13-letter words containing c, h, u, a, n, o
- 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.
- honoris causa — for the sake of honour
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- human cloning — the act of producing a human as a clone
- human ecology — ecology (def 4).
- ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
- johnny canuck — a personification of Canada
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- launch window — a precise time period during which a spacecraft can be launched from a particular site in order to achieve a desired mission, as a rendezvous with another spacecraft.
- low churchman — a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.
- luncheon meat — any of various sausages or molded loaf meats, usually sliced and served cold, as in sandwiches or as garnishes for salads.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- 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
- neurochemical — of or relating to neurochemistry.
- non-rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
- 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.
- one-punch law — a law prescribing punitive sentences for assault, including assault comprising a single blow
- 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
- 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
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- 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)
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- share account — a savings account in a credit union.
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- short account — the account of a short seller.
- south african — of southern Africa.
- southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
- tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
- tautochronous — having the character of a tautochrone
- the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
- thermonuclear — relating to nuclear fusion
- throw a punch — try to hit sb
- thurification — the act of incense-burning
- toque blanche — the tall white hat traditionally worn by a chef
- touch a nerve — to mention or bring to mind a sensitive issue or subject
- touch-in-goal — the area at each end of the field outside of a touch-in-goal line.