13-letter words containing m, a, c, h, e, r
- chromatophore — a cell in the skin of frogs, chameleons, etc, in which pigment is concentrated or dispersed, causing the animal to change colour
- chromesthesia — (neurology, psychology) sound-to-color synaesthesia.
- chromotherapy — the use of colour and light as a restorative therapy and to promote mental and physical well-being
- chrysanthemum — A chrysanthemum is a large garden flower with many long, thin petals.
- chub mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomber japonicus, of Atlantic and Pacific seas and parts of the Indian Ocean.
- cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
- city chambers — (in Scotland) the municipal building of a city; town hall
- clishmaclaver — idle talk; gossip
- close harmony — a type of singing in which all the parts except the bass lie close together and are confined to the compass of a tenth
- cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
- coal merchant — a person engaged in the purchase and sale of coal for profit
- cochleariform — having a spoon shape
- colomb-bechar — former name of Béchar.
- commandership — a person who commands.
- copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
- cotton mather — Cotton, 1663–1728, American clergyman and author.
- creme fraiche — Crème fraiche is a type of thick, slightly sour cream.
- death chamber — a room in which someone has died
- 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.
- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- dreamcatchers — Plural form of dreamcatcher.
- elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
- embranchments — Plural form of embranchment.
- encephalogram — An image, trace, or other record of the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
- enchondromata — Plural form of enchondroma.
- encroachments — Plural form of encroachment.
- ergatomorphic — pertaining to an ergatomorph
- farmer cheese — a cheese made by pressing together the soft white curds of whole milk or partly skimmed milk, similar in texture to dry cottage cheese.
- first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
- franche-comte — a former province in E France: once a part of Burgundy.
- franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- freedom march — an organized march protesting a government's restriction of or lack of support for civil rights, especially such a march in support of racial integration in the U.S. in the 1960s.
- fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
- funeral march — march played for funeral processions
- 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.
- hacker humour — A distinctive style of shared intellectual humour found among hackers, having the following marked characteristics: 1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humour having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta). One way to make a hacker laugh: hold a red index card in front of him/her with "GREEN" written on it, or vice-versa (note, however, that this is funny only the first time). 2. Elaborate deadpan parodies of large intellectual constructs, such as specifications (see write-only memory), standards documents, language descriptions (see INTERCAL), and even entire scientific theories (see quantum bogodynamics, computron). 3. Jokes that involve screwily precise reasoning from bizarre, ludicrous, or just grossly counter-intuitive premises. 4. Fascination with puns and wordplay. 5. A fondness for apparently mindless humour with subversive currents of intelligence in it - for example, old Warner Brothers and Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Humour that combines this trait with elements of high camp and slapstick is especially favoured. 6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, ha ha only serious, AI koan. See also filk and retrocomputing. If you have an itchy feeling that all 6 of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom.
- 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.
- hemacytometer — hemocytometer.
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- hemiparasitic — Semiparasitic.
- hemispherical — having the form of a hemisphere.
- hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- hermosa beach — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- heterogametic — (of a species or individual organism) having two unlike gametes.
- histaminergic — releasing histamine