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12-letter words containing h, u, c

  • cruelhearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
  • crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
  • culture hero — a mythical or mythicized historical figure who embodies the aspirations or ideals of a society.
  • curietherapy — a form of radiation therapy using radium
  • curly-haired — having hair that forms curls
  • curtain hook — a hook used to attach a curtain to a curtain rail
  • curule chair — an upholstered folding seat with curved legs used by the highest civil officials of ancient Rome
  • cushion pink — a low-growing mountain plant, Silene acaulis, of Europe and North America, having deep pink to purplish, solitary flowers and forming mosslike patches on rocky or barren ground.
  • custom house — a government office, esp at a port, where customs are collected and ships cleared for entry
  • customhouses — Plural form of customhouse.
  • customs shed — a large building in which customs officers carry out customs inspections
  • cut up rough — to become angry or bad-tempered
  • cutlass fish — any compressed, ribbonlike fish of the genus Trichiurus, having daggerlike teeth.
  • cycle crunch — (jargon)   A situation wherein the number of people trying to use a computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to thrash. This scenario is an inevitable result of Parkinson's Law applied to time-sharing. Usually the only solution is to buy more computer. Happily, this has rapidly become easier since the mid-1980s, so much so that the very term "cycle crunch" now has a faintly archaic flavour; most hackers now use workstations or personal computers as opposed to traditional time-sharing systems.
  • cymotrichous — having wavy hair
  • daughtercard — daughterboard
  • debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
  • debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
  • deux chevaux — a very small, inexpensive automobile
  • disc shutter — a shutter in a movie camera or projector that covers the gap between separate frames
  • discotheques — Plural form of discotheque.
  • double cloth — a cloth used in overcoating, blankets, brocade, etc., made by interweaving two physically discrete fabrics at various points in the pattern by bringing warp and fill yarns from each through the other to be worked on the opposite face of the compound fabric.
  • double dutch — a form of the game of jump rope in which two persons, holding the respective ends of two long jump ropes, swing them in a synchronized fashion, usually directed inward so the ropes are going in opposite directions, for one or two others to jump over.
  • double hitch — a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.
  • double-check — a simultaneous check by two pieces in which the moving of one piece to give check also results in discovering a check by another piece.
  • drum machine — a device that simulates percussion sounds in various combinations and rhythms, and can alter digitally stored drum sounds or make digital recordings of drum sounds.
  • dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
  • duchesse bed — a bed having a suspended, full-length tester.
  • duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
  • duncan phyfe — of, relating to, or resembling the furniture made by Duncan Phyfe, especially the earlier pieces in the Sheraton and Directoire styles.
  • duncan smith — (George) Iain. born 1954, British politician; leader of the Conservative Party (2001–03); secretary of state for work and pensions (2010–2016)
  • duplex chain — a roller chain having two sets of rollers linked together, used for heavy-duty applications
  • dust catcher — Informal. a knickknack or other household object that is little used.
  • dutch belted — one of a breed of black dairy cattle, raised originally in the Netherlands, having a broad white band encircling the body.
  • dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
  • dutch cheese — Inland North. cottage cheese.
  • dutch clover — white clover.
  • dutch guiana — former name of Suriname.
  • dutch harbor — a U.S. naval base on Unalaska Island, in the Aleutian Islands.
  • dutch master — one of a number of renowned and influential Dutch painters
  • dutch settle — a settle having a back so hinged that it can be lowered onto the arms to form a table.
  • duty chemist — a dispensing chemist's that is open to the public for a specific period when other chemists are closed
  • earth colour — any of various brown pigments composed chiefly of iron oxides
  • echinococcus — any of a number of tapeworms of the genus Echinococcus whose larvae are parasitic in humans and domestic animals.
  • echo sounder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.
  • edvard munch — Edvard [ed-vahrd] /ˈɛd vɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1863–1944, Norwegian painter and graphic artist.
  • eleutherarch — the chief of the eleutheri
  • enthusiastic — Having or showing intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
  • escape chute — a fabric tube or chute hinged to the wall of a stairwell and used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
  • ethical drug — a drug which is only available legally with a doctor's prescription or consent
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