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13-letter words containing c, h, e, s, u, n

  • euphausiacean — a member of the Euphausiacea order of small shrimplike crustaceans
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
  • gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
  • haute cuisine — fine or gourmet cooking; food preparation as an art.
  • home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
  • honors course — a course in a university or college consisting largely of independent research terminating in a dissertation or a comprehensive examination, and earning for the student who passes it a degree with distinction.
  • horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
  • house counsel — a lawyer drawing a full-time salary from a corporation that he or she represents.
  • housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • immunochemist — A chemist whose speciality is immunochemistry.
  • in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
  • kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
  • lecherousness — The property of being lecherous.
  • leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
  • luncheonettes — Plural form of luncheonette.
  • melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
  • melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
  • nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
  • non-scheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
  • nymphaeaceous — belonging to the Nymphaeaceae, the water lily family of plants.
  • ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
  • octagon house — a type of American house, c. 1850, having an octagonal perimeter to reduce exterior wall area.
  • outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
  • pencil-pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
  • pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
  • 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.
  • psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
  • queen's bench — a court, originally the principal court for criminal cases, gradually acquiring a civil jurisdiction concurrent with that of the Court of Common Pleas, and also possessing appellate jurisdiction over the Court of Common Pleas: now a division of the High Court of Justice.
  • rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
  • scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
  • schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
  • 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.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • speechfulness — the state of being full of speech or expression
  • 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.
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • superencipher — to encode (a message) that is already a cryptogram.
  • the conscious — that part of one's mental activity of which one is fully aware at any given time
  • the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
  • thunderstruck — overcome with consternation; confounded; astounded: He was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion.
  • unchastisable — not deserving to be chastised; beyond reproach
  • under hatches — below decks
  • unethicalness — lacking moral principles; unwilling to adhere to proper rules of conduct.
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