13-letter words containing r, e, c, l
- green channel — the route followed in passing through customs in an airport, etc by passengers claiming to have no dutiable goods to declare
- grossglockner — a mountain in S Austria: highest peak in the Hohe Tauern range. 12,457 feet (3799 meters).
- ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- hair clippers — device for trimming hair
- hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
- halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
- halotolerance — The quality or degree of being halotolerant.
- haskell curry — (person) Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-09-12 - 1982-09-01). The logician who re-invented and developed combinatory logic. The functional programming language Haskell was named after him.
- health center — medical clinic
- health centre — A health centre is a building in which a group of doctors have offices or surgeries where their patients can visit them.
- hefner candle — a German unit of luminous intensity, equal to 0.92 of a candela.
- 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.).
- heliotropical — heliotropic
- helispherical — spiral
- helper t cell — a T cell that stimulates B cells to produce antibody against a foreign substance, using lymphokines or direct contact as a signal.
- helper t-cell — a type of T cell that helps coordinate the immune response, especially by activating B cells: the AIDS virus targets and destroys these T cells
- hemispherical — having the form of a hemisphere.
- heortological — of or relating to heortology
- hercules-club — Also called Southern prickly ash. a prickly tree, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, of the rue family, having a medicinal bark and berries.
- hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- heterarchical — Of or pertaining to heterarchy.
- heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- heteroclitous — heteroclite
- heterological — (grammar) Of an adjective, not describing itself.
- heteroplastic — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
- heterothallic — having mycelia of two unlike types, both of which must participate in the sexual process. Compare homothallic (def 1).
- heuristically — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- hieroglyphics — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
- high-coloured — (of the complexion) deep red or purplish; florid
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- hockey player — sportsperson: plays hockey
- holosericeous — covered with short, silky hairs.
- holy mackerel — astonishment
- home-schooler — to teach (one's children) at home instead of sending them to school.
- homeschoolers — Plural form of homeschooler.
- homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
- homopolymeric — relating to or made of homopolymers
- horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
- hospital care — medical treatment provided in a hospital
- huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
- hydrocephalic — of or relating to hydrocephalus.
- hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- hydrochloride — a salt, especially of an alkaloid, formed by the direct union of hydrochloric acid with an organic base that makes the organic constituent more soluble.
- hydroelectric — pertaining to the generation and distribution of electricity derived from the energy of falling water or any other hydraulic source.
- hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
- hygrometrical — Alternative form of hygrometric.
- hyperactively — In a hyperactive manner.
- hypercalcemia — an abnormally large amount of calcium in the blood.
- hypercritical — excessively or meticulously critical; overcritical.