13-letter words containing t, h, a, c
- hypometabolic — Relating to hypometabolism.
- hypothecating — Present participle of hypothecate.
- hypothecation — to pledge to a creditor as security without delivering over; mortgage.
- hypotheticals — Plural form of hypothetical.
- hypsometrical — Of or pertaining to hypsometry.
- hyracotherium — eohippus.
- iatrochemical — relating to iatrochemistry or iatrochemists
- iceman cometh — a play (1946) by Eugene O'Neill.
- ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
- ichthyopsidan — a member of the class Ichthyopsida
- ichthyosaurus — ichthyosaur.
- idiochromatic — (of a mineral) deriving a characteristic color from its capacity to absorb certain light rays.
- impact wrench — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
- in the act of — while committing: crime, transgression
- infant school — In Britain, an infant school is a school for children between the ages of five and seven.
- inhabitancies — Plural form of inhabitancy.
- inharmonicity — the quality of being inharmonic
- interchanging — Present participle of interchange.
- interchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- intrathecally — In an intrathecal way; into the spinal canal.
- intrathoracic — (anatomy) Within the thorax.
- jack-the-rags — a rag-and-bone man
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- john mccarthy — (person, artificial intelligence) A pioneer of artificial intelligence (he coined ther term). He invented Lisp at MIT in the late 1950s and later worked at SAIL. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- joseph crater — Joseph Force [fawrs,, fohrs] /fɔrs,, foʊrs/ (Show IPA), 1889–? a judge of the New York State Supreme Court: his mysterious disappearance on August 6, 1930, has never been solved.
- joseph's coat — an ornamental species of pigweed (Amaranthus tricolor) having red, yellow, and green upper leaves
- joseph's-coat — a cultivated form of Amaranthus tricolor, having headlike clusters of small flowers and blotched and colored leaves.
- kachang puteh — (in Malaysia) roasted or fried nuts or beans
- kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
- kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
- kinaesthetics — Alternative spelling of kinesthetics.
- kitchen match — a wooden friction match with a large head, used especially for igniting gas ovens or burners.
- kitchen paper — also kitchen roll
- kitchen range — cooker with oven and hob
- kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
- kristallnacht — a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed.
- labyrinthical — Labyrinthine; like or relating to a labyrinth.
- ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
- lateral chain — an open chain of atoms attached to an atom of a larger chain, or to a ring.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- laughter club — a group of people who meet regularly to take part in communal laughing for therapeutic effect
- lead chromate — a yellow crystalline compound, PbCrO 4 , toxic, insoluble in water: used as an industrial paint pigment.
- leatherjacket — Also called leather jack. any of several carangid fishes having narrow, linear scales embedded in the skin at various angles, especially Oligoplites saurus, found in tropical American waters.
- leptocephalic — having a narrow skull
- leptocephalus — a colorless, transparent, flattened larva, especially of certain eels and ocean fishes.
- lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- lethargically — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- lichenization — any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees, etc.
- list enhanced — (operating system, tool) An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
- literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy