13-letter words containing c, h, o, u
- luncheon club — (in Britain) an arrangement or organization for serving hot midday meals for a small charge to old people in clubs or daycentres
- luncheon meat — any of various sausages or molded loaf meats, usually sliced and served cold, as in sandwiches or as garnishes for salads.
- luncheonettes — Plural form of luncheonette.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
- mango chutney — chutney which contains or is made from the fruit mango
- mare chronium — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
- melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
- mercurochrome — Merbromin.
- mesocephalous — Alternative form of mesocephalic.
- microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
- microphyllous — having microphylls
- mischievously — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- mother church — a church from which other churches have had their origin or derived their authority.
- motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- moustache cup — mustache cup.
- muscle shoals — former rapids of the Tennessee River in SW Alabama, changed into a lake by Wilson Dam: part of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- mycetophagous — That feeds on fungi.
- neurochemical — of or relating to neurochemistry.
- niche product — sth of specific or limited consumer interest
- no such thing — You can say there is no such thing as something to emphasize that it does not exist or is not possible.
- non-rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- non-scheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
- nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
- nonchurchgoer — a person who does not attend church or who attends sporadically
- north country — the part of England north of the Humber estuary.
- not much chop — not much good; poor
- not much of a — If you describe something as not much of a particular type of thing, you mean that it is small or of poor quality.
- nouveau riche — a person who is newly rich: the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.
- nut chocolate — chocolate containing nuts
- nymphaeaceous — belonging to the Nymphaeaceae, the water lily family of plants.
- 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.
- octagon house — a type of American house, c. 1850, having an octagonal perimeter to reduce exterior wall area.
- on the bounce — in succession; one after the other
- one-punch law — a law prescribing punitive sentences for assault, including assault comprising a single blow
- one-two punch — Also called one-two punch. Boxing. a left-hand jab immediately followed by a right cross.
- outreach work — work (done by welfare workers, volunteers, etc) designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
- outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
- perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
- photoacoustic — optoacoustic
- phyllocladous — having phylloclades.
- physoclistous — having the air bladder closed off from the mouth.
- picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs
- plymouth rock — a rock at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on which the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have stepped ashore when they landed in America in 1620.
- 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
- polychotomous — divided into multiple parts