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

  • galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • hammer crusher — A hammer crusher is a crusher in which a hammer hits the material that is being crushed.
  • 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.
  • he-huckleberry — swamp andromeda.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
  • hepatocellular — pertaining to or affecting liver cells.
  • herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
  • hercules'-club — a prickly North American araliaceous shrub, Aralia spinosa, with medicinal bark and leaves
  • hermeneuticist — One who studies hermeneutics.
  • heroic couplet — a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man.
  • heterochromous — of different colors.
  • 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 scripture — Scripture (def 1).
  • holy sepulcher — the sepulcher in which the body of Jesus lay between His burial and His resurrection.
  • holy sepulchre — the tomb in which the body of Christ was laid after the Crucifixion
  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • homomultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more identical polypeptide chains.
  • 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.
  • horticulturist — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
  • house of cards — a structure or plan that is insubstantial and subject to imminent collapse, as a structure made by balancing playing cards against each other: The scheme is so overly complicated that it's likely to prove to be just another house of cards.
  • huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
  • humoristically — In a humoristic way.
  • hunter's sauce — chasseur (def 4).
  • hurricane deck — a deck at the top of a passenger steamer, having a roof supported by light scantlings.
  • hurricane lamp — a candlestick or oil lantern protected against drafts or winds by a glass chimney.
  • hydraulic lift — an elevator operated by fluid pressure, especially one used for raising automobiles in service stations and garages.
  • hydraulic pile — a hollow pile through which a jet of water is forced to wash away the ground beneath.
  • hydraulic ramp — a movable ramp operated by pressure transmitted through a pipe by a liquid
  • hydroacoustics — the study of sound travelling through water
  • hydrocellulose — a gelatinous substance obtained by the partial hydrolysis of cellulose, used chiefly in the manufacture of paper, mercerized cotton, and viscose rayon.
  • hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hydrosulphuric — Alternative spelling of hydrosulfuric.
  • hydroxybutyric — Of or pertaining to the hydroxybutyric acids or their derivatives.
  • hyperacuteness — the state of being extremely acute or aware
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