13-letter words containing c, h, i, r, a
- cryptoxanthin — a carotenoid pigment, C40H56O, in butter, eggs, and various plants, that can be converted into vitamin A in the body
- crystal habit — the external shape of a crystal
- cyberchondria — unfounded anxiety concerning the state of one's health brought on by visiting health and medical websites
- 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
- dechorionated — (biology) From which the chorion has been removed.
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- diaphoretical — Alternative form of diaphoretic.
- diaphragmatic — of the diaphragm.
- dictatorships — Plural form of dictatorship.
- digraphically — in a digraphic manner
- disaccharides — Plural form of disaccharide.
- dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- discographies — Plural form of discography.
- disfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of disfranchise.
- disfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfranchise.
- dolichocranic — dolichocephalic.
- dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
- downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
- dresden china — porcelain ware produced at Meissen, Germany, near Dresden, after 1710.
- driving chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- drop a stitch — to allow a loop of wool to fall off a knitting needle accidentally while knitting
- earth science — any of various sciences, as geography, geology, or meteorology, that deal with the earth, its composition, or any of its changing aspects.
- electric hare — (in greyhound racing) a model of a hare, mounted on an electrified rail, which the dogs chase
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- enfranchising — Present participle of enfranchise.
- enterohepatic — Relating to or denoting the circulation of bile salts and other secretions from the liver to the intestine, where they are reabsorbed into the blood and returned to the liver.
- epitrachelion — The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
- epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
- eproctophilia — Sexual arousal from flatulence.
- ergatomorphic — pertaining to an ergatomorph
- ethnographica — a collection of ethnographic items
- eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
- featherstitch — an embroidery stitch producing work in which a succession of branches extend alternately on each side of a central stem.
- 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.
- finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
- fire watching — the job of watching for fires, especially those caused by aerial bombardment
- fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- fish hatchery — a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- fluorographic — of or pertaining to fluorography
- folding chair — a chair that can be collapsed flat for easy storage or transport.
- for chrissake — for Christ's sake
- franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- free reaching — sailing on a free reach.
- french guiana — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
- french guinea — former name of Guinea.
- friar's chair — frailero.
- friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.