18-letter words containing c, h, u, n
- sulfuric anhydride — sulfur trioxide.
- survival mechanism — something you or your body does automatically, in order to survive in a dangerous or unpleasant situation
- teacher evaluation — the process of vetting teachers to maintain teaching standards
- teaching equipment — teaching aids
- technical knockout — the termination of a bout by the referee when it is the judgment of the attending physician, a boxer's seconds, or the referee that a boxer cannot continue fighting without sustaining severe or disabling injury. Abbreviation: TKO, T.K.O.
- the black mountain — a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
- the general public — the people in a society; people in general
- the hunger marches — a number of processions by unemployed workers in the 1930s to protest against unemployment and deprivation
- the south atlantic — the part of the Atlantic Ocean that lies to the south of the equator
- the uncircumcision — the gentiles
- thermionic current — an electric current produced by the flow of thermions.
- thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
- thermonuclear bomb — hydrogen bomb.
- thioarsenious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3AsS3, HAsS2, and H4As2S5, known only in the forms of their salts
- to come unstitched — to go wrong or awry
- touch-in-goal line — either of the two touchlines at each end of the field between the goal line and the dead-ball line.
- under the jackboot — If a country or group of people is under the jackboot, they are suffering because the government is cruel and undemocratic.
- unenthusiastically — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
- unification church — a religious sect that combines elements of Protestantism and Buddhism, founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon in 1954: many of its members live in communes sponsored by the sect.
- vulcan nerve pinch — (jargon) (Or "three-finger salute", Vulcan death grip; from the old "Star Trek" TV series via Commodore Amiga hackers) The keyboard combination that forces a soft boot or jump to ROM monitor (on machines that support such a feature). On an Amiga this is done with Ctrl/Right Amiga/Left Amiga; on IBM PCs and many microcomputers it is Ctrl/Alt/Del; on Suns, L1-A; on some Macintoshes, it is
- ! Silicon Graphics users are obviously the most dextrous however, as these machines use the five-finger combination: Left Shift/Left Ctrl/Left Alt/Keypad Divide/F12. Compare quadruple bucky. - wheelchair housing — housing designed or adapted for a chairbound person
- widemouth blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
- yellow honeysuckle — a spreading, twining vine, Lonicera flava, of the southern and eastern U.S., having fragrant, tubular, orange-yellow flowers.