13-letter words containing c, h, r, o, m
- direct method — a technique of foreign-language teaching in which only the target language is used, little instruction is given concerning formal rules of grammar, and language use is often elicited in situational contexts.
- dual monarchy — the kingdom of Austria-Hungary 1867–1918.
- dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
- echoic memory — the ability to recapture the exact impression of a sound shortly after the sound has finished
- elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
- electrochemic — electrochemical
- electrothermy — the use of electrically produced heat for therapeutic purposes
- encephalogram — An image, trace, or other record of the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
- enchondromata — Plural form of enchondroma.
- encroachments — Plural form of encroachment.
- ergatomorphic — pertaining to an ergatomorph
- ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
- exothermicity — (chemistry, physics) The release of heat during an exothermic reaction.
- ferrochromium — a ferroalloy containing up to 70 percent chromium.
- float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
- fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
- franche-comte — a former province in E France: once a part of Burgundy.
- freedom march — an organized march protesting a government's restriction of or lack of support for civil rights, especially such a march in support of racial integration in the U.S. in the 1960s.
- hacker humour — A distinctive style of shared intellectual humour found among hackers, having the following marked characteristics: 1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humour having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta). One way to make a hacker laugh: hold a red index card in front of him/her with "GREEN" written on it, or vice-versa (note, however, that this is funny only the first time). 2. Elaborate deadpan parodies of large intellectual constructs, such as specifications (see write-only memory), standards documents, language descriptions (see INTERCAL), and even entire scientific theories (see quantum bogodynamics, computron). 3. Jokes that involve screwily precise reasoning from bizarre, ludicrous, or just grossly counter-intuitive premises. 4. Fascination with puns and wordplay. 5. A fondness for apparently mindless humour with subversive currents of intelligence in it - for example, old Warner Brothers and Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Humour that combines this trait with elements of high camp and slapstick is especially favoured. 6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, ha ha only serious, AI koan. See also filk and retrocomputing. If you have an itchy feeling that all 6 of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom.
- halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
- harmonic mean — the mean obtained by taking the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of a set of nonzero numbers.
- harmonic tone — a tone produced by suppressing the fundamental tone and bringing into prominence one of its overtones.
- heliocentrism — The theory that the sun is the center of the universe, (This theory is historically important and was widely accepted at the time of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.).
- hemacytometer — hemocytometer.
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- hemocytometer — an instrument for counting blood cells.
- here document — (operating system) Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
- hermosa beach — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- heterodimeric — (chemistry) produced from two similar but different monomers.
- heterogametic — (of a species or individual organism) having two unlike gametes.
- heteromorphic — Biology. dissimilar in shape, structure, or magnitude.
- heterothermic — Relating to, or exhibiting, heterothermy.
- histrionicism — histrionic behaviour or acts
- holy mackerel — astonishment
- homalographic — representing parts with like proportions.
- home comforts — things in a house that make it comfortable
- home computer — a personal computer used in the home.
- home-schooler — to teach (one's children) at home instead of sending them to school.
- homeschoolers — Plural form of homeschooler.
- homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
- homochromatic — of or relating to one hue; monochromatic.
- homoeroticism — a tendency to be sexually aroused by a member of the same sex.
- homoiothermic — (of birds and mammals) having a constant body temperature, usually higher than the temperature of the surroundings; warm-blooded
- homolographic — representing parts with like proportions.
- homopolymeric — relating to or made of homopolymers
- hormic theory — a theory that holds all behavior to be purposive, whether conscious or unconscious.
- host computer — the main computer in a network: controls or performs certain functions for other computers.
- hydrodynamics — the branch of fluid dynamics that deals with liquids, including hydrostatics and hydrokinetics.
- hygrometrical — Alternative form of hygrometric.
- hypermetropic — Exhibiting or relating to hypermetropia.