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13-letter words containing a, r, u, h, e

  • chamber music — Chamber music is classical music written for a small number of instruments.
  • chapter house — A chapter house is the building or set of rooms in the grounds of a cathedral where the members of the clergy hold their meetings.
  • charles louis — (Karl Ludwig Johann) 1771–1847, archduke of Austria.
  • charmed quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 1.0 to 1.6 GeV/c2, a positive charge that is 2⁄3 the charge of an electron, +1 charm, and zero strangeness
  • charnel house — A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.
  • chateaubriand — François René (frɑ̃swa rəne), Vicomte de Chateaubriand. 1768–1848, French writer and statesman: a precursor of the romantic movement in France; his works include Le Génie du Christianisme (1802) and Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1849–50)
  • chemautotroph — an organism, such as a bacterium, that obtains its energy from inorganic reactions using simple compounds, such as ammonia or hydrogen sulphide
  • chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
  • cherry laurel — a Eurasian rosaceous evergreen shrub, Prunus laurocerasus, having glossy aromatic leaves, white flowers, and purplish-black fruits
  • choripetalous — polypetalous
  • chrysanthemum — A chrysanthemum is a large garden flower with many long, thin petals.
  • chub mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomber japonicus, of Atlantic and Pacific seas and parts of the Indian Ocean.
  • church father — any of the writers on Christian doctrine of the pre-Scholastic period
  • church parade — a parade by servicemen or members of a uniformed organization for the purposes of attending religious services
  • churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
  • claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • cochlear duct — a spiral tube enclosed in the bony canal of the cochlea.
  • counter shaft — A counter shaft is a shaft that runs parallel to the main shaft in a gearbox, and carries the pinion wheels.
  • counterchange — to change parts, qualities, etc
  • countercharge — a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser
  • countershafts — Plural form of countershaft.
  • counterthreat — an opposing or retaliatory threat
  • court hearing — an official meeting held in court
  • cruel-hearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
  • crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
  • culture clash — a conflict arising from the interaction of people with different cultural values
  • curb exchange — American Stock Exchange.
  • daughter cell — either of the two cells that result from the division of a cell, as in mitosis
  • daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
  • death futures — life insurance policies of terminally ill people that are bought speculatively for a lump sum by a company, enabling it to collect the proceeds of the policies when the sufferers die
  • death tourist — a seriously ill person who seeks to terminate his or her own life by travelling to a country where medically assisted suicide is legal
  • dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
  • deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
  • diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
  • dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • double-header — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
  • dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
  • erythematosus — (pathology) An eruption of red lesions.
  • ethnocultural — Relating to or denoting a particular ethnic group.
  • eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
  • false bulrush — a tall reedlike marsh plant, Typha latifolia, with straplike leaves and flowers in long brown sausage-shaped spikes: family Typhaceae
  • father figure — a man embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the male parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its father.
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • fish geranium — zonal geranium.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
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