13-letter words containing c, a, p, u, h
- hire purchase — buying sth by instalments
- hire-purchase — a system of payment for a commodity in regular installments while using it.
- human capital — the collective skills, knowledge, or other intangible assets of individuals that can be used to create economic value for the individuals, their employers, or their community: Education is an investment in human capital that pays off in terms of higher productivity.
- humped cattle — any of several breeds of domestic cattle developed from the Indian species Bos indicus and characterized by a hump of fat and muscle over the shoulders.
- hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
- hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
- hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
- hyperuricemia — an excess of uric acid in the blood, often producing gout.
- hypervascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- kachang puteh — (in Malaysia) roasted or fried nuts or beans
- kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
- lace-up shoes — shoes which are fastened with laces
- launching pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- leptocephalus — a colorless, transparent, flattened larva, especially of certain eels and ocean fishes.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
- mesocephalous — Alternative form of mesocephalic.
- microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
- moustache cup — mustache cup.
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- mycetophagous — That feeds on fungi.
- nymphaeaceous — belonging to the Nymphaeaceae, the water lily family of plants.
- one-punch law — a law prescribing punitive sentences for assault, including assault comprising a single blow
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- parish church — local place of worship
- pass the buck — Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
- patch pumpkin — pumpkin
- pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- photoacoustic — optoacoustic
- phyllocladous — having phylloclades.
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- play catch up — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- play catch-up — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- poison sumach — an anacardiaceous swamp shrub, Rhus (or Toxicodendron) vernix of the southeastern US, that has greenish-white berries and causes an itching rash on contact with the skin
- port harcourt — a seaport in S Nigeria.
- postholocaust — following a holocaust
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- preacher curl — a weightlifting exercise for the biceps in which a barbell is lifted by flexing the elbows, with the upper arms resting on an angled bench
- public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
- public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
- pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
- puritan ethic — work ethic.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.