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13-letter words containing c, h, e, r, u

  • 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.
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • 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
  • pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
  • psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
  • psychosurgery — treatment of mental disorders by means of brain surgery.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • queue fourche — (of a lion) having a single tail divided in two partway along its length so as to have two complete ends.
  • quiller-couch — Sir Arthur Thomas ("Q") 1863–1944, English novelist and critic.
  • rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • rhesus factor — Rh factor.
  • rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
  • rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
  • round-cheeked — having plump cheeks
  • rubber cheque — a cheque that bounces
  • rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
  • ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
  • schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • share account — a savings account in a credit union.
  • she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
  • sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • short subject — a short film, as a documentary or travelogue, shown as part of a program with a feature-length film.
  • south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • squash racket — a light long-handled racket used in the game of squash
  • street urchin — a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • successorship — the position or state of a successor
  • summer school — study programs offered by a school, college, or university during the summer to those who wish to obtain their degrees more quickly, who must make up credits, or who wish to supplement their education.
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
  • superencipher — to encode (a message) that is already a cryptogram.
  • supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
  • superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
  • superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
  • surbased arch — drop arch (def 2).
  • surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
  • terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • the ryder cup — the trophy awarded in a professional golfing competition between teams representing Europe and the US
  • the superrich — exceptionally wealthy people, considered collectively
  • therapeutical — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
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