13-letter words containing a, c, e, l, u
- ethnocultural — Relating to or denoting a particular ethnic group.
- eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
- euphemistical — Archaic form of euphemistic.
- excalibur bug — (humour, programming) The legendary bug that, despite repeated valliant attempts, none but the true king of all programmers can fix. Named after the sword in the stone in the legend of King Arthur.
- excludability — The ability to be excluded.
- excusableness — The quality of being excusable.
- extracapsular — (anatomy) Situated outside a capsule, especially outside the capsular ligament of a joint.
- extracellular — Situated or taking place outside a cell or cells.
- extrajudicial — (of a sentence) not legally authorized.
- extravascular — Situated or happening outside of the blood vessels or lymph vessels.
- facial tissue — a soft, disposable paper tissue especially for cleansing the face or for use as a handkerchief.
- facultatively — In a facultative manner.
- false colours — a flag to which one is not entitled, flown esp in order to deceive
- fault breccia — angular rock fragments produced by fracture and grinding during faulting and distributed within or adjacent to the fault plane.
- fault current — A fault current is a current that results from a fault.
- federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
- finite clause — a clause with a finite verb in its predicate.
- flag of truce — a white flag displayed as an invitation to the enemy to confer, or carried as a sign of peaceful intention by one sent to deal with the enemy.
- flame cutting — a method of cutting ferrous metals in which the metal is heated by a torch to about 800°C and is oxidized by a stream of oxygen from the torch
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
- floatcut file — file with rows of parallel teeth
- floor furnace — a small self-contained furnace placed just below the floor of the space to be heated.
- fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- fluoroacetate — a toxic chemical compound, C2H2FNaO2, occurring naturally in certain plants, and commonly used as rat poison
- flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
- focal seizure — an epileptic manifestation arising from a localized anomaly in the brain, as a small tumor or scar, and usually involving a single motor or sensory mechanism but occasionally spreading to other areas and causing convulsions and loss of consciousness.
- forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
- functionalise — to make functional.
- functionalize — to make functional.
- funeral march — march played for funeral processions
- futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
- galactagogues — Plural form of galactagogue.
- gastric ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the stomach's inner wall, caused in part by the corrosive action of the gastric juice on the mucous membrane.
- general court — the state legislature of Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
- gesticulating — Present participle of gesticulate.
- gesticulation — the act of gesticulating.
- gesticulative — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- glutamatergic — (biochemistry, neurology) Of or pertaining to the neurotransmission of glutamate.
- gram molecule — that quantity of a substance whose weight in grams is numerically equal to the molecular weight of the substance.
- great council — (in Norman England) an assembly composed of the king's tenants in chief that served as the principal council of the realm and replaced the witenagemot.
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- half-educated — having undergone education: educated people.
- hallucinative — a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
- hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
- halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
- haskell curry — (person) Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-09-12 - 1982-09-01). The logician who re-invented and developed combinatory logic. The functional programming language Haskell was named after him.
- hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.