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13-letter words containing e, c, l

  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • 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.
  • gynaecologist — (UK, Canada, dated in US) A physician who specialises in diseases of the female reproductive system.
  • gynecological — the branch of medical science that deals with the health maintenance and diseases of women, especially of the reproductive organs. Abbreviation: GYN, gyn.
  • gynecologists — Plural form of gynecologist.
  • hair clippers — device for trimming hair
  • hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
  • half-educated — having undergone education: educated people.
  • 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.
  • hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
  • halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
  • halotolerance — The quality or degree of being halotolerant.
  • haskell curry — (person)   Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-09-12 - 1982-09-01). The logician who re-invented and developed combinatory logic. The functional programming language Haskell was named after him.
  • health center — medical clinic
  • health centre — A health centre is a building in which a group of doctors have offices or surgeries where their patients can visit them.
  • heavenly city — the abode of God and His saints; heaven. Rev. 21:2.
  • hefner candle — a German unit of luminous intensity, equal to 0.92 of a candela.
  • helicoid cyme — an inflorescence, or cyme, in which each flowering branch gives rise to one lateral branch that is coiled snail-like and then expanded.
  • 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.).
  • heliotropical — heliotropic
  • helispherical — spiral
  • helper t cell — a T cell that stimulates B cells to produce antibody against a foreign substance, using lymphokines or direct contact as a signal.
  • helper t-cell — a type of T cell that helps coordinate the immune response, especially by activating B cells: the AIDS virus targets and destroys these T cells
  • hematological — Hematologic.
  • hemicellulose — any of a group of gummy polysaccharides, intermediate in complexity between sugar and cellulose, that hydrolyze to monosaccharides more readily than cellulose.
  • hemicolectomy — (surgery) A colectomy involving the removal of only the ascending (right) colon or the descending (left) colon.
  • hemimetabolic — (zoology) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in lacking wings.
  • hemispherical — having the form of a hemisphere.
  • hemocytoblast — a primordial cell capable of developing into any type of blood cell.
  • hemolymphatic — a fluid in the body cavities and tissues of invertebrates, in arthropods functioning as blood and in some other invertebrates functioning as lymph.
  • heortological — of or relating to heortology
  • heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
  • hercules-club — Also called Southern prickly ash. a prickly tree, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, of the rue family, having a medicinal bark and berries.
  • hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • heterarchical — Of or pertaining to heterarchy.
  • heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
  • heteroclitous — heteroclite
  • heterological — (grammar) Of an adjective, not describing itself.
  • heteroplastic — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
  • heterothallic — having mycelia of two unlike types, both of which must participate in the sexual process. Compare homothallic (def 1).
  • heuristically — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
  • hexactinellid — a type of sponge characterized by their (usually) six siliceous spicules or rays
  • hexadactylism — Sexdactyly.
  • hexadactylous — hexadactylic
  • hieroglyphics — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
  • high-coloured — (of the complexion) deep red or purplish; florid
  • high-velocity — having an above average velocity
  • hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
  • histochemical — the branch of science dealing with the chemical components of cellular and subcellular tissue.
  • hockey player — sportsperson: plays hockey
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