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13-letter words containing c, o, a, n, h

  • endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
  • endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
  • 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.
  • ethanoic acid — acetic acid
  • ethnocultural — Relating to or denoting a particular ethnic group.
  • ethnographica — a collection of ethnographic items
  • faction fight — a fight between rival Black groups, usually originating in tribal or clan feuds
  • 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.
  • franche-comte — a former province in E France: once a part of Burgundy.
  • 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.
  • garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
  • gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
  • goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
  • gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
  • grain alcohol — alcohol (def 1).
  • graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
  • gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
  • hacking cough — a harsh, dry and spasmodic cough
  • hackney coach — hackney (def 1).
  • haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
  • half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
  • hash function — (programming)   A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
  • have occasion — If you have occasion to do something, it is necessary for you to do it.
  • henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
  • hendecahedron — a solid figure having 11 faces.
  • heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
  • hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
  • heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
  • heroin addict — sb dependent on heroin
  • heterostracan — any of several ostracoderms of the order Heterostraci, from the Silurian and Devonian Periods, having the anterior part of the body enclosed in bony plates.
  • hexanoic acid — caproic acid.
  • hieracosphinx — (in ancient Egyptian art) a hawk-headed sphinx
  • 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
  • honey stomach — the crop of an ant, bee, or other hymenopterous insect, serving as a reservoir for honeydew and nectar, especially the enlarged crop of a honeybee in which nectar is acted on by enzymes to form honey.
  • honorifically — In a honorific manner.
  • honoris causa — for the sake of honour
  • horrification — That which causes horror.
  • housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • human cloning — the act of producing a human as a clone
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