13-letter words containing o, r, c, h
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- john fletcher — John, 1579–1625, English dramatist: collaborated with Francis Beaumont 1606?–16; with Philip Massinger 1613–25.
- john mccarthy — (person, artificial intelligence) A pioneer of artificial intelligence (he coined ther term). He invented Lisp at MIT in the late 1950s and later worked at SAIL. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- johnny collar — a small, pointed collar on a shirt, dress bodice, or the like, with close-fitting neckline.
- joseph crater — Joseph Force [fawrs,, fohrs] /fɔrs,, foʊrs/ (Show IPA), 1889–? a judge of the New York State Supreme Court: his mysterious disappearance on August 6, 1930, has never been solved.
- junior school — a school for children aged seven to eleven, similar to a U.S. elementary school.
- korf, richard — Richard Korf
- kosher pickle — a garlic-flavored pickle, sold especially in Jewish delicatessens.
- lead chromate — a yellow crystalline compound, PbCrO 4 , toxic, insoluble in water: used as an industrial paint pigment.
- lecherousness — The property of being lecherous.
- lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- lexicographer — a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary.
- lexicographic — Like a dictionary, relating to lexicography (the writing of a dictionary).
- lissotrichous — having straight hair.
- literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
- lithontriptic — of or relating to destroying bladder or kidney stones
- lizard orchid — a European orchid, Himantoglossum hircinum, rare in Britain, having a spike of grey-green flowers smelling of goats
- logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
- logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
- 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.
- low churchman — a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.
- lower chamber — lower house.
- lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
- lunch counter — a counter, as in a store or restaurant, where light meals and snacks are served or are sold to be taken out.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- lymphographic — of or relating to lymphography
- lymphosarcoma — a malignant tumor in lymphatic tissue, caused by the growth of abnormal lymphocytes.
- lymphotrophic — carrying nutrients from the lymph to the tissues.
- maccheroncini — thin pasta tubes made from wheat flour
- machine error — an error caused by a fault or defect in a machine rather than by human error
- macrocephalic — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
- macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
- macrolecithal — megalecithal.
- manhole cover — a removable metal plate covering a shaft that leads down to a sewer or drain
- marching song — a song with the rhythm of a march, esp sung by marching soldiers
- marchionesses — Plural form of marchioness.
- mare chronium — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- mastigophoric — Carrying or wielding a whip.
- matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
- matched order — an order placed with a broker to buy a specified stock at a price above the market price with the intention of immediately selling the stock through another broker at the same price. It is designed to give the appearance of active trading in the stock.
- melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
- mercurochrome — Merbromin.
- metachromasia — A characteristic change in the colour of staining carried out in biological tissues, exhibited by certain aniline dyes when they bind to particular substances present in these tissues, called chromotropes.
- metachromatic — change of color, especially that due to variation in the temperature of a body.
- metamorphotic — Of or relating to metamorphosis.
- metaphoricity — The power of a metaphor.
- methocarbamol — a substance, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO 5 , used as a muscle relaxant in combination with other drugs in the treatment of acute, painful musculoskeletal conditions.
- microcephalia — Microcephaly.
- microcephalic — having a head with a small braincase.