13-letter words containing c, e, u
- heteroclitous — heteroclite
- heterocystous — containing or relating to heterocysts
- heuristically — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- hexadactylous — hexadactylic
- high-coloured — (of the complexion) deep red or purplish; florid
- hire purchase — buying sth by instalments
- hire-purchase — a system of payment for a commodity in regular installments while using it.
- holosericeous — covered with short, silky hairs.
- home computer — a personal computer used in the home.
- home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
- homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
- honors course — a course in a university or college consisting largely of independent research terminating in a dissertation or a comprehensive examination, and earning for the student who passes it a degree with distinction.
- horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
- host computer — the main computer in a network: controls or performs certain functions for other computers.
- house counsel — a lawyer drawing a full-time salary from a corporation that he or she represents.
- house cricket — a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.
- house officer — a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- hubble effect — redshift
- huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
- human ecology — ecology (def 4).
- humped cattle — any of several breeds of domestic cattle developed from the Indian species Bos indicus and characterized by a hump of fat and muscle over the shoulders.
- hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
- hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
- hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
- hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- hypereutectic — (of an alloy) having more of the alloying element than the eutectoid composition.
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- hyperproducer — an increased or rapid producer
- hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
- hyperuricemia — an excess of uric acid in the blood, often producing gout.
- hypervascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- hypoeutectoid — (of steel) having less carbon than the 0.8 percent of eutectoid steel.
- hyracotherium — eohippus.
- ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
- immunifacient — causing immunity
- immunochemist — A chemist whose speciality is immunochemistry.
- impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
- impecuniosity — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- impecuniously — In an impecunious manner.
- imputrescible — not liable to decomposition or putrefaction; incorruptible: a tanning process to make skins imputrescible.
- in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- in one's cups — a small, open container made of china, glass, metal, etc., usually having a handle and used chiefly as a receptable from which to drink tea, soup, etc.
- in succession — one after another
- in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- inacquiescent — Not acquiescent.
- inarticulated — Not articulated; not connected by a joint.
- inclusiveness — including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used postpositively): from 6 to 37 inclusive.