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13-letter words containing m, e, l, c, h

  • 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.
  • colour scheme — In a room or house, the colour scheme is the way in which colours have been used to decorate it.
  • column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
  • come to light — to be revealed
  • commonwealths — Plural form of commonwealth.
  • compiled html — (filename extension)   A Microsoft file format for distributing a collection of HTML files, along with their associated images, sounds, etc., as a single compressed archive file. Microsoft use this format for Windows HTML Help files. Most chms include a project (.hhp) file listing the included files and basic settings, a contents (.hhc) file, an index (.hhk) file, html files, and, optionally, image files. Users view chms with hh.exe, the HTML Help viewer installed with Internet Explorer. Filename extension: .chm.
  • complete with — If one thing comes complete with another, it has that thing as an extra or additional part.
  • 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
  • cycloheximide — a toxic antibiotic that inhibits protein synthesis, used as a fungicide in agriculture
  • cymbocephalic — scaphocephaly.
  • demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
  • elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
  • electrochemic — electrochemical
  • electrothermy — the use of electrically produced heat for therapeutic purposes
  • encephalogram — An image, trace, or other record of the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
  • encephalotomy — The dissection of the brain.
  • endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
  • euphemistical — Archaic form of euphemistic.
  • firmer chisel — a narrow-bladed chisel for paring and mortising, driven by hand pressure or with a mallet.
  • 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.
  • fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
  • funeral march — march played for funeral processions
  • gemutlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
  • geochemically — In a geochemical manner.
  • graphemically — In terms of or by means of graphemes.
  • halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
  • 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.
  • hemicellulose — any of a group of gummy polysaccharides, intermediate in complexity between sugar and cellulose, that hydrolyze to monosaccharides more readily than cellulose.
  • hemicolectomy — (surgery) A colectomy involving the removal of only the ascending (right) colon or the descending (left) colon.
  • hemimetabolic — (zoology) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in lacking wings.
  • hemispherical — having the form of a hemisphere.
  • hemocytoblast — a primordial cell capable of developing into any type of blood cell.
  • hemolymphatic — a fluid in the body cavities and tissues of invertebrates, in arthropods functioning as blood and in some other invertebrates functioning as lymph.
  • hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • hexadactylism — Sexdactyly.
  • histochemical — the branch of science dealing with the chemical components of cellular and subcellular tissue.
  • holometabolic — Of, pertaining to, or undergoing holometabolism.
  • holy mackerel — astonishment
  • home-schooler — to teach (one's children) at home instead of sending them to school.
  • homeschoolers — Plural form of homeschooler.
  • homeschooling — a school set up in the home.
  • homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
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