13-letter words containing h, e, m, i, c
- copy the mail — letters, packages, etc., that are sent or delivered by means of the postal system: Storms delayed delivery of the mail.
- cosmochemical — relating to cosmochemistry
- cosmothetical — cosmothetic
- cough mixture — Cough mixture is the same as cough medicine.
- creme fraiche — Crème fraiche is a type of thick, slightly sour cream.
- crime-fighter — any person, as a law-enforcement officer or government official, who works to prevent crime or to enforce criminal laws.
- cycloheximide — a toxic antibiotic that inhibits protein synthesis, used as a fungicide in agriculture
- cymbocephalic — scaphocephaly.
- cytochemistry — the chemistry of living cells
- decamethonium — a drug that is used to relax or loosen the muscles
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- diffeomorphic — (mathematics) Having a diffeomorphism.
- 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.
- 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.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
- echoic memory — the ability to recapture the exact impression of a sound shortly after the sound has finished
- electrochemic — electrochemical
- endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
- ergatomorphic — pertaining to an ergatomorph
- ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
- ethnomedicine — (medicine) traditional folk-medicine.
- euphemistical — Archaic form of euphemistic.
- exothermicity — (chemistry, physics) The release of heat during an exothermic reaction.
- feinschmecker — gourmet.
- fencing match — a match between fencers
- ferrochromium — a ferroalloy containing up to 70 percent chromium.
- firmer chisel — a narrow-bladed chisel for paring and mortising, driven by hand pressure or with a mallet.
- first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
- game-changing — having the potential to change significantly the outcome of something
- gemutlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
- geochemically — In a geochemical manner.
- graphemically — In terms of or by means of graphemes.
- green machine — A computer or peripheral device that has been designed and built to military specifications for field equipment (that is, to withstand mechanical shock, extremes of temperature and humidity, and so forth). Comes from the olive-drab "uniform" paint used for military equipment.
- haematochezia — Alternative form of hematochezia.
- haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
- halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
- harmonic mean — the mean obtained by taking the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of a set of nonzero numbers.
- harmonic tone — a tone produced by suppressing the fundamental tone and bringing into prominence one of its overtones.
- hate campaign — A hate campaign is a series of actions which are intended to harm or upset someone, or to make other people have a low opinion of them.
- helicoid cyme — an inflorescence, or cyme, in which each flowering branch gives rise to one lateral branch that is coiled snail-like and then expanded.
- heliocentrism — The theory that the sun is the center of the universe, (This theory is historically important and was widely accepted at the time of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.).
- hematological — Hematologic.
- hematopoietic — the formation of blood.
- hemicellulose — any of a group of gummy polysaccharides, intermediate in complexity between sugar and cellulose, that hydrolyze to monosaccharides more readily than cellulose.