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13-letter words containing c, o, u, h, i

  • no such thing — You can say there is no such thing as something to emphasize that it does not exist or is not possible.
  • non-rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
  • nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
  • nouveau riche — a person who is newly rich: the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.
  • ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
  • outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
  • perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
  • photoacoustic — optoacoustic
  • physoclistous — having the air bladder closed off from the mouth.
  • picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs
  • poison sumach — an anacardiaceous swamp shrub, Rhus (or Toxicodendron) vernix of the southeastern US, that has greenish-white berries and causes an itching rash on contact with the skin
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
  • public school — (in the U.S.) a school that is maintained at public expense for the education of the children of a community or district and that constitutes a part of a system of free public education commonly including primary and secondary schools.
  • quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
  • quadriphonics — quadraphony.
  • quiller-couch — Sir Arthur Thomas ("Q") 1863–1944, English novelist and critic.
  • rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
  • rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
  • schizaeaceous — relating to a type of extinct fern
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
  • scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
  • sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
  • short-circuit — Electricity. to make (an appliance, switch, etc.) inoperable by establishing a short circuit in. to carry (a current) as a short circuit.
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • successorship — the position or state of a successor
  • tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • the conscious — that part of one's mental activity of which one is fully aware at any given time
  • the unco guid — narrow-minded, excessively religious, or self-righteous people
  • think much of — to have a high opinion of
  • thiosulphuric — of or relating to thiosulphuric acid or anything derived from it
  • thoracic duct — the main trunk of the lymphatic system, passing along the spinal column in the thoracic cavity, and conveying a large amount of lymph and chyle into the venous circulation.
  • thurification — the act of incense-burning
  • touch-in-goal — the area at each end of the field outside of a touch-in-goal line.
  • touchline ban — an official prohibition of a manager or coach from being present on or near the field during a match
  • toxicophagous — poison-eating
  • trichopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Trichoptera, comprising the caddisflies.
  • truchet point — (unit, text)   An obsolete variant of the point, equal to 0.188 mm.
  • turbocharging — the process or action of supplying an internal combustion engine or a motor vehicle with a turbocharger
  • unchlorinated — not chlorinated; not treated with chlorine
  • underclothing — clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes.
  • unforthcoming — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
  • unreproaching — not reproaching or blaming
  • unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
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