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13-letter words containing t, h, e, c, n, i

  • decahistidine — An oligopeptide consisting of ten histidine moieties.
  • decamethonium — a drug that is used to relax or loosen the muscles
  • dechorionated — (biology) From which the chorion has been removed.
  • demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
  • disenchanting — Present participle of disenchant.
  • dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
  • dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.
  • earth science — any of various sciences, as geography, geology, or meteorology, that deal with the earth, its composition, or any of its changing aspects.
  • echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
  • eighteenpence — The monetary amount of eighteen pence.
  • electrophonic — Relating to electronic equipment to produce sound (this adjectival sense is not comparable).
  • endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
  • enterohepatic — Relating to or denoting the circulation of bile salts and other secretions from the liver to the intestine, where they are reabsorbed into the blood and returned to the liver.
  • epitrachelion — The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
  • ethanoic acid — acetic acid
  • ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
  • ethnographica — a collection of ethnographic items
  • ethnohistoric — relating to ethnohistory
  • ethnomedicine — (medicine) traditional folk-medicine.
  • fencing match — a match between fencers
  • festschriften — Plural form of festschrift.
  • field kitchen — the place at which the food for a unit of soldiers in the field is prepared
  • fire watching — the job of watching for fires, especially those caused by aerial bombardment
  • franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
  • fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
  • gangster chic — a cinematic or literary genre which seeks to glamorize the criminal underworld
  • gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
  • generic thunk — (programming)   A software mechanism that allows a 16-bit Windows application to load and call a Win32 DLL under Windows NT and Windows 95. See also flat thunk, universal thunk.
  • genetotrophic — pertaining to nutrition and genetics
  • 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.
  • goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
  • gopher client — (networking)   A program which runs on your local computer and provides a user interface to the Gopher protocol and to gopher servers. Web browsers can act as Gopher clients and simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary terminals, the X Window System, GNU Emacs, and other systems.
  • 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.
  • gut-wrenching — involving great distress or anguish; agonizing: a gut-wrenching decision.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 cuisine — fine or gourmet cooking; food preparation as an art.
  • heartsickness — The condition of being heartsick.
  • heartstricken — Shocked; dismayed.
  • heavenly city — the abode of God and His saints; heaven. Rev. 21:2.
  • heliocentrism — The theory that the sun is the center of the universe, (This theory is historically important and was widely accepted at the time of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.).
  • heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
  • herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
  • herd instinct — the impulse or tendency toward clustering or acting in a group, especially the presumed instinct toward or need for gregariousness and conformity.
  • hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
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