13-letter words containing s, a, l, c
- gynaecologist — (UK, Canada, dated in US) A physician who specialises in diseases of the female reproductive system.
- hair clippers — device for trimming hair
- half-scottish — Also, Scots. of or relating to Scotland, its people, or their language.
- halicarnassus — an ancient city of Caria, in SW Asia Minor: site of the Mausoleum, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
- hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
- hand controls — a set of controls in some cars, operated by hand, that have the same function as the accelerator, brake, and clutch pedals
- 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.
- helispherical — spiral
- hemispherical — having the form of a hemisphere.
- hemocytoblast — a primordial cell capable of developing into any type of blood cell.
- heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
- heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- heteroplastic — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
- heuristically — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- hexadactylism — Sexdactyly.
- hexadactylous — hexadactylic
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- histochemical — the branch of science dealing with the chemical components of cellular and subcellular tissue.
- hospital care — medical treatment provided in a hospital
- hospital case — a patient that is being, or needs to be, treated in a hospital
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
- 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.
- hydrostatical — Alternative form of hydrostatic.
- hyperphysical — being above or beyond the physical; immaterial; supernatural.
- hypervascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- hypotheticals — Plural form of hypothetical.
- hypsometrical — Of or pertaining to hypsometry.
- ideal crystal — a crystal in which there are no defects or impurities
- idealized csp — (language) A programming language combining simply typed, call-by-name procedures with asynchronous communicating processes, assuming fair parallel execution. Idealized CSP generalises Anthony Hoare's original CSP and Kahn's networks of deterministic processes, and is closely related to Parallel Algol by Stephen Brookes of CMU. Procedures permit the encapsulation of common protocols and parallel programming idioms. Local variables and local channel declarations provide a way to delimit the scope of interference between parallel agents, and allow a form of concurrent object-oriented programming.
- identicalness — The state or quality of being identical.
- illogicalness — The quality of being illogical.
- imagistically — (often initial capital letter) a theory or practice of a group of poets in England and America between 1909 and 1917 who believed that poetry should employ the language of common speech, create new rhythms, have complete freedom in subject matter, and present a clear, concentrated, and precise image.
- immarcescible — (rare) Permanent, enduring; that does not perish.
- impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
- imperialistic — the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.
- in sb's place — If you say what you would have done in someone else's place, you say what you would have done if you had been in their situation and had been experiencing what they were experiencing.
- incapableness — The quality or state of being incapable; incapability.
- inclusion map — a map of a set to itself in which each element of a given subset of the set is mapped to itself.
- incompatibles — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- incondensable — not condensable; incapable of being condensed.
- inconstruable — unable to be construed
- incontestable — incapable of being contested; not open to dispute; incontrovertible: incontestable proof.
- incontestably — incapable of being contested; not open to dispute; incontrovertible: incontestable proof.
- inconversable — (obsolete) uncommunicative; reserved.
- incurableness — The state or condition of being incurable.
- indescribable — not describable; too extraordinary for description: a scene of indescribable confusion; indescribable euphoria.
- indescribably — not describable; too extraordinary for description: a scene of indescribable confusion; indescribable euphoria.
- indissociable — Unable to be dissociated.
- indissociably — In a way that does not allow dissociation; having an inextricable link.