13-letter words containing c, o, u, r, t, e
- ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
- haute couture — high fashion; the most fashionable and influential dressmaking and designing.
- here document — (operating system) Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
- heterocarpous — (of a plant) producing more than one type of fruit
- heteroclitous — heteroclite
- heterocystous — containing or relating to heterocysts
- home computer — a personal computer used in the home.
- host computer — the main computer in a network: controls or performs certain functions for other computers.
- 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.
- hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
- hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- hyracotherium — eohippus.
- incongruently — not congruent.
- incongruities — the quality or condition of being incongruous.
- inconstruable — unable to be construed
- incorruptable — Misspelling of incorruptible.
- incorruptible — not corruptible: incorruptible integrity.
- incorruptness — The state of being incorrupt.
- incouragement — Archaic form of encouragement.
- indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- inner product — Also called dot product, scalar product. the quantity obtained by multiplying the corresponding coordinates of each of two vectors and adding the products, equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between them.
- insectivorous — adapted to feeding on insects.
- insurrections — Plural form of insurrection.
- intercommunal — used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.
- interfunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- interjunction — an act of joining; combining.
- interlocution — conversation; dialogue.
- interlocutors — a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue.
- interlocutory — of the nature of, pertaining to, or occurring in conversation: interlocutory instruction.
- interlocutrix — A female interlocutor.
- interosculant — Mutually touching or intersecting.
- interosculate — to interpenetrate; inosculate.
- interpunction — the insertion of punctuation marks in a piece of writing
- introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
- justice court — an inferior tribunal, not of record, having limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, and presided over by a justice of the peace.
- lecture notes — notes that are taken by someone attending a lecture
- leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- liposculpture — the surgical removal of subcutaneous fat and its transplant to another part of the body, as to fill out facial contours.
- literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
- loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- lucretia mott — John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- lunch counter — a counter, as in a store or restaurant, where light meals and snacks are served or are sold to be taken out.