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

  • 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.
  • port harcourt — a seaport in S Nigeria.
  • postholocaust — following a holocaust
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
  • psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
  • psychosurgery — treatment of mental disorders by means of brain surgery.
  • 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.
  • quelque chose — a trifle
  • quelque-chose — kickshaw.
  • queue fourche — (of a lion) having a single tail divided in two partway along its length so as to have two complete ends.
  • quiller-couch — Sir Arthur Thomas ("Q") 1863–1944, English novelist and critic.
  • rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • rhesus factor — Rh factor.
  • rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
  • rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
  • rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
  • round-cheeked — having plump cheeks
  • schizaeaceous — relating to a type of extinct fern
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
  • scotch crocus — a garden plant, Crocus biflorus, of southeastern Europe and Turkey, having purple-striped, yellow-throated flowers.
  • scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
  • share account — a savings account in a credit union.
  • she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
  • sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • short account — the account of a short seller.
  • short subject — a short film, as a documentary or travelogue, shown as part of a program with a feature-length film.
  • short-circuit — Electricity. to make (an appliance, switch, etc.) inoperable by establishing a short circuit in. to carry (a current) as a short circuit.
  • smooth muscle — involuntary muscle tissue in the walls of viscera and blood vessels, consisting of nonstriated, spindle-shaped cells.
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • stomach upset — a slight illness affecting your stomach and/or bowels characterized by nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea
  • successorship — the position or state of a successor
  • suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
  • sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
  • summer school — study programs offered by a school, college, or university during the summer to those who wish to obtain their degrees more quickly, who must make up credits, or who wish to supplement their education.
  • sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
  • synchronously — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
  • tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
  • tautochronous — having the character of a tautochrone
  • terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
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