15-letter words containing s, e, l, c
- gold prospector — a person who searches for the natural occurrence of gold
- goldilocks zone — a zone around a star having temperatures and other conditions that can support life on planets: Mars is thought to lie on the outer edge of the sun's Goldilocks zone.
- governing class — the social class that holds the power in a country
- graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
- grammaticalness — (of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.
- gulf of fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America
- hair specialist — an expert in the treatment and care of human hair
- half-successful — achieving or having achieved success.
- hamamelidaceous — belonging to the Hamamelidaceae, the witch hazel family of plants.
- hard-shell clam — quahog.
- hard-shell crab — a crab, especially an edible crab, that has not recently molted and has a hard shell.
- hardship clause — a clause in a contract which covers unforeseen events that would make it more difficult for one party to complete the contract, and in which case offers alternative terms
- haversian canal — a microscopic channel in bone, through which a blood vessel runs.
- heliacal rising — rising of a celestial object at approximately the same time as the rising of the sun
- hemicolectomies — Plural form of hemicolectomy.
- hemiglossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a portion of the tongue.
- hendecasyllabic — having 11 syllables.
- hendecasyllable — a word or line of verse of 11 syllables.
- heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
- hercules beetle — a large Neotropical rhinoceros beetle, Dynastes hercules.
- heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- hexylresorcinol — white or yellowish-white, needle-shaped crystals, C 12 H 18 O 2 , used chiefly as an antiseptic and for the expulsion of intestinal worms.
- histochemically — In a histochemical manner.
- holiday clothes — the clothes worn and bought for travelling on holiday, such as swimwear, skiwear, or clothes for hot or cold weather, etc
- holocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having only crystalline components and no glass
- homeostatically — the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.
- homochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth in which the sepals and petals are fused together and indistinguishable
- horatius cocles — a legendary Roman hero of the 6th century bc, who defended a bridge over the Tiber against Lars Porsena
- hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
- hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
- hundred's place — hundred (def 8).
- hydraulic press — a machine permitting a small force applied to a small piston to produce, through fluid pressure, a large force on a large piston.
- hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- hypersomnolence — sleepy; drowsy.
- hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
- hypoinsulinemic — Having hypoinsulinemia.
- identical twins — one of a pair of twins who develop from a single fertilized ovum and therefore have the same genotype, are of the same sex, and usually resemble each other closely.
- imperscriptible — not supported by written authority
- implicativeness — the state or quality of being implicative
- implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
- imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
- imprescriptible — not subject to prescription.
- imprescriptibly — In an imprescriptible manner; obviously.
- in difficulties — in distress, esp. financially
- inaccessibility — not accessible; unapproachable.
- incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
- incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
- inconsequential — of little or no importance; insignificant; trivial.