13-letter words containing h, e, c, t, i
- kinaesthetics — Alternative spelling of kinesthetics.
- kitchen match — a wooden friction match with a large head, used especially for igniting gas ovens or burners.
- kitchen paper — also kitchen roll
- kitchen range — cooker with oven and hob
- kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
- kitchen-diner — a kitchen that has an area intended to be used for eating meals, usually because there is no dining room elsewhere
- ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
- lateral chain — an open chain of atoms attached to an atom of a larger chain, or to a ring.
- leptocephalic — having a narrow skull
- lethargically — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- lichenization — any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees, etc.
- lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
- liechtenstein — a small principality in central Europe between Austria and Switzerland: economically linked with Switzerland. 65 sq. mi. (168 sq. km). Capital: Vaduz.
- light colonel — a lieutenant colonel.
- light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
- light vehicle — a vehicle designed to carry loads or a small number of passengers up to an officially determined weight, such as a scooter, motorbike, rickshaw, etc
- list enhanced — (operating system, tool) An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
- literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
- load the dice — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- lucifer match — friction match.
- machine-steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
- macrolecithal — megalecithal.
- magnetic head — head (def 33).
- master switch — a switch that can be used to turn on or off the supply of electricity to a building or to certain equipment
- match fitness — the condition of being match-fit
- mathematician — an expert or specialist in mathematics.
- mathematicism — the belief that everything can be explained in mathematical terms
- mechanisation — Alternative spelling of mechanization.
- mechanization — to make mechanical.
- merchant ship — law: commercial vessel
- mesaticephaly — the state or condition of being mesaticephalic or mesocephalic
- messerschmitt — any of several types of fighter aircraft extensively used by the German air force in World War II, especially the ME-109.
- metachromasia — A characteristic change in the colour of staining carried out in biological tissues, exhibited by certain aniline dyes when they bind to particular substances present in these tissues, called chromotropes.
- metachromatic — change of color, especially that due to variation in the temperature of a body.
- metaheuristic — An experimental heuristic method for solving a general class of computational problems by combining user procedures in the hope of obtaining a more efficient or robust procedure.
- metamorphotic — Of or relating to metamorphosis.
- metaphoricity — The power of a metaphor.
- metaphysician — a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.
- metaphysicist — a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.
- metaphysicize — to think, write, etc, metaphysically
- method acting — film, theater: acting approach
- methodistical — Methodistic.
- michelin star — a mark of distinction awarded by the Michelin travel guides to a restaurant in recognition of the high quality of its cooking. A restaurant may receive one, two, or three stars, representing very good, exceptional, or exquisite cuisine, respectively
- microlecithal — having a small amount of yolk, as certain eggs or ova.
- microswitches — Plural form of microswitch.
- microteaching — a scaled-down teaching procedure with a few students under controlled conditions, often videotaped in order to analyze teaching techniques and develop new teaching skills.
- mineral pitch — asphalt.
- mittelschmerz — dull abdominal pain occurring at the time of ovulation, attributed to the presence of free blood in the peritoneal cavity from the ruptured ovarian follicle.
- mnemotechnics — the process or technique of improving or developing the memory.