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

  • court hearing — an official meeting held in court
  • creosote bush — a shrub, Larrea (or Covillea) tridentata of the western US and Mexico, that has resinous leaves with an odour resembling creosote, and can live for many thousands of years: family Zygophyllaceae
  • croquembouche — a French dessert consisting of a cone-shaped mound of small cream puffs glazed with caramelized sugar
  • cuckoo shrike — any Old World tropical songbird of the family Campephagidae, typically having a strong notched bill, long rounded tail, and pointed wings
  • cuckoo-shrike — any of numerous Old World passerine birds of the family Campephagidae, certain species of which superficially resemble cuckoos and have hooked bills like shrikes.
  • culture shock — Culture shock is a feeling of anxiety, loneliness, and confusion that people sometimes experience when they first arrive in another country.
  • cushion cover — a fabric cover, often with a decorative design, designed to protect a cushion
  • cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
  • cycle drought — A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory. There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
  • dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
  • electrophorus — A device for repeatedly generating static electricity by induction.
  • ethnocultural — Relating to or denoting a particular ethnic group.
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • ferrochromium — a ferroalloy containing up to 70 percent chromium.
  • fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • fork luncheon — déjeuner à la fourchette.
  • glucochlorose — chloralose.
  • ground cherry — Also called husk tomato. any of several plants belonging to the genus Physalis, of the nightshade family, the several species bearing an edible berry enclosed in an enlarged calyx.
  • habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
  • hacker humour — A distinctive style of shared intellectual humour found among hackers, having the following marked characteristics: 1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humour having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta). One way to make a hacker laugh: hold a red index card in front of him/her with "GREEN" written on it, or vice-versa (note, however, that this is funny only the first time). 2. Elaborate deadpan parodies of large intellectual constructs, such as specifications (see write-only memory), standards documents, language descriptions (see INTERCAL), and even entire scientific theories (see quantum bogodynamics, computron). 3. Jokes that involve screwily precise reasoning from bizarre, ludicrous, or just grossly counter-intuitive premises. 4. Fascination with puns and wordplay. 5. A fondness for apparently mindless humour with subversive currents of intelligence in it - for example, old Warner Brothers and Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Humour that combines this trait with elements of high camp and slapstick is especially favoured. 6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, ha ha only serious, AI koan. See also filk and retrocomputing. If you have an itchy feeling that all 6 of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom.
  • halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
  • haute couture — high fashion; the most fashionable and influential dressmaking and designing.
  • here document — (operating system)   Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
  • heterocarpous — (of a plant) producing more than one type of fruit
  • heteroclitous — heteroclite
  • heterocystous — containing or relating to heterocysts
  • high-coloured — (of the complexion) deep red or purplish; florid
  • holosericeous — covered with short, silky hairs.
  • home computer — a personal computer used in the home.
  • homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
  • 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.
  • host computer — the main computer in a network: controls or performs certain functions for other computers.
  • house cricket — a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.
  • house officer — a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital
  • hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
  • hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
  • hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
  • hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
  • hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
  • hyperproducer — an increased or rapid producer
  • hyracotherium — eohippus.
  • inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
  • lecherousness — The property of being lecherous.
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
  • lunch counter — a counter, as in a store or restaurant, where light meals and snacks are served or are sold to be taken out.
  • macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
  • mare chronium — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
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