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11-letter words containing c, h, i, u, s

  • mustachioed — a mustache.
  • neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
  • nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
  • parachutist — sb who makes parachute jumps
  • pasticheuse — a woman who makes or composes a pastiche.
  • perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
  • polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
  • puckishness — the state of being puckish
  • quitchgrass — Elymus repens.
  • rough music — (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
  • saurischian — any herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur of the order Saurischia, having a three-pronged pelvis resembling that of a crocodile. Compare ornithischian.
  • schizanthus — any of several plants of the genus Schizanthus, native to Chile, having numerous variously colored flowers resembling small orchids.
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • schuschniggKurt von [kurt von;; German koort fuh n] /kɜrt vɒn;; German kurt fən/ (Show IPA) (1897–1977), Austrian statesman in the U.S.: Chancellor of Austria 1934–38.
  • schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
  • sheet music — music printed on unbound sheets of paper.
  • square inch — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one inch on each side; 6.452 square centimeters. 2 , sq. in. Abbreviation: in.
  • squirearchy — the collective body of squires or landed gentry of a country.
  • sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
  • subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
  • subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
  • subjectship — the state of being a subject or citizen
  • súgán chair — a chair with a seat made from woven súgáns
  • supercherie — deception, trickery or an instance thereof
  • superheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
  • switch plug — a plug, as for an electric iron, equipped with an on-off switch.
  • theme music — music played at the beginning and end of a programme or film
  • tristichous — arranged in three rows.
  • turishcheva — Ludmilla (lʊdˈmɪlə). born 1952, Soviet gymnast: world champion 1970, 1972 (at the Olympic Games), and 1974
  • ulotrichous — belonging to a group of people having woolly or crisply curly hair.
  • unaesthetic — offensive to the aesthetic sense; lacking in beauty or sensory appeal; unpleasant, as an object, design, arrangement, etc.: an unaesthetic combination of colors.
  • unchastised — not chastised or reprimanded
  • uncherished — to hold or treat as dear; feel love for: to cherish one's native land.
  • unchristian — not conforming to Christian teaching or principles: unchristian selfishness.
  • white sauce — a sauce made of butter, flour, seasonings, and milk or sometimes chicken or veal stock; béchamel.
  • youskevitch — Igor [ee-gawr] /ˈi gɔr/ (Show IPA), 1912–94, U.S. ballet dancer, born in Russia.
  • zauschneria — Epilobium canum, a North American willowherb.
  • zwischenzug — a tactical move interpolated into an exchange or series of exchanges to improve the outcome
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