13-letter words containing t, h, e, c, a
- gnathic index — Craniometry. the ratio of the distance from basion to prosthion to the distance from basion to nasion, expressed in percent of the latter.
- goat's cheese — cheese made from goat's milk
- goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
- grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
- 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.
- hack together — (jargon) To throw something together so it will work. Unlike "kluge together" or "cruft together", this does not necessarily have negative connotations.
- haematochezia — Alternative form of hematochezia.
- half-educated — having undergone education: educated people.
- hallucinative — a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
- halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
- halotolerance — The quality or degree of being halotolerant.
- han character — (character) (From the Han dynasty, 206 B.C.E to 25 C.E.) One of the set of glyphs common to Chinese (where they are called "hanzi"), Japanese (where they are called kanji), and Korean (where they are called hanja). Han characters are generally described as "ideographic", i.e., picture-writing; but see the reference below. Modern Korean, Chinese and Japanese fonts may represent a given Han character as somewhat different glyphs. However, in the formulation of Unicode, these differences were folded, in order to conserve the number of code positions necessary for all of CJK. This unification is referred to as "Han Unification", with the resulting character repertoire sometimes referred to as "Unihan".
- hand-stitched — stitched by hand rather than by a machine
- 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.
- hatchet-faced — having a face with narrow dimensions and sharp features
- hate campaign — A hate campaign is a series of actions which are intended to harm or upset someone, or to make other people have a low opinion of them.
- haute couture — high fashion; the most fashionable and influential dressmaking and designing.
- haute cuisine — fine or gourmet cooking; food preparation as an art.
- health center — medical clinic
- health centre — A health centre is a building in which a group of doctors have offices or surgeries where their patients can visit them.
- heartsickness — The condition of being heartsick.
- heartstricken — Shocked; dismayed.
- heat capacity — the heat required to raise the temperature of a substance one degree.
- heavenly city — the abode of God and His saints; heaven. Rev. 21:2.
- hecate strait — a strait in central British Columbia, Canada, between the mainland and the Queen Charlotte Islands. 160 miles (257 km) long and 40–80 miles (64–129 km) wide.
- heliotropical — heliotropic
- hemacytometer — hemocytometer.
- hematological — Hematologic.
- hematopoietic — the formation of blood.
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- hemimetabolic — (zoology) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in lacking wings.
- hemiparasitic — Semiparasitic.
- hemocytoblast — a primordial cell capable of developing into any type of blood cell.
- hemolymphatic — a fluid in the body cavities and tissues of invertebrates, in arthropods functioning as blood and in some other invertebrates functioning as lymph.
- heortological — of or relating to heortology
- hepatectomies — Plural form of hepatectomy.
- heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
- heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
- herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
- hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
- heroin addict — sb dependent on heroin
- heterarchical — Of or pertaining to heterarchy.
- heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- heterocarpous — (of a plant) producing more than one type of fruit
- heterogametic — (of a species or individual organism) having two unlike gametes.
- heterographic — Misspelled; of or pertaining to an incorrect spelling or a spelling that differs from accepted standards.
- heterological — (grammar) Of an adjective, not describing itself.
- heteroplastic — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.