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16-letter words containing c, h, u, r, o

  • cornhusker state — Nebraska (used as a nickname).
  • coronary cushion — a thick band of vascular tissue in the coronet of horses and other hoofed animals that secretes the horny wall of the hoof.
  • counter-checking — a check that opposes or restrains.
  • counterchallenge — A challenge made in response to another challenge.
  • cross-cut chisel — a chisel used for making grooves
  • cupric hydroxide — a blue, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, Cu(OH) 2 , used in the manufacture of rayon, as a source for copper salts, and as a mordant.
  • cut one's throat — to bring about one's own ruin
  • cut-throat razor — a razor with a long blade that usually folds into the handle
  • cystourethrocele — A urethrocele occurring with a cystocele.
  • cytoarchitecture — (biology) The arrangement of cells in an organism or organ.
  • drogue parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
  • electrohydraulic — Relating to electrohydraulics.
  • episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
  • farmhouse cheese — cheese that is made by traditional methods, on or as if on a farm
  • figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
  • finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
  • fish or cut bait — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
  • follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
  • forbush decrease — the sudden decrease in the intensity of cosmic rays after an increase in solar activity.
  • frankfurt school — a school of thought, founded at the University of Frankfurt in 1923 by Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and others, derived from Marxist, Freudian, and Hegelian theory
  • french community — a cultural and economic association of France, its overseas departments and territories, and former French territories that chose to maintain association after becoming independent republics: formed 1958.
  • garlic mushrooms — mushrooms, often pan-fried, cooked with garlic
  • geoffrey chaucer — Geoffrey, 1340?–1400, English poet.
  • golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
  • greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
  • growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
  • gyratory crusher — A gyratory crusher is a crusher in which a cone-shaped rod rotates in a cone-shaped bowl.
  • heliotherapeutic — Pertaining to heliotherapy.
  • hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
  • hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
  • heteromultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more different polypeptide chains.
  • high court judge — a judge who sits in the High Court
  • higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
  • homeric laughter — loud, hearty laughter, as of the gods.
  • horticulturalist — Misspelling of horticulturist.
  • household chores — tasks such as cleaning, washing, and ironing that have to be done regularly at home
  • huevos rancheros — a Latin American dish of eggs, usually fried or poached, topped with a spicy tomato sauce and sometimes served on a fried corn tortilla with the addition of vegetables and cheese.
  • humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
  • hurricane season — annual cyclone period
  • hydrophyllaceous — belonging to the Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family of plants.
  • hyperaccumulator — a plant that absorbs toxins, such as heavy metals, to a greater concentration than that in the soil in which it is growing
  • hyperconjugation — (organic chemistry) A weak form of conjugation in which single bonds interact with a conjugated system.
  • hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
  • ichthyophthirius — ich.
  • import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
  • in the course of — If something happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time.
  • judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • jude the obscure — a novel (1895) by Thomas Hardy.
  • kurdaitcha shoes — (in certain Central Australian Aboriginal tribes) the emu-feather shoes worn by the kurdaitcha on his mission so that his footsteps may not be traced
  • la rochefoucauld — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 6th Duc de, 1613–80, French moralist and composer of epigrams and maxims.
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