13-letter words containing a, l, i, t, r
- gravitational — Physics. the force of attraction between any two masses. Compare law of gravitation. an act or process caused by this force.
- gravity clock — a clock driven by its own weight as it descends a rack, cord, incline, etc.
- gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
- gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
- great calorie — calorie (sense 2)
- 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.
- grylloblattid — a primitive insect of the order Grylloblattidea, having a soft, unpigmented wingless body with long antennae and no eyes, living under stones in moderately high mountains of the western U.S., Japan, and the U.S.S.R.
- gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
- hairsplitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
- half-integral — noting or pertaining to a fractional number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two, as 1/2.
- half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
- hallucinatory — pertaining to or characterized by hallucination: hallucinatory visions.
- halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
- hardenability — The quality or degree of being hardenable.
- hazard lights — Usually, hazard lights. an indicator light on a vehicle that flashes to warn that it is unexpectedly slowing down, reversing, or not moving.
- headline rate — a basic rate of inflation, taxation, etc, before distorting factors have been removed
- heart failure — a condition in which the heart fatally ceases to function.
- heliotropical — heliotropic
- hellgrammites — Plural form of hellgrammite (Alternative spelling of hellgramites).
- heortological — of or relating to heortology
- hepatobiliary — Of, pertaining to, or originating in the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder.
- hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- heterarchical — Of or pertaining to heterarchy.
- heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- heteroglossia — (linguistics) the coexistence of distinct varieties within a single linguistic code.
- 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).
- heuristically — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- hiatal hernia — an abnormal condition in which part of the stomach protrudes upward through the esophageal cleft in the diaphragm, sometimes causing a backflow of acid stomach contents into the esophagus.
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- homoiothermal — having a body temperature that is relatively constant and mostly independent of the temperature of the environment; warm-blooded (opposed to poikilothermic).
- honourability — A state or condition or being honourable.
- horatio alger — of or characteristic of the heroes in the novels of Horatio Alger, who begin life in poverty and achieve success and wealth through honesty, hard work, and virtuous behavior: the Horatio Alger story of his rise in the business world.
- horizontality — at right angles to the vertical; parallel to level ground.
- horripilation — a bristling of the hair on the skin from cold, fear, etc.; goose bumps.
- horse trailer — lorry for transporting a horse
- horticultural — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
- hospital care — medical treatment provided in a hospital
- house trailer — a trailer fitted with accommodations for sleeping, eating, washing, etc.
- hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
- hunter trials — a test for hunters held under the auspices of a hunt, in which the course is laid with obstacles to simulate actual hunting conditions.
- hydrargillite — gibbsite.
- hydrated lime — a soft, white, crystalline, very slightly water-soluble powder, Ca(OH) 2 , obtained by the action of water on lime: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements.
- hydropathical — Alternative form of hydropathic.
- hydrostatical — Alternative form of hydrostatic.
- hydroxylation — (organic chemistry) The introduction of a hydroxyl group into a molecule, especially by the replacement of a hydrogen atom.
- hygrometrical — Alternative form of hygrometric.