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15-letter words containing c, a, s, h, u, t

  • eustachian tube — part of the ear
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • fishhook cactus — a large cactus, Ferocactus wislizenii, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having hooked spines and red or yellow flowers.
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • giant schnauzer — one of a German breed of large working dogs, resembling a larger and more powerful version of the standard schnauzer, having a pepper-and-salt or pure black, wiry coat, bushy eyebrows and beard, and a docked tail set moderately high, originally developed as a cattle herder but now often used in police work.
  • gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.
  • gleichschaltung — the enforcement of standardization and the elimination of all opposition within the political, economic, and cultural institutions of a state
  • graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
  • hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
  • hedgehog cactus — any of various rounded, usually spiny cacti of the genus Echinocereus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having bell-shaped flowers that close at night.
  • heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
  • horatius cocles — a legendary Roman hero of the 6th century bc, who defended a bridge over the Tiber against Lars Porsena
  • hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
  • humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
  • judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • mahrisch-ostrau — German name of Moravská Ostrava.
  • male chauvinist — a male who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
  • manasseh cutler — Manasseh, 1742–1823, U.S. Congregational clergyman and scientist: promoted settlement of Ohio; congressman 1801–05.
  • mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
  • neuropsychiatry — the branch of medicine dealing with diseases involving the mind and nervous system.
  • north caucasian — a language family including all the Caucasian languages north of the Caucasian divide, as Kabardian and the Circassian language proper, and a few between the divide and the Black Sea, as Abkhazian.
  • penshurst place — a 14th-century mansion near Tunbridge Wells in Kent: birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney; gardens laid out from 1560
  • pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.
  • pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
  • planter's punch — a punch made with rum, lime juice, sugar, and water or soda.
  • psychoacoustics — the study of sound perception.
  • quasi-technical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
  • quasihistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
  • scatter cushion — Scatter cushions are small cushions for use on sofas and chairs.
  • scheduled caste — (in India) the official name given to the lower castes that are now protected by the government and offered special concessions.
  • schola cantorum — an ecclesiastical choir or choir school.
  • school-gate mum — a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
  • security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
  • security threat — a threat to the security of a country
  • shut one's face — to be silent
  • sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
  • south caucasian — a family of languages including Georgian, Mingrelian, and others that are spoken on the south slopes of the Caucasus and adjacent areas.
  • south china sea — a part of the W Pacific, bounded by SE China, Vietnam, the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and the Philippines.
  • spanish customs — irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased financial allowances, reduced working hours, etc
  • stay the course — to spend some time in a place, in a situation, with a person or group, etc.: He stayed in the army for ten years.
  • student teacher — a student who is studying to be a teacher and who, as part of the training, observes classroom instruction or does closely supervised teaching in an elementary or secondary school.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
  • sumatra camphor — borneol.
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the midas touch — ability to make money
  • theft insurance — insurance against loss or damage of property resulting from theft.
  • tissue-matching — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
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