11-letter words containing c, h, u, n
- judge lynch — the personification of lynch law.
- k'ung ch'iu — (K'ung Ch'iu) 551? b.c.–478? b.c, Chinese philosopher and teacher.
- kanchipuram — a city in SE India, in Tamil Nadu: a sacred Hindu town known as "the Benares of the South"; textile industries. Pop: 152 984 (2001)
- knucklehead — a stupid, bumbling, inept person.
- krasny luch — a city in SE Ukraine, E of Donetsk.
- launch into — begin enthusiastically
- launch shoe — an attachment to an aircraft from which a missile is launched
- leprechauns — a dwarf or sprite.
- leuconychia — White discoloration appearing on nails. Also known as white nails.
- leukonychia — Alt form leuconychia.
- luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
- lüdenscheid — a city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia: manufacturing centre for aluminium and plastics. Pop: 79 829 (2003 est)
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- lunch-hooks — Usually, lunchhooks. hands.
- mach number — a number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the medium through which the object is moving. Abbreviation: M.
- machine gun — automatic firearm
- machine-gun — to shoot at with a machine gun.
- machineguns — Plural form of machinegun.
- main gauche — a dagger of the 16th and 17th centuries, held in the left hand in dueling and used to parry the sword of an opponent.
- menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
- monchiquite — a type of rock made up of large crystals of, among other constituents, olivine and amphibole and which is found in an analcite groundmass
- monochasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which the main axis produces only a single branch.
- multiethnic — involving or pertaining to two or more distinct ethnic groups.
- munchhausen — Karl Friedrich Hieronymus [kahrl free-drikh hee-ey-roh-ny-moo s] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx ˌhi eɪˈroʊ nüˌmʊs/ (Show IPA), Baron von [fuh n] /fən/ (Show IPA), 1720–97, German soldier, adventurer, and teller of tales.
- munich pact — the pact signed by Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany on September 29, 1938, by which the Sudetenland was ceded to Germany: often cited as an instance of unwise and unprincipled appeasement of an aggressive nation.
- mutton chop — cutlet of sheep's meat
- muttonchops — The whiskers on a man's cheek when shaped like a meat chop, narrow at the top and broad and rounded at the bottom.
- naked lunch — a novel (1959–66) by William S. Burroughs.
- nemathecium — a wartlike protuberance on the thallus of certain red algae, containing tetraspores, antheridia, or cystocarps.
- neural arch — a bony or cartilaginous arch resting on the chief part of each vertebra and forming a tunnel through which the nerve cord passes
- neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
- neuropathic — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
- night court — a criminal court that convenes at night for the quick disposition of charges and the granting of bail.
- not much of — not to any appreciable degree or extent
- not so much — less
- nucleophile — of or relating to electron contribution in covalent bonding (opposed to electrophilic).
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- nun's cloth — a thin soft plain-weave silk or worsted fabric used for veils, dresses, etc
- nyctanthous — (of plants) flowering at night
- on schedule — with no delay
- on the club — away from work due to sickness, esp when receiving sickness benefit
- on the cuff — a fold or band serving as a trimming or finish for the bottom of a sleeve.
- on the cusp — If you say that someone or something is on the cusp, you mean they are between two states, or are about to be in a particular state.
- open cheque — an uncrossed cheque that can be cashed at the drawee bank
- outmatching — Present participle of outmatch.
- outpouching — (pathology) evagination.
- outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
- oxyrhynchus — a fish found in the Nile, sometimes depicted on Egyptian sculptures and coins
- pan crusher — A pan crusher is a crusher in which solids are broken by a wheel which is turning in a pan.
- parachuting — descent using parachute