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

  • dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
  • dichotomously — divided or dividing into two parts.
  • dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
  • double-clutch — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • dual monarchy — the kingdom of Austria-Hungary 1867–1918.
  • duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
  • dutch auction — a method of auction consisting in the offer of a property at a price above the actual value and then at gradually reduced prices until a buyer is found.
  • dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
  • echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
  • echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
  • 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.
  • floor cushion — a cushion placed on the floor of a room for people to sit on
  • fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
  • fluorographic — of or pertaining to fluorography
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • fork luncheon — déjeuner à la fourchette.
  • fort huachuca — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in SE Arizona, SE of Tucson.
  • 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.
  • gulf of kutch — an inlet of the Arabian Sea in India. Length: about 159 kilometres (99 miles)
  • 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.
  • hacking cough — a harsh, dry and spasmodic cough
  • hail columbia — hell (used as a euphemism): He caught Hail Columbia for coming home late.
  • half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
  • hallucination — a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
  • hallucinatory — pertaining to or characterized by hallucination: hallucinatory visions.
  • hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
  • halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
  • haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
  • hash function — (programming)   A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
  • haute couture — high fashion; the most fashionable and influential dressmaking and designing.
  • hemicellulose — any of a group of gummy polysaccharides, intermediate in complexity between sugar and cellulose, that hydrolyze to monosaccharides more readily than cellulose.
  • 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
  • hexadactylous — hexadactylic
  • 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.
  • home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
  • homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
  • honoris causa — for the sake of honour
  • 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.
  • honour school — (at Oxford University) one of the courses of study leading to an honours degree
  • horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
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