13-letter words containing c, u, r, t, i
- encrustations — Plural form of encrustation.
- enculturating — Present participle of enculturate.
- enculturation — The gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture or group by a person, another culture, etc.
- equilibristic — Of or pertaining to equilibristics.
- eta reduction — eta conversion
- eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
- excursionists — Plural form of excursionist.
- extrajudicial — (of a sentence) not legally authorized.
- fault breccia — angular rock fragments produced by fracture and grinding during faulting and distributed within or adjacent to the fault plane.
- final curtain — end of a theatre performance
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- floricultural — Of or pertaining to floriculture.
- fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
- fluoroscopist — One who carries out fluoroscopy.
- food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
- form function — (jargon) The shape of something designed. This term is currently (Feb 1998) in vogue among marketroids.
- formularistic — relating to formularization
- fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
- fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
- fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
- function room — a room designated for official or formal social gatherings or ceremonies
- function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- futurity race — a race for two-year-old horses in which the entries are selected before birth
- futurological — Pertaining to futurology.
- 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.
- 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.
- gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
- glass curtain — a transparent or translucent curtain covering the interior of a window opening.
- glutamatergic — (biochemistry, neurology) Of or pertaining to the neurotransmission of glutamate.
- graticulation — the division of a design, plan, etc into squares in order to improve the accuracy of enlargement or reduction
- 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.
- group captain — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a wing commander but junior to an air commodore in the RAF and certain other air forces
- 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.
- hallucinatory — pertaining to or characterized by hallucination: hallucinatory visions.
- halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- 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.
- horticultural — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
- hortus siccus — a collection of dried plants; herbarium.
- 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.
- hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
- hunting chair — a chair having a sliding frame in front serving as a footrest.