13-letter words containing l, i, s, c, h
- holosericeous — covered with short, silky hairs.
- homeschooling — a school set up in the home.
- hospital care — medical treatment provided in a hospital
- hospital case — a patient that is being, or needs to be, treated in a hospital
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
- huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
- hydrocolloids — Plural form of hydrocolloid.
- hydrostatical — Alternative form of hydrostatic.
- hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
- hyperphysical — being above or beyond the physical; immaterial; supernatural.
- hypochlorites — Plural form of hypochlorite.
- hyposulphuric — relating to sulphur which is in a lower state of oxidation than it is in sulphuric compounds
- hypotheticals — Plural form of hypothetical.
- hypsometrical — Of or pertaining to hypsometry.
- ichthyologist — the branch of zoology dealing with fishes.
- in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- infant school — In Britain, an infant school is a school for children between the ages of five and seven.
- insulin shock — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
- isochronously — In an isochronous manner.
- john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
- junior school — a school for children aged seven to eleven, similar to a U.S. elementary school.
- kettle stitch — (in handsewing) a knot tied in the thread that links one section to the next.
- kettle-stitch — a stitch used in hand-sewn books, at the head and tail, to hold sheets or sections together
- kosher pickle — a garlic-flavored pickle, sold especially in Jewish delicatessens.
- kristallnacht — a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed.
- ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
- lickerishness — Quality of being lickerish.
- liechtenstein — a small principality in central Europe between Austria and Switzerland: economically linked with Switzerland. 65 sq. mi. (168 sq. km). Capital: Vaduz.
- life is cheap — You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
- light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
- lissotrichous — having straight hair.
- 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.
- lithoglyptics — The art of cutting and engraving gems.
- logical shift — (programming) (Either shift left logical or shift right logical) Machine-level operations available on nearly all processors which move each bit in a word one or more bit positions in the given direction. A left shift moves the bits to more significant positions (like multiplying by two), a right shift moves them to less significant positions (like dividing by two). The comparison with multiplication and division breaks down in certain circumstances - a logical shift may discard bits that are shifted off either end of the word and does not preserve the sign of the word (positive or negative). Logical shift is approriate when treating the word as a bit string or a sequence of bit fields, whereas arithmetic shift is appropriate when treating it as a binary number. The word to be shifted is usually stored in a register, or possibly in memory.
- lophotrichous — (biology, of bacteria) Having multiple flagella located at the same point, so that they can act in concert to drive the bacterium in a single direction.
- lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
- lymphocytosis — an abnormal increase in the number of lymphocytes in the blood.
- machiavellism — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- machine-steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
- melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
- mesaticephaly — the state or condition of being mesaticephalic or mesocephalic
- mesencephalic — Anatomy. the midbrain.
- mesocephalism — mesocephaly
- 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
- microcephalus — An abnormally small head.