13-letter words containing i, h, e, a
- crackle china — porcelain or pottery with intentional crazing
- crash barrier — A crash barrier is a strong low fence built along the side of a road or between the two halves of a motorway in order to prevent accidents.
- creme fraiche — Crème fraiche is a type of thick, slightly sour cream.
- crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
- cryotherapies — Plural form of cryotherapy.
- cryptesthesia — allegedly paranormal perception, as clairvoyance or clairaudience.
- cup of elijah — Elijah's cup.
- 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
- cymbocephalic — scaphocephaly.
- 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.
- dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
- das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- dasht-e-kavir — large salt-desert plateau in NC Iran: c. 18,000 sq mi (46,620 sq km)
- date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
- daylight time — time set usually one hour ahead of the local standard time, widely adopted in the summer to provide extra daylight in the evening
- death benefit — the benefit payable if the holder of a life insurance policy dies before the policy matures
- death tourist — a seriously ill person who seeks to terminate his or her own life by travelling to a country where medically assisted suicide is legal
- death-dealing — fatal; lethal
- 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.
- deemphasizing — Present participle of deemphasize.
- 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.
- demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
- depathologize — (transitive) To cease to treat as a medical disorder.
- dephlegmation — the act of dephlegmating
- dermographism — dermatographia.
- detachability — The quality of being detachable.
- dhu el-hijjah — Islam. the twelfth month of the Muslim calendar, in leap year containing one extra day.
- dialect coach — a person whose job is to train actors to speak in the authentic accent and manner of a particular area
- diaphanometer — an instrument used to measure transparency, esp of the atmosphere
- diaphoretical — Alternative form of diaphoretic.
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- 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.
- diethylacetal — acetal (def 1).
- diiodomethane — methylene iodide.
- dilettanteish — Alternative form of dilettantish.
- dimethylamine — a colourless strong-smelling gas produced from ammonia and methanol, used to produce many industrial and pharmaceutical chemicals
- 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.
- diphenylamine — a colorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble benzene derivative, C 12 H 11 N, used chiefly in the preparation of various dyes, as a stabilizer for nitrocellulose propellants, and for the detection of oxidizing agents in analytical chemistry.
- disaccharides — Plural form of disaccharide.
- dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- discographies — Plural form of discography.
- disenchanting — Present participle of disenchant.
- disenthralled — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.