0%

12-letter words containing c, h, o, u

  • schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • schussboomer — a skier who is skilled at schussing.
  • scrophularia — a member of a genus of flowering plants which have a square stem and are known as figworts
  • short column — a column whose relative dimensions ensure that when it is overloaded it fails by crushing, rather than buckling
  • shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
  • sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
  • skeuomorphic — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
  • smooth sumac — a shrub or small tree, Rhus glabra, of the cashew family, native to North America, having pinnate leaves and green flowers in a dense terminal cluster.
  • sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
  • soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
  • south africa — Republic of, a country in S Africa; member of the Commonwealth of Nations until 1961. 472,000 sq. mi. (1,222,480 sq. km). Capitals: Pretoria and Cape Town.
  • south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • south-facing — facing towards the south
  • speech sound — any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Compare phoneme.
  • squash court — an enclosed court used in the game of squash
  • stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
  • stomach pump — a suction pump for removing the contents of the stomach, used especially in cases of poisoning.
  • studio couch — an upholstered couch, usually without a back, convertible into a double bed by sliding a bed frame out from beneath it and covering the frame with the mattress that forms the upper thickness of the upholstery.
  • subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
  • synchro unit — a type of alternating-current motor designed to maintain continuously, at some remote location, the same rotational angle that may be imposed by force upon the electrically connected rotating element of a similar motor.
  • tech support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
  • technicolour — brightly, showily, or garishly coloured; vividly noticeable
  • technojunkie — a person addicted to or obsessed by new technology
  • the conquest — the conquest by the United Kingdom of French North America, ending in 1763
  • theoclymenus — (in the Odyssey) a seer who foretold the return of Odysseus and the death of Penelope's suitors.
  • thermocouple — a device that consists of the junction of two dissimilar metallic conductors, as copper and iron, in which an electromotive force is induced when the conductors are maintained at different temperatures, the force being related to the temperature difference: used to determine the temperature of a third substance by connecting it to the junction of the metals and measuring the electromotive force produced.
  • thiobacillus — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Thiobacillus, inhabiting soil, sewage, etc., that derive energy from oxidation of sulfur or sulfur compounds.
  • thiosulfuric — of or derived from thiosulfuric acid.
  • thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
  • three-colour — of, relating to, or comprising a colour print or a photomechanical process in which a picture is reproduced by superimposing three prints from half-tone plates in inks corresponding to the three primary colours
  • thundercloud — cumulonimbus.
  • touch and go — precarious situation
  • touch bottom — to run aground
  • touch ground — (of a ship) to strike the sea bed
  • touch screen — a touch-sensitive display screen on a computer or other electronic device: touching different portions of the screen with a finger or stylus will cause the device to take actions determined by a computer program.
  • touch system — a system of typing in which each finger is assigned to one or more keys, thereby enabling a person to type without looking at the keyboard.
  • touch-and-go — risky; precarious: a touch-and-go descent down the mountain.
  • touch-me-not — any of several plants belonging to the genus Impatiens, of the balsam family, especially I. noli-tangere, bearing pods that, when ripe, burst on being touched, scattering the seeds.
  • touch-screen — using touch-sensitive screen
  • touch-tackle — touch football.
  • touch-typing — the act of typing without having to look at the keys of the typewriter or computer keyboard
  • touchability — to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it: He touched the iron cautiously.
  • touchy-feely — Informal. emphasizing or marked by emotional openness and enthusiastic physicality: a touchy-feely encounter group.
  • tough cookie — If you say that someone is a tough cookie, you mean that they have a strong and determined character.
  • trachomatous — a chronic, contagious infection of the conjunctiva and cornea, characterized by the formation of granulations and scarring and caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis.
  • trench mouth — Vincent's angina.
  • tricephalous — with three heads
  • trichotomous — division into three parts, classes, categories, etc.
  • turbo-charge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
  • turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?