13-letter words containing a, n, c, h, l
- endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
- entrance hall — large lobby, foyer
- epitrachelion — The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
- ethnocultural — Relating to or denoting a particular ethnic group.
- fibre channel — (storage, networking, communications) An ANSI standard originally intended for high-speed SANs connecting servers, disc arrays, and backup devices, also later adapted to form the physical layer of Gigabit Ethernet. Development work on Fibre channel started in 1988 and it was approved by the ANSI standards committee in 1994, running at 100Mb/s. More recent innovations have seen the speed of Fibre Channel SANs increase to 10Gb/s. Several topologies are possible with Fibre Channel, the most popular being a number of devices attached to one (or two, for redundancy) central Fibre Channel switches, creating a reliable infrastructure that allows servers to share storage arrays or tape libraries. One common use of Fibre Channel SANs is for high availability databaseq clusters where two servers are connected to one highly reliable RAID array. Should one server fail, the other server can mount the array itself and continue operations with minimal downtime and loss of data. Other advanced features include the ability to have servers and hard drives seperated by hundreds of miles or to rapidly mirror data between servers and hard drives, perhaps in seperate geographic locations.
- finback whale — rorqual
- flash fiction — very short works of fiction that are typically no longer than a couple of pages and may be as short as one paragraph.
- folding chair — a chair that can be collapsed flat for easy storage or transport.
- funeral march — march played for funeral processions
- girl-watching — the activity of looking at young women to enjoy their attractiveness, perhaps with a view to starting a relationship
- goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
- grain alcohol — alcohol (def 1).
- grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- green channel — the route followed in passing through customs in an airport, etc by passengers claiming to have no dutiable goods to declare
- half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
- halicarnassus — an ancient city of Caria, in SW Asia Minor: site of the Mausoleum, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
- hallucinating — Present participle of hallucinate.
- hallucination — 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.
- 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.
- hallucinatory — pertaining to or characterized by hallucination: hallucinatory visions.
- hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
- halotolerance — The quality or degree of being halotolerant.
- hand controls — a set of controls in some cars, operated by hand, that have the same function as the accelerator, brake, and clutch pedals
- health center — medical clinic
- health centre — A health centre is a building in which a group of doctors have offices or surgeries where their patients can visit them.
- heavenly city — the abode of God and His saints; heaven. Rev. 21:2.
- hefner candle — a German unit of luminous intensity, equal to 0.92 of a candela.
- hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- hexactinellid — a type of sponge characterized by their (usually) six siliceous spicules or rays
- holy alliance — a league formed by the principal sovereigns of Europe in 1815 with the professed object of promoting Christian brotherhood but the practical object of repressing democratic revolutions and institutions. The English and Turkish rulers and Pope Pius VII did not join the league.
- homogenetical — of, involving or relating to homogeny
- honorifically — In a honorific manner.
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- human capital — the collective skills, knowledge, or other intangible assets of individuals that can be used to create economic value for the individuals, their employers, or their community: Education is an investment in human capital that pays off in terms of higher productivity.
- human cloning — the act of producing a human as a clone
- human ecology — ecology (def 4).
- hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
- hypobranchial — situated below the gills or beneath the branchial arches.
- hyponymically — In a hyponymic way.
- ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
- infant school — In Britain, an infant school is a school for children between the ages of five and seven.
- interchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- intrathecally — In an intrathecal way; into the spinal canal.
- invalid chair — a chair specially designed for an invalid to sit in
- johnny collar — a small, pointed collar on a shirt, dress bodice, or the like, with close-fitting neckline.
- knuckleheaded — Stupid or inept, like a knucklehead.
- kristallnacht — a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed.
- labyrinthical — Labyrinthine; like or relating to a labyrinth.
- lake michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.