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

  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • discount house — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
  • duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
  • dutch colonial — of or relating to the domestic architecture of Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey, often characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves over porches on the long sides.
  • dutch medicine — patent medicine, esp made of herbs
  • dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • eastern church — any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
  • enthusiastical — (obsolete) enthusiastic.
  • eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
  • exchequer bond — a type of short-term government bond
  • focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
  • free churchman — (sometimes initial capital letters) a member of a free church.
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • french cruller — cruller (def 2).
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • french-cruller — a rich, light cake cut from a rolled dough and deep-fried, usually having a twisted oblong shape and sometimes topped with sugar or icing.
  • function shift — a change in the syntactic function of a word, as when the noun mushroom is used as an intransitive verb
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
  • get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
  • gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
  • greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
  • ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
  • gum tragacanth — tragacanth.
  • gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
  • half-conscious — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
  • hallucinations — Plural form of hallucination.
  • hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
  • harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
  • haven't a clue — If you haven't a clue about something, you do not know anything about it or you have no idea what to do about it.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
  • hellaciousness — Quality of being hellacious.
  • herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
  • hermeneuticist — One who studies hermeneutics.
  • heterochronous — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
  • high frequency — the range of frequencies in the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 megahertz.
  • hindu calendar — a lunisolar calendar that governs all Hindu and most Indian festivals, known from about 1000 b.c. and subsequently modified during the 4th and 6th centuries a.d.
  • holy communion — communion (def 1).
  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
  • honours course — a degree course at honours level
  • hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
  • horse chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
  • horse-chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
  • house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • housing scheme — arrangement offering subsidized housing
  • huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
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