13-letter words containing c, h, i, u, s
- house officer — a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
- hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
- huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
- hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- hyposulphuric — relating to sulphur which is in a lower state of oxidation than it is in sulphuric compounds
- ichthyosaurus — ichthyosaur.
- 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.
- insulin shock — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
- isochronously — In an isochronous manner.
- john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
- junior school — a school for children aged seven to eleven, similar to a U.S. elementary school.
- kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
- light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
- lissotrichous — having straight hair.
- lophotrichous — (biology, of bacteria) Having multiple flagella located at the same point, so that they can act in concert to drive the bacterium in a single direction.
- melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
- metaheuristic — An experimental heuristic method for solving a general class of computational problems by combining user procedures in the hope of obtaining a more efficient or robust procedure.
- microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
- microphyllous — having microphylls
- mischievously — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- multitheistic — Of or relating to multitheism.
- music theatre — a modern musical-dramatic work that is performed on a smaller scale than, and without the conventions of, traditional opera
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- 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).
- no such thing — You can say there is no such thing as something to emphasize that it does not exist or is not possible.
- nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
- 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.
- outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- parish church — local place of worship
- 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
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- photoacoustic — optoacoustic
- physoclistous — having the air bladder closed off from the mouth.
- 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.
- poison sumach — an anacardiaceous swamp shrub, Rhus (or Toxicodendron) vernix of the southeastern US, that has greenish-white berries and causes an itching rash on contact with the skin
- 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.
- pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- public school — (in the U.S.) a school that is maintained at public expense for the education of the children of a community or district and that constitutes a part of a system of free public education commonly including primary and secondary schools.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.