15-letter words containing c, h, u, n
- chicken nuggets — small pieces of chicken fried in batter
- child abduction — the crime of removing a child from its rightful home
- children's hour — a play (1934) by Lillian Hellman.
- chinese juniper — a shrub or tree, Juniperus chinensis, of China, Mongolia, and Japan, having scalelike leaves and small, round, purplish-brown fruit.
- chinese lacquer — lacquer (def 2).
- chinese mustard — brown mustard.
- chintz curtains — curtains made of chintz
- chitlin circuit — a group of clubs and theaters featuring black performers and intended to appeal to black people.
- church calendar — ecclesiastical calendar (def 2).
- church militant — those Christians on earth who are engaged in a continuous war against evil and the enemies of Christ.
- church slavonic — Old Church Slavonic, esp as preserved in the liturgical use of the Orthodox church
- church-calendar — a calendar based on the lunisolar cycle, used by many Christian churches in determining the dates for the movable feasts.
- collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
- common shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
- communion cloth — corporal3 .
- communist china — China, People's Republic of.
- community chest — a fund raised by voluntary contribution for local welfare activities
- connoisseurship — a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, particularly one of the fine arts, or in matters of taste: a connoisseur of modern art.
- consumer choice — the range of competing products and services from which a consumer can choose
- contour feather — any of the feathers that cover the body of an adult bird, apart from the wings and tail, and determine its shape
- copenhagen blue — a greyish-blue colour
- council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
- council housing — houses or flats built or owned by a local council
- countercathexis — (psychology) The suppression or repression of mental energy.
- countercharging — Present participle of countercharge.
- countercharming — Present participle of countercharm.
- counterchecking — Present participle of countercheck.
- counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
- countermarching — Present participle of countermarch.
- counterpunching — Present participle of counterpunch.
- counterpurchase — barter, especially of products or materials between international companies or importers and exporters.
- counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
- country kitchen — a large kitchen with ample areas for food preparation and eating.
- court christian — ecclesiastical court.
- court of honour — a military court that is instituted to investigate matters involving personal honour
- credit-crunched — adversely affected by a credit crunch
- cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
- crunchy granola — crisp; brittle.
- crunchy-granola — characterized by or defining oneself by ecological awareness, liberal political views, and support or use of natural products and health foods.
- crush-resistant — not being easily creased
- curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
- curtain shutter — a focal-plane shutter consisting of a curtain on two rollers, moved at a constant speed past the lens opening so as to expose the film to one of several slots in the curtain, the width of which determines the length of exposure.
- cushion capital — a capital, used in Byzantine, Romanesque, and Norman architecture, in the form of a bowl with a square top
- deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
- deus ex machina — (in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the plot
- dichotomousness — the quality of being dichotomous
- dithionous acid — an unstable dibasic acid known only in solution and in the form of dithionite salts. It is a powerful reducing agent. Formula: H2S2O4
- drying-up cloth — a tea towel
- durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
- dutchman's-pipe — a climbing vine, Aristolochia durior, of the birthwort family, having large, heart-shaped leaves and brownish-purple flowers of a curved form suggesting a tobacco pipe.