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13-letter words containing c, u, i, t, e

  • fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
  • fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
  • fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
  • fuel-injected — (of an engine) having fuel injection.
  • functionalise — to make functional.
  • functionalize — to make functional.
  • functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
  • futurity race — a race for two-year-old horses in which the entries are selected before birth
  • gastric juice — the digestive fluid, containing pepsin and other enzymes, secreted by the glands of the stomach.
  • gastric ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the stomach's inner wall, caused in part by the corrosive action of the gastric juice on the mucous membrane.
  • gastrocnemius — the largest muscle in the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot, raises the heel, and assists in bending the knee.
  • gemutlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
  • generic thunk — (programming)   A software mechanism that allows a 16-bit Windows application to load and call a Win32 DLL under Windows NT and Windows 95. See also flat thunk, universal thunk.
  • gentianaceous — belonging to the plant family Gentianaceae.
  • genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
  • gesticulating — Present participle of gesticulate.
  • gesticulation — the act of gesticulating.
  • gesticulative — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
  • gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
  • glutamatergic — (biochemistry, neurology) Of or pertaining to the neurotransmission of glutamate.
  • great council — (in Norman England) an assembly composed of the king's tenants in chief that served as the principal council of the realm and replaced the witenagemot.
  • guilt complex — If you say that someone has a guilt complex about something, you mean that they feel very guilty about it, in a way that you consider is exaggerated, unreasonable, or unnecessary.
  • gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • gut-wrenching — involving great distress or anguish; agonizing: a gut-wrenching decision.
  • hallucinative — 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.
  • halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
  • haute cuisine — fine or gourmet cooking; food preparation as an art.
  • hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • heteroclitous — heteroclite
  • heuristically — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
  • home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • hypoeutectoid — (of steel) having less carbon than the 0.8 percent of eutectoid steel.
  • hyracotherium — eohippus.
  • immunifacient — causing immunity
  • immunochemist — A chemist whose speciality is immunochemistry.
  • impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
  • impecuniosity — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
  • imputrescible — not liable to decomposition or putrefaction; incorruptible: a tanning process to make skins imputrescible.
  • 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.
  • incombustible — not combustible; incapable of being burned; fireproof.
  • incongruently — not congruent.
  • incongruities — the quality or condition of being incongruous.
  • inconsecutive — not consecutive.
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