13-letter words containing r, h, i, n, e, c
- goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
- gopher client — (networking) A program which runs on your local computer and provides a user interface to the Gopher protocol and to gopher servers. Web browsers can act as Gopher clients and simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary terminals, the X Window System, GNU Emacs, and other systems.
- grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- 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.
- gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- gut-wrenching — involving great distress or anguish; agonizing: a gut-wrenching decision.
- hairpin curve — A hairpin curve or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
- 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.
- harness hitch — a hitch forming a loop around a rope, especially one formed at the end of a bowline.
- heartsickness — The condition of being heartsick.
- heartstricken — Shocked; dismayed.
- 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.).
- herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
- herd instinct — the impulse or tendency toward clustering or acting in a group, especially the presumed instinct toward or need for gregariousness and conformity.
- hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
- heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
- heroin addict — sb dependent on heroin
- herringchoker — a native or resident of any of the Maritime Provinces but especially of New Brunswick.
- heterochronic — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
- heterogenetic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterogenesis.
- hieracosphinx — (in ancient Egyptian art) a hawk-headed sphinx
- histaminergic — releasing histamine
- honor society — (in a college, university, or secondary school) a student society that admits members on the basis of academic merit and, sometimes, worthwhile contributions in extracurricular activities.
- hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
- hypercinnabar — (mineral) A form of cinnabar that forms hexagonal crystals.
- hypercyanotic — blueness or lividness of the skin, as from imperfectly oxygenated blood.
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- hypermagnetic — (physics) Extremely magnetic.
- hyperromantic — extremely or excessively romantic
- hypertonicity — Physiology. of or relating to hypertonia.
- hyposecretion — a diminished secretion.
- iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
- impact wrench — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
- in the secret — among the people who know a secret
- incoherencies — incoherence.
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- inspectorship — The condition of being an inspector; the office of an inspector.
- interchanging — Present participle of interchange.
- interchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- intrathecally — In an intrathecal way; into the spinal canal.
- iontophoretic — Of or pertaining to iontophoresis.
- kitchen paper — also kitchen roll
- kitchen range — cooker with oven and hob
- kitchen-diner — a kitchen that has an area intended to be used for eating meals, usually because there is no dining room elsewhere
- lamellibranch — bivalve.
- lateral chain — an open chain of atoms attached to an atom of a larger chain, or to a ring.