12-letter words containing c, h, u, n
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- on the couch — undergoing psychoanalysis
- ortho-cousin — parallel cousin.
- orthocousins — the children of two brothers or two sisters
- out to lunch — a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
- outpouchings — Plural form of outpouching.
- pack a punch — be powerful
- packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- pentateuchal — the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
- perionychium — the epidermis surrounding the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
- phi-function — Euler's phi-function.
- photocurrent — an electric current produced by a photoelectric effect.
- photoinduced — induced by light.
- photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
- picnic lunch — a meal that you take and eat outdoors
- picturephone — a type of telephone where users can see each other as they talk, through the transmission of video images
- pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
- pinch runner — a player sent into a game to replace a base runner.
- pinturicchio — real name Bernardino di Betto. ?1454–1513, Italian painter of the Umbrian school
- posing pouch — a thong that emphasizes the genitals
- press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
- punched card — a card having holes punched in specific positions and patterns so as to represent data to be stored or processed mechanically, electrically, or photoelectrically.
- punched tape — Computers. paper tape.
- punching bag — an inflated or stuffed bag, usually suspended, punched with the fists as an exercise.
- purple finch — a North American finch, Carpodacus purpureus, having a raspberry-red head, breast, and rump.
- quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
- quadraphonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
- quadriphonic — quadraphonic.
- quadrophonic — Alternative spelling of quadraphonic.
- quenchlessly — without quenching
- rabbit punch — a short, sharp blow to the nape of the neck or the lower part of the skull.
- rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
- return match — sport: second game between same teams
- rockhounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks
- schaffhausen — a canton in N Switzerland. 100 sq. mi. (259 sq. km).
- schizogenous — schizogenetic.
- schizogonous — pertaining to or reproducing by schizogony.
- school lunch — School lunches are midday meals provided for children at a school.
- schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
- schuman plan — the plan for establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, proposed by Robert Schuman, French political leader, in 1950.
- short column — a column whose relative dimensions ensure that when it is overloaded it fails by crushing, rather than buckling
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
- snatch squad — a squad of soldiers or police trained to deal with demonstrations by picking out and arresting the alleged ringleaders
- sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- speech sound — any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Compare phoneme.