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13-letter words containing h, e, l, i, o

  • cohesive soil — sticky soil such as clay or clayey silt whose strength depends on the surface tension of capillary water
  • colleagueship — workplace companionship
  • collectorship — The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
  • collieshangie — a quarrel
  • column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
  • come to light — to be revealed
  • compiled html — (filename extension)   A Microsoft file format for distributing a collection of HTML files, along with their associated images, sounds, etc., as a single compressed archive file. Microsoft use this format for Windows HTML Help files. Most chms include a project (.hhp) file listing the included files and basic settings, a contents (.hhc) file, an index (.hhk) file, html files, and, optionally, image files. Users view chms with hh.exe, the HTML Help viewer installed with Internet Explorer. Filename extension: .chm.
  • complete with — If one thing comes complete with another, it has that thing as an extra or additional part.
  • copy the mail — letters, packages, etc., that are sent or delivered by means of the postal system: Storms delayed delivery of the mail.
  • 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.
  • cosmochemical — relating to cosmochemistry
  • cosmothetical — cosmothetic
  • council house — In Britain, a council house is a house that is owned by a local council and that people can rent at a low cost.
  • counselorship — The function and rank or office of a counselor.
  • cove lighting — indirect lighting directed upward from an interior cornice or the like toward a cove at the edge of the ceiling.
  • coxwell chair — Cogswell chair.
  • cup of elijah — Elijah's cup.
  • cycloheximide — a toxic antibiotic that inhibits protein synthesis, used as a fungicide in agriculture
  • cymbocephalic — scaphocephaly.
  • das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
  • demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
  • demythologise — to divest of mythological or legendary attributes or forms, as in order to permit clearer appraisal and understanding: to demythologize the music dramas of Richard Wagner for modern listeners.
  • demythologize — to eliminate all mythical elements from (a piece of writing, esp the Bible) so as to arrive at an essential meaning
  • dendrophilous — living in or on trees; arboreal.
  • depathologize — (transitive) To cease to treat as a medical disorder.
  • dephlegmation — the act of dephlegmating
  • devil worship — the worship of Satan or of a demon
  • 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.
  • dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
  • diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
  • diethyl oxide — ether (def 1).
  • dimethylketol — acetoin.
  • dinitrophenol — any of the six isomers consisting of phenol where two hydrogen atoms are substituted by nitro groups, C 6 H 4 N 2 O 5 , used in dyes and wood preservatives, and in biochemistry to uncouple oxidative phosphorylation.
  • diotheletical — relating to ditheletism, the doctrine that Christ had two wills
  • diphenoxylate — a substance, C 30 H 32 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride in the treatment of diarrhea.
  • disfellowship — (in some Protestant religions) the status of a member who, because of some serious infraction of church policy, has been denied the church's sacraments and any post of responsibility and is officially shunned by other members.
  • dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • dolichocephal — a person with a head much longer than it is broad
  • domain handle — (networking)   Information held by a domain name registrar about a registrant (the person or organisation that owns the name). Typically the registrar stores one copy of this information and refers to that copy for each additional domain registered by the same person. The information would include basic contact details: name, e-mail address, etc. and billing information. Some of this information would be used to populate the whois database entry for a domain.
  • doppler shift — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
  • down the line — complete, full, unreserved, or whole-hearted: a down-the-line endorsement.
  • down-the-line — complete, full, unreserved, or whole-hearted: a down-the-line endorsement.
  • downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • dyothelitical — relating to dyotheletism
  • ecophysiology — the branch of physiology that deals with the physiological processes of organisms with respect to their environment.
  • eight o'clock — 8 a.m.
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