13-letter words containing s, u, c, l, e
- escape clause — clause that releases sb from a contract
- estrous cycle — the regular female reproductive cycle of most placental mammals that is under hormonal control and includes a period of heat, followed by ovulation and complex changes of the uterine lining
- eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
- eugeosyncline — a geosyncline characterized by lithology typical of deep ocean environments
- euphemistical — Archaic form of euphemistic.
- excess supply — a situation in which the market supply of a commodity is greater than the market demand for it, thus causing its market price to fall
- exclusionists — Plural form of exclusionist.
- exclusiveness — The state of being exclusive; exclusivity.
- excusableness — The quality of being excusable.
- extracapsular — (anatomy) Situated outside a capsule, especially outside the capsular ligament of a joint.
- extravascular — Situated or happening outside of the blood vessels or lymph vessels.
- facial tissue — a soft, disposable paper tissue especially for cleansing the face or for use as a handkerchief.
- false colours — a flag to which one is not entitled, flown esp in order to deceive
- film sequence — a short piece of film or extract from a film, depicting a specific action or event
- finite clause — a clause with a finite verb in its predicate.
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
- fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
- flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
- focal seizure — an epileptic manifestation arising from a localized anomaly in the brain, as a small tumor or scar, and usually involving a single motor or sensory mechanism but occasionally spreading to other areas and causing convulsions and loss of consciousness.
- foldoc source — The source text of FOLDOC is a single plain text file. FOLDOC is also available on paper from your local printer but, at 700,000+ words, that would be about 2000 pages.
- full sentence — any sentence the form of which exemplifies the most frequently used structural pattern of a particular language, as, in English, any sentence that contains a subject and a predicate; a sentence from which elliptical sentences may be derived by grammatical transformations.
- functionalise — to make functional.
- galactagogues — Plural form of galactagogue.
- gastric ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the stomach's inner wall, caused in part by the corrosive action of the gastric juice on the mucous membrane.
- genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
- gesticulating — Present participle of gesticulate.
- gesticulation — the act of gesticulating.
- gesticulative — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
- glucochlorose — chloralose.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- 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.
- hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
- 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.
- hemicellulose — any of a group of gummy polysaccharides, intermediate in complexity between sugar and cellulose, that hydrolyze to monosaccharides more readily than cellulose.
- hercules-club — Also called Southern prickly ash. a prickly tree, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, of the rue family, having a medicinal bark and berries.
- heteroclitous — heteroclite
- heuristically — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- hexadactylous — hexadactylic
- holosericeous — covered with short, silky hairs.
- horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
- house counsel — a lawyer drawing a full-time salary from a corporation that he or she represents.
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
- 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.
- hypervascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
- impecuniously — In an impecunious manner.
- imputrescible — not liable to decomposition or putrefaction; incorruptible: a tanning process to make skins imputrescible.