13-letter words containing c, a, h, e, u
- changefulness — Propensity to change.
- 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.
- chateau d'eau — an architecturally treated fountain or cistern.
- 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)
- chattel house — (esp in Barbados) a movable wooden dwelling, usually set on a foundation of loose stones on rented land
- chemautotroph — an organism, such as a bacterium, that obtains its energy from inorganic reactions using simple compounds, such as ammonia or hydrogen sulphide
- chemical pulp — wood pulp made from chemically treated and cooked wood fibers and used in the manufacture of better grades of paper.
- 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
- chestnut clam — Astarte (def 2).
- chestnut coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 3/16 to 1 5/8 inch (3 to 4 cm).
- chilean guava — a tropical shrub or small tree, Ugni molinae, of the myrtle family, having leathery, oval leaves, rose-pink flowers, and blue-black, edible fruit.
- 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.
- chuckleheaded — a stupid person; blockhead.
- 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.
- cinchonaceous — relating to cinchona
- cinematheques — Plural form of cinematheque.
- 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.
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- conchylaceous — Of or relating to shells; resembling a shell.
- cough and die — (jargon) barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
- 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
- cup of elijah — Elijah's cup.
- curb exchange — American Stock Exchange.
- daughter cell — either of the two cells that result from the division of a cell, as in mitosis
- debauchedness — The state or quality of being debauched.
- decamethonium — a drug that is used to relax or loosen the muscles
- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- dual-attached — The form of FDDI interface where a device is connected to both FDDI token-passing rings, so that uninterrupted operation continues in the event of a failure of either of the rings. All connections to the main FDDI rings are dual-attached. Typically, a small number of critical infrastructure devices such as routers and concentrators are dual-attached, whereas host computers are normally single-attached or dual-homed to a router or concentrator. For example, a ring could be formed between a single router and two concentrators (all dual-attached) then all other components that need to be fault-tolerant (typically file servers) can be dual-homed to both concentrators.
- dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.