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15-letter words containing c, h, a, n, u

  • quasi-technical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
  • quiche lorraine — a quiche containing bits of bacon or ham and often cheese.
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
  • round character — a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.
  • rubbing alcohol — a poisonous solution of about 70 percent isopropyl or denatured ethyl alcohol, usually containing a perfume oil, used chiefly in massaging.
  • sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
  • sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
  • sausage machine — a machine for making sausages
  • scatter cushion — Scatter cushions are small cushions for use on sofas and chairs.
  • schola cantorum — an ecclesiastical choir or choir school.
  • schopenhauerian — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • schopenhauerism — the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.
  • shut one's face — to be silent
  • so much/so many — You use so much and so many when you are saying that there is a definite limit to something but you are not saying what this limit is.
  • 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
  • spinach-rhubarb — an Ethiopian plant, Rumex abyssinicus, of the buckwheat family, having leaves that are sometimes used as spinach and leafstalks sometimes used as rhubarb.
  • splanchnopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
  • 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.
  • sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • 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.
  • suicide machine — a device designed to permit a terminally ill person to commit suicide, as by the automatic injection of a lethal drug.
  • t'ai chi ch'uan — a Chinese martial art and form of stylized, meditative exercise, characterized by methodically slow circular and stretching movements and positions of bodily balance.
  • tehuacan valley — a desert valley site in Puebla, Mexico, where aridity has preserved the vegetable remains of communities from 9000 b.c. to historic times, thus documenting the transition from hunting and gathering to the largely agricultural subsistence of the full Neolithic phase (1500–900 b.c.).
  • 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.
  • to pack a punch — If something packs a punch, it has a very powerful effect.
  • turn the scales — to determine or decide something uncertain
  • unaesthetically — offensive to the aesthetic sense; lacking in beauty or sensory appeal; unpleasant, as an object, design, arrangement, etc.: an unaesthetic combination of colors.
  • unauthenticated — to establish as genuine.
  • unchallengeably — in a way that cannot be challenged; in an unchallengeable manner
  • uncharacterized — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
  • unchoreographed — not choreographed; not pre-arranged or pre-prepared; unplanned
  • unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
  • unchronological — arranged in the order of time: a chronological list of events.
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • underresearched — diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover or revise facts, theories, applications, etc.: recent research in medicine.
  • universal chuck — a chuck, as on a lathe headstock, having three stepped jaws moving simultaneously for precise centering of a workpiece of any of a wide range of sizes.
  • unphilosophical — not adhering to philosophical theory or principles
  • unsophisticated — not sophisticated; simple; artless.
  • unteachableness — the quality or condition of being unteachable
  • virtual machine — Also called system virtual machine. a self-contained operating environment that behaves as if it is a separate computer, with no access to the host operating system: When an application runs in a virtual machine, there is little chance that it will damage files or applications in the host system.
  • welsbach burner — a type of gaslight in which a mantle containing thorium and cerium compounds becomes incandescent when heated by a gas flame
  • wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
  • wreathed column — a column having a twisted or spiral form.
  • yucatán channel — a channel between W Cuba and the Yucatán peninsula
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