13-letter words containing h, e, a, l, r
- clishmaclaver — idle talk; gossip
- clock watcher — an employee who demonstrates lack of interest in a job by watching the time closely to be sure to stop work as soon as the workday or shift is over.
- clock-watcher — an employee who checks the time in anticipation of a break or of the end of the working day
- close harmony — a type of singing in which all the parts except the bass lie close together and are confined to the compass of a tenth
- cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coal merchant — a person engaged in the purchase and sale of coal for profit
- cochlear duct — a spiral tube enclosed in the bony canal of the cochlea.
- cochleariform — having a spoon shape
- coldheartedly — Alternative spelling of cold-heartedly.
- colomb-bechar — former name of Béchar.
- copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
- core handling — Core handling is the way that a core is dealt with to make sure it maintains its properties for testing.
- coxwell chair — Cogswell chair.
- crackle china — porcelain or pottery with intentional crazing
- cradle scythe — cradle (def 4b).
- cross-channel — Cross-Channel travel is travel across the English Channel, especially by boat.
- cruel-hearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
- culture clash — a conflict arising from the interaction of people with different cultural values
- cylinder head — the detachable metal casting that fits onto the top of a cylinder block. In an engine it contains part of the combustion chamber and in an overhead-valve four-stroke engine it houses the valves and their operating mechanisms
- das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- daughter cell — either of the two cells that result from the division of a cell, as in mitosis
- demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- diaphoretical — Alternative form of diaphoretic.
- dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- disenthralled — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- disinthralled — freed from thraldom
- donald cherry — Donald Eugene ("Don") 1936–95, U.S. jazz trumpeter.
- double-header — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- downheartedly — In a downhearted manner.
- downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
- draw the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
- dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
- dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
- early english — pertaining to the first style of Gothic architecture in England, ending in the latter half of the 13th century, characterized by the use of lancet arches, plate tracery, and narrow openings.
- elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
- electric hare — (in greyhound racing) a model of a hare, mounted on an electrified rail, which the dogs chase
- electrographs — Plural form of electrograph.
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- elevator shoe — a shoe designed to increase the wearer's height
- encephalogram — An image, trace, or other record of the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- enthrallingly — In an enthralling way.
- entrance hall — large lobby, foyer
- ephemeralness — The quality of being ephemeral or transitory.
- epitrachelion — The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
- epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.