13-letter words containing h, e, c, t, i
- cruiserweight — A cruiserweight is another name for a light heavyweight.
- cryotherapies — Plural form of cryotherapy.
- cryptesthesia — allegedly paranormal perception, as clairvoyance or clairaudience.
- cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
- cyberthriller — A thriller whose plot hinges on cyberspace.
- cystathionine — an amino acid, C 7 H 14 O 4 N 2 S, that is an intermediate in the transfer of sulfur from methionine to cysteine.
- cytochemistry — the chemistry of living cells
- decahistidine — An oligopeptide consisting of ten histidine moieties.
- decamethonium — a drug that is used to relax or loosen the muscles
- dechorionated — (biology) From which the chorion has been removed.
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- detachability — The quality of being detachable.
- dialect coach — a person whose job is to train actors to speak in the authentic accent and manner of a particular area
- diaphoretical — Alternative form of diaphoretic.
- diethylacetal — acetal (def 1).
- dimmer switch — A dimmer switch is an electrical switch which turns off the full beam of a headlamp and turns on the low beam.
- dimmer-switch — a person or thing that dims.
- diotheletical — relating to ditheletism, the doctrine that Christ had two wills
- direct method — a technique of foreign-language teaching in which only the target language is used, little instruction is given concerning formal rules of grammar, and language use is often elicited in situational contexts.
- direct speech — actual words spoken, not quoted or reported
- directorships — Plural form of directorship.
- disenchanting — Present participle of disenchant.
- dispatch case — attaché case.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.
- dutch disease — the deindustrialization of an economy as a result of the discovery of a natural resource, as that which occurred in Holland with the exploitation of North Sea gas, which raised the value of the Dutch currency, making its exports uncompetitive and causing its industry to decline
- dyothelitical — relating to dyotheletism
- earth science — any of various sciences, as geography, geology, or meteorology, that deal with the earth, its composition, or any of its changing aspects.
- echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
- eight o'clock — 8 a.m.
- eighteenpence — The monetary amount of eighteen pence.
- electric hare — (in greyhound racing) a model of a hare, mounted on an electrified rail, which the dogs chase
- electrochemic — electrochemical
- electrophiles — Plural form of electrophile.
- electrophilic — (of a molecule or group) having a tendency to attract or acquire electrons.
- electrophonic — Relating to electronic equipment to produce sound (this adjectival sense is not comparable).
- endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
- enterohepatic — Relating to or denoting the circulation of bile salts and other secretions from the liver to the intestine, where they are reabsorbed into the blood and returned to the liver.
- 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.
- eproctophilia — Sexual arousal from flatulence.
- ergatomorphic — pertaining to an ergatomorph
- eschatologies — Plural form of eschatology.
- ethanoic acid — acetic acid
- ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
- ethnographica — a collection of ethnographic items
- ethnohistoric — relating to ethnohistory
- ethnomedicine — (medicine) traditional folk-medicine.
- ethologically — In an ethological manner.
- eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.