiction over the Court of Common Pleas: now a division of the High Court of Justice.
- quiller-couch — Sir Arthur Thomas ("Q") 1863–1944, English novelist and critic.
- rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
- rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
- redondo beach — a city in SW California.
- riviera beach — a town in SE Florida.
- robber trench — a trench that originally contained the foundations of a wall, the stones of which have been taken away
- rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
- rolling hitch — a hitch on a spar or the like, composed of two round turns and a half hitch so disposed as to jam when a stress is applied parallel to the object on which the hitch is made.
- sacher-masoch — Leopold von [ley-oh-pohlt fuh n] /ˈleɪ oʊˌpoʊlt fən/ (Show IPA), 1836–95, Austrian novelist.