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13-letter words containing a, e, t, i, o

  • 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.
  • great lobelia — a North American plant, Lobelia siphilitica, having long, showy clusters of blue flowers.
  • great society — the goal of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President Lyndon B. Johnson, chiefly to enact domestic programs to improve education, provide medical care for the aged, and eliminate poverty.
  • greater ionic — Architecture. noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders that in ancient Greece consisted of a fluted column with a molded base and a capital composed of four volutes, usually parallel to the architrave with a pulvinus connecting a pair on each side of the column, and an entablature typically consisting of an architrave of three fascias, a richly ornamented frieze, and a cornice corbeled out on egg-and-dart and dentil moldings, with the frieze sometimes omitted. Roman and Renaissance examples are often more elaborate, and usually set the volutes of the capitals at 45° to the architrave. Compare composite (def 3), Corinthian (def 2), Doric (def 3), Tuscan (def 2).
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • guesstimation — (pejorative) An estimation made without good justification and often biased.
  • gynaecologist — (UK, Canada, dated in US) A physician who specialises in diseases of the female reproductive system.
  • gynaecomastia — abnormal overdevelopment of the breasts in a man
  • gyromagnetism — the condition or state of being gyromagnetic
  • haemarthrosis — Alternative form of hemarthrosis.
  • haematochezia — Alternative form of hematochezia.
  • haematologist — A scientist, usually a medical doctor, who specializes in haematology.
  • haemodilution — an increase in the fluid content of blood leading to a lower concentration of red blood cells
  • hair restorer — a lotion claimed to promote hair growth
  • halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
  • harmonic tone — a tone produced by suppressing the fundamental tone and bringing into prominence one of its overtones.
  • hatemongering — The behaviour of a hatemonger; the spreading of hatred.
  • heart monitor — a machine that registers the activity of the heart
  • heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
  • heat equation — a partial differential equation the solution of which gives the distribution of temperature in a region as a function of space and time when the temperature at the boundaries, the initial distribution of temperature, and the physical properties of the medium are specified.
  • heating power — power that can be used to heat something
  • heliotropical — heliotropic
  • hellenization — to make Greek in character.
  • hematogenesis — hematopoiesis.
  • hematological — Hematologic.
  • hematologists — Plural form of hematologist.
  • hematopoiesis — the formation of blood.
  • hematopoietic — the formation of blood.
  • hematosalpinx — (medicine) A medical condition involving bleeding into the Fallopian tubes.
  • hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
  • hemimetabolic — (zoology) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in lacking wings.
  • hemolymphatic — a fluid in the body cavities and tissues of invertebrates, in arthropods functioning as blood and in some other invertebrates functioning as lymph.
  • heortological — of or relating to heortology
  • hepatectomies — Plural form of hepatectomy.
  • hepatobiliary — Of, pertaining to, or originating in the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder.
  • heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
  • herborization — the act or process of herborizing
  • hermaphrodite — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
  • herod antipas — died after a.d. 39, ruler of Galilee, a.d. 4–39: ordered the execution of John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus.
  • heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
  • heroin addict — sb dependent on heroin
  • hessian boots — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
  • heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
  • heterogametic — (of a species or individual organism) having two unlike gametes.
  • heteroglossia — (linguistics) the coexistence of distinct varieties within a single linguistic code.
  • heterographic — Misspelled; of or pertaining to an incorrect spelling or a spelling that differs from accepted standards.
  • heterological — (grammar) Of an adjective, not describing itself.
  • heteroplastic — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
  • heteropolitan — a heterosexual man, typically living in a city, whose attitudes and interests are regarded as masculine but not excessively so
  • heterothallic — having mycelia of two unlike types, both of which must participate in the sexual process. Compare homothallic (def 1).
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