14-letter words containing e, t, c, h, i
- hyperparasitic — Relating to, or exhibiting, hyperparasitism.
- hyperrealistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- hypersecretion — an excessive secretion.
- hypertechnical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
- hypertrichosis — excessive growth of hair.
- hypertrophical — relating to hypertrophy
- hyperviscosity — the abnormal thickening of a liquid
- hypothetically — assumed by hypothesis; supposed: a hypothetical case.
- hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
- hysterectomies — Plural form of hysterectomy.
- hysterectomise — Alt form hysterectomize.
- hysterectomize — to remove the uterus from by surgery.
- hysteroscopies — Plural form of hysteroscopy.
- iatrochemistry — (in the 16th and 17th centuries) the study of chemistry in relation to the physiology, pathology, and treatment of disease.
- ichthyocentaur — a sea creature with a human head and torso, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish.
- idle character — a transmitted control character that holds a position but does not appear in the output at the receiver.
- image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
- immethodically — Unmethodically.
- impeachability — The state or condition of being impeachable.
- in case of sth — If you do something or have something in case of a particular thing, you do it or have it because that thing might happen or be true.
- in the balance — a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount, etc.
- in the face of — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- in the picture — informed about a given situation
- in the process — If you are doing something and you do something else in the process, you do the second thing as part of doing the first thing.
- inauthenticity — not authentic: inauthentic Indian jewelry mass-produced in a factory.
- interchangable — Misspelling of interchangeable.
- interparochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
- into the black — into a profitable condition financially
- inverted chord — a chord in which the notes are transposed such that the root, originally in the bass, is placed in an upper part.
- isothiocyanate — a chemical compound containing the univalent radical –NCS.
- itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
- john steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
- keep pace with — to proceed at the same speed as
- kelyphitic rim — a mineral shell enclosing another mineral in an igneous rock, formed by reaction of the interned mineral with the surrounding rock
- keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc
- khaki election — a general election held during or immediately after a war, esp one in which the war has an effect on how people vote
- kick the habit — quit smoking
- kill the clock — an instrument for measuring and recording time, especially by mechanical means, usually with hands or changing numbers to indicate the hour and minute: not designed to be worn or carried about.
- kinetic theory — the theory that the minute particles of all matter are in constant motion and that the temperature of a substance is dependent on the velocity of this motion, increased motion being accompanied by increased temperature: according to the kinetic theory of gases, the elasticity, diffusion, pressure, and other physical properties of a gas are due to the rapid motion in straight lines of its molecules, to their impacts against each other and the walls of the container, to weak cohesive forces between molecules, etc.
- kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
- kitchen midden — a mound consisting of shells of edible mollusks and other refuse, marking the site of a prehistoric human habitation.
- kitchen police — soldiers detailed by roster or as punishment to assist in kitchen duties.
- kitchen scales — a set of scales used in cooking
- kochel listing — the chronological number of a composition of Mozart as assigned in the catalog of the composer's works compiled in the 19th century by the Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877) and since revised several times. Abbreviation: K.
- lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
- latchkey child — a child who must spend at least part of the day alone and unsupervised, as when the parents are away at work.
- lechatelierite — a mineral, an amorphous form of silica formed by the fusion by heat of silica and found in fulgurites.
- lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
- left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
- leicestershire — a county in central England. 986 sq. mi. (2555 sq. km).