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11-letter words containing c, o, u, h

  • echoviruses — Plural form of echovirus.
  • embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
  • endochylous — having water-storing cells
  • endothecium — (biology) The tissue found in the walls of anthers, and in moss capsules.
  • escarmouche — a skirmish
  • escutcheons — Plural form of escutcheon.
  • euchologion — a collection of prayers
  • euchromatin — the part of a chromosome that constitutes the major genes and does not stain strongly with basic dyes when the cell is not dividing
  • fine bouche — a refined taste; educated palate.
  • fish course — A fish course is a part of a meal in which fish is served, usually before the entrée.
  • forevouched — previously avowed
  • four-h club — an organization sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, established chiefly to instruct young people, originally in rural areas, in modern farming methods and other useful skills, as carpentry and home economics.
  • fourchettes — Plural form of fourchette.
  • fucoxanthin — a brown carotenoid pigment occurring in brown algae, diatoms, and dinoflagellates.
  • furthcoming — an action raised to recover property which has been arrested in the hands of a third party
  • glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
  • grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
  • ground itch — a disease of the skin of the feet, caused by penetration of hookworm larvae, characterized by a blisterlike eruption and itching.
  • groundcloth — A groundcloth is a piece of waterproof material which you put on the ground to sleep on when you are camping.
  • hack around — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
  • hair colour — the colour or shade of someone's hair
  • harnoncourt — Nikolaus. 1929–2016, Austrian conductor and cellist, noted for his performances using period instruments
  • haunch bone — the ilium or hipbone.
  • haunch-bone — the ilium or hipbone.
  • haute ecole — a series of intricate steps, gaits, etc., taught to an exhibition horse.
  • heat source — sth that generates warmth
  • hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
  • hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
  • hiccoughing — Present participle of hiccough.
  • high colour — (hardware)   A colour depth of 16 (or 15) bits per pixel. Compare true colour.
  • hills cloud — a hypothetical dense, disc-shaped area within the Oort cloud
  • hippocampus — Classical Mythology. a sea horse with two forefeet, and a body ending in the tail of a dolphin or fish.
  • hircocervus — (in classical and medieval fable) a mythical creature that is half goat and half stag
  • hocus-pocus — a meaningless chant or expression used in conjuring or incantation.
  • holluschick — a young male fur seal.
  • holocaustic — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
  • homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
  • honeylocust — any of a genus (Gleditsia) of trees of the caesalpinia family, esp. a North American species (G. triacanthos) usually having strong, thorny branches, featherlike foliage, and large, twisted pods containing beanlike seeds and a sweet pulp
  • honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
  • honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
  • horn clause — (logic)   A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
  • hour circle — a great circle on the celestial sphere passing through the celestial poles and containing a point on the celestial sphere, as a star or the vernal equinox.
  • house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
  • house music — an up-tempo style of disco music characterized by deep bass rhythms, piano or synthesizer melodies, and soul-music singing, sometimes with elements of rap music.
  • house place — (in medieval architecture) a room common to all the inhabitants of a house, as a hall.
  • house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
  • house-craft — skill in domestic management
  • hpcode-plus — A descendant of HPcode with data types, developed to be an ANDF language.
  • hsuan chiao — Taoism (def 2).
  • huitlacoche — Corn smut prepared as a delicacy.
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