16-letter words containing c, o, u, h, i
- coronary cushion — a thick band of vascular tissue in the coronet of horses and other hoofed animals that secretes the horny wall of the hoof.
- counter-checking — a check that opposes or restrains.
- cross-cut chisel — a chisel used for making grooves
- cupric hydroxide — a blue, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, Cu(OH) 2 , used in the manufacture of rayon, as a source for copper salts, and as a mordant.
- cut to the quick — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- cytoarchitecture — (biology) The arrangement of cells in an organism or organ.
- dehumidification — Dehumidification is the removal of vapor from a gas-vapor mixture.
- diplomatic pouch — a sealed mailbag containing diplomatic correspondence that is sent free of inspection between a foreign office and its diplomatic or consular post abroad or from one such post to another.
- double-clutching — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
- duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
- electrohydraulic — Relating to electrohydraulics.
- episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
- ethnolinguistics — The field of linguistic anthropology which studies the language of a specific ethnic group.
- figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
- finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
- fish or cut bait — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
- follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
- french community — a cultural and economic association of France, its overseas departments and territories, and former French territories that chose to maintain association after becoming independent republics: formed 1958.
- functional shift — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
- garlic mushrooms — mushrooms, often pan-fried, cooked with garlic
- greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
- health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
- health-conscious — having an active interest in one's health
- heliotherapeutic — Pertaining to heliotherapy.
- hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
- hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
- heteromultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more different polypeptide chains.
- high court judge — a judge who sits in the High Court
- higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
- homeric laughter — loud, hearty laughter, as of the gods.
- horticulturalist — Misspelling of horticulturist.
- huffman encoding — Huffman coding
- huntington beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
- hurricane season — annual cyclone period
- hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.
- hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
- hypostatic union — (In Cristianity) Christ's condition of being, at the same time, both human and divine
- ichthyophthirius — ich.
- immunochemically — In an immunochemical way.
- import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
- in the course of — If something happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time.
- judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- kurdaitcha shoes — (in certain Central Australian Aboriginal tribes) the emu-feather shoes worn by the kurdaitcha on his mission so that his footsteps may not be traced
- league champions — the team that has come top of the league
- lighthouse clock — an American mantel clock of the early 19th century, having the dial and works exposed beneath a glass dome on a tapered, cylindrical body.
- lithium chloride — a white, water-soluble, deliquescent, crystalline solid, LiCl, used chiefly in the manufacture of mineral water, especially lithia water, and as a flux in metallurgy.
- louisiana french — French as spoken in Louisiana; Cajun. Abbreviation: LaF.
- machine moulding — the process of making moulds and cores for castings by mechanical means, usually by compacting the moulding sand by vibration instead of by ramming down
- marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
- mercury chloride — mercuric chloride