11-letter words containing c, h, a, n, u
- furtherance — the act of furthering; promotion; advancement.
- glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
- grand duchy — a territory ruled by a grand duke or grand duchess.
- hack around — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
- hacking run — (jargon) (Analogy with "bombing run" or "speed run") A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours. May cause you to "change phase the hard way".
- haircutting — an act or instance of cutting the hair.
- hallucinant — a person who experiences hallucinations
- hallucinate — to have hallucinations.
- handcuffing — Present participle of handcuff.
- hard launch — the general or official launch, esp of a website, after which all features, products, and services are understood to be available
- hardecanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- harnoncourt — Nikolaus. 1929–2016, Austrian conductor and cellist, noted for his performances using period instruments
- haunch bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- haunch-bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
- hsuan chiao — Taoism (def 2).
- hue and cry — Early English Law. the pursuit of a felon or an offender with loud outcries or clamor to give an alarm.
- humectation — A moistening.
- hunchbacked — humpbacked.
- inasmuch as — to the extent that, in that
- inauthentic — not authentic: inauthentic Indian jewelry mass-produced in a factory.
- insomuch as — to such an extent or degree; so (usually followed by that).
- ipecacuanha — the dried root of a shrubby South American plant, Cephaelis ipecacuanha, of the madder family.
- janus cloth — a worsted fabric, each side of which has a different color.
- kanchipuram — a city in SE India, in Tamil Nadu: a sacred Hindu town known as "the Benares of the South"; textile industries. Pop: 152 984 (2001)
- knucklehead — a stupid, bumbling, inept person.
- krasny luch — a city in SE Ukraine, E of Donetsk.
- launch into — begin enthusiastically
- launch shoe — an attachment to an aircraft from which a missile is launched
- leprechauns — a dwarf or sprite.
- leuconychia — White discoloration appearing on nails. Also known as white nails.
- leukonychia — Alt form leuconychia.
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- mach number — a number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the medium through which the object is moving. Abbreviation: M.
- machine gun — automatic firearm
- machine-gun — to shoot at with a machine gun.
- machineguns — Plural form of machinegun.
- main gauche — a dagger of the 16th and 17th centuries, held in the left hand in dueling and used to parry the sword of an opponent.
- menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
- monochasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which the main axis produces only a single branch.
- munchhausen — Karl Friedrich Hieronymus [kahrl free-drikh hee-ey-roh-ny-moo s] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx ˌhi eɪˈroʊ nüˌmʊs/ (Show IPA), Baron von [fuh n] /fən/ (Show IPA), 1720–97, German soldier, adventurer, and teller of tales.
- munich pact — the pact signed by Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany on September 29, 1938, by which the Sudetenland was ceded to Germany: often cited as an instance of unwise and unprincipled appeasement of an aggressive nation.
- naked lunch — a novel (1959–66) by William S. Burroughs.
- nemathecium — a wartlike protuberance on the thallus of certain red algae, containing tetraspores, antheridia, or cystocarps.
- neural arch — a bony or cartilaginous arch resting on the chief part of each vertebra and forming a tunnel through which the nerve cord passes