13-letter words containing a, c, h, l
- coxwell chair — Cogswell chair.
- crackle china — porcelain or pottery with intentional crazing
- cradle scythe — cradle (def 4b).
- crash blossom — an ambiguously worded headline whose meaning can be interpreted in the wrong way, as “Missing Woman Remains Found.”. See also garden-path.
- crash landing — aircraft: emergency descent
- critical path — the sequence of stages of a project requiring the longest time
- cross-channel — Cross-Channel travel is travel across the English Channel, especially by boat.
- cruel-hearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
- crystal habit — the external shape of a crystal
- culture clash — a conflict arising from the interaction of people with different cultural values
- cup of elijah — Elijah's cup.
- cushion plant — a type of low-growing plant having many closely spaced short upright shoots, typical of alpine and arctic habitats
- cyanoethylate — to introduce a cyano-ethyl group into
- cyclohexanone — a colourless liquid used as a solvent for cellulose lacquers. Formula: C6H10O
- cylinder head — the detachable metal casting that fits onto the top of a cylinder block. In an engine it contains part of the combustion chamber and in an overhead-valve four-stroke engine it houses the valves and their operating mechanisms
- cymbocephalic — scaphocephaly.
- cytochalasins — Plural form of cytochalasin.
- cytopathology — a branch of pathology that examines individual cells in order to diagnose disease
- dactylography — the scientific study of fingerprints for purposes of identification
- daughter cell — either of the two cells that result from the division of a cell, as in mitosis
- demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- detachability — The quality of being detachable.
- diacatholicon — an all-purpose remedy
- dialect coach — a person whose job is to train actors to speak in the authentic accent and manner of a particular area
- diaphoretical — Alternative form of diaphoretic.
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- diethylacetal — acetal (def 1).
- digital watch — a watch that displays the time in numerical digits rather than by hands on a dial.
- digraphically — in a digraphic manner
- diotheletical — relating to ditheletism, the doctrine that Christ had two wills
- dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- dolichocephal — a person with a head much longer than it is broad
- dolichocranic — dolichocephalic.
- dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
- donald cherry — Donald Eugene ("Don") 1936–95, U.S. jazz trumpeter.
- downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
- dual monarchy — the kingdom of Austria-Hungary 1867–1918.
- dual-attached — The form of FDDI interface where a device is connected to both FDDI token-passing rings, so that uninterrupted operation continues in the event of a failure of either of the rings. All connections to the main FDDI rings are dual-attached. Typically, a small number of critical infrastructure devices such as routers and concentrators are dual-attached, whereas host computers are normally single-attached or dual-homed to a router or concentrator. For example, a ring could be formed between a single router and two concentrators (all dual-attached) then all other components that need to be fault-tolerant (typically file servers) can be dual-homed to both concentrators.
- dyothelitical — relating to dyotheletism
- dzibilchaltun — a large, ancient Mayan ceremonial and commercial center near Mérida, Mexico, founded perhaps as early as 3000 b.c. and in continuous use until the 16th century.
- elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
- electric hare — (in greyhound racing) a model of a hare, mounted on an electrified rail, which the dogs chase
- electrographs — Plural form of electrograph.
- encephalalgia — pain in the head; headache
- encephalocele — (medicine) A form of hernia of the brain and its membranes through an opening in the skull.
- encephalogram — An image, trace, or other record of the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
- encephalotomy — The dissection of the brain.
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.