13-letter words containing h, e, n, d, c
- credit crunch — A credit crunch is a period during which there is a sudden reduction in the amount of money that banks and other lenders have available to lend.
- cyberchondria — unfounded anxiety concerning the state of one's health brought on by visiting health and medical websites
- 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
- damson cheese — thick damson jam
- dance hostess — a woman who hosts a ball at her house
- dance therapy — the use of dance or movement for therapeutic purposes; a form of therapy in which people are encouraged to express their feelings through dance or movement.
- dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
- daytona beach — a city in NE Florida, on the Atlantic: a resort with a beach of hard white sand, used since 1903 for motor speed trials. Pop: 64 581 (2003 est)
- debauchedness — The state or quality of being debauched.
- 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
- desynchronize — Disturb the synchronization of; put out of step or phase.
- dieffenbachia — any of various plants belonging to the genus Dieffenbachia, of the arum family, native to tropical America, often cultivated as houseplants for their decorative foliage.
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- digby chicken — a smoked herring.
- disenchanting — Present participle of disenchant.
- disfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of disfranchise.
- disfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfranchise.
- dodecahedrane — (organic compound) One of the Platonic hydrocarbons, C20H20, having the carbon atoms at the vertices of a regular dodecahedron.
- dodecahedrons — Plural form of dodecahedron.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- dodecylphenol — a thick, straw-colored, water-insoluble liquid mixture of isomers having the formula C 18 H 30 O, used chiefly as a solvent and as an intermediate for surface-active agents.
- donald cherry — Donald Eugene ("Don") 1936–95, U.S. jazz trumpeter.
- downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
- dresden china — porcelain ware produced at Meissen, Germany, near Dresden, after 1710.
- dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.
- duc d'enghien — Duc [dyk] /dük/ (Show IPA), (Louis Antoine Henry de Bourbon-Condé) 1772–1804, French prince: executed by Napoleon I.
- dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
- echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
- enchondromata — Plural form of enchondroma.
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
- ethanoic acid — acetic acid
- ethnomedicine — (medicine) traditional folk-medicine.
- field kitchen — the place at which the food for a unit of soldiers in the field is prepared
- finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
- french canada — the areas of Canada, esp in the province of Quebec, where French Canadians predominate
- french endive — endive (def 2).
- french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
- garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
- gnathic index — Craniometry. the ratio of the distance from basion to prosthion to the distance from basion to nasion, expressed in percent of the latter.
- grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
- grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
- ground cherry — Also called husk tomato. any of several plants belonging to the genus Physalis, of the nightshade family, the several species bearing an edible berry enclosed in an enlarged calyx.
- h and d curve — characteristic curve.
- haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood