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11-letter words containing c, h, u, n

  • phlyctenule — a small phlyctena
  • plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
  • power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
  • preluncheon — a light meal before lunch
  • puckishness — the state of being puckish
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • punch press — a power-driven machine used to cut, draw, or otherwise shape material, especially metal sheets, with dies, under pressure or by heavy blows.
  • punch spoon — a spoon having a pierced bowl and a barbed end for removing fruit, ice, etc., from punch.
  • punch-drunk — (especially of a boxer) having cerebral concussion caused by repeated blows to the head and consequently exhibiting unsteadiness of gait, hand tremors, slow muscular movement, hesitant speech, and dulled mentality.
  • punchinello — a grotesque or absurd chief character in a puppet show of Italian origin: the prototype of Punch.
  • quechumaran — a proposed language stock comprising Quechua and Aymara
  • ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
  • ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
  • relaunching — an act or instance of launching something again.
  • rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
  • roman punch — a lemon-water ice flavored with rum or other alcoholic beverage.
  • roundarched — having semicircular arches
  • rush candle — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
  • saurischian — any herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur of the order Saurischia, having a three-pronged pelvis resembling that of a crocodile. Compare ornithischian.
  • schizanthus — any of several plants of the genus Schizanthus, native to Chile, having numerous variously colored flowers resembling small orchids.
  • school fund — the money provided by a government or raised by parents and teachers to finance the running of a school
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • schuschnigg — Kurt von [kurt von;; German koort fuh n] /kɜrt vɒn;; German kurt fən/ (Show IPA) (1897–1977), Austrian statesman in the U.S.: Chancellor of Austria 1934–38.
  • schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
  • soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
  • sound check — an on-the-spot rehearsal by a band before a gig to enable the sound engineer to set up the mixer
  • square inch — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one inch on each side; 6.452 square centimeters. 2 , sq. in. Abbreviation: in.
  • staunchless — not able to be stanched
  • staunchness — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
  • stockhausen — Karlheinz [kahrl-hahynts] /ˈkɑrlˌhaɪnts/ (Show IPA), 1928–2007, German composer.
  • stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
  • sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
  • subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
  • suckerpunch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
  • súgán chair — a chair with a seat made from woven súgáns
  • synchronous — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
  • tautochrone — a curve upon which a moving object will reach a certain point at the same time through gravity from whichever point it starts
  • tautophonic — having or repeating the same sound
  • tehuantepec — Isthmus of, an isthmus in S Mexico, between the Gulf of Tehuantepec and the Gulf of Campeche. 125 miles (200 km) wide at its narrowest point.
  • teotihuacan — the ruins of an ancient Mesoamerican city in central Mexico, near Mexico City, that flourished a.d. c200–c750 and is the site of the pyramids of the Sun and Moon and of many temples, palaces, and dwellings.
  • the centaur — the constellation Centaurus
  • the commune — the revolutionary government of Paris from 1792 to 1794
  • the council — the local governing authority of a town, county, etc
  • the country — the outlying area or area furthest from the finish of a sports ground or racecourse
  • the curtain — the end of a scene of a play, opera, etc, marked by the fall or closing of the curtain
  • thunderclap — a crash of thunder.
  • touchscreen — a touch-sensitive display screen on a computer or other electronic device: touching different portions of the screen with a finger or stylus will cause the device to take actions determined by a computer program.
  • truncheoned — the club carried by a police officer; billy.
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