14-letter words containing c, h, u, t, n
- counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- counting house — a room or building used by the accountants of a business
- county borough — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and in Wales from 1996) a borough administered independently of any higher tier of local government
- court of honor — the planning body of a girl-scout troop, composed of patrol leaders, the troop scribe, the troop treasurer, and the adult troop leader.
- courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
- cruising yacht — a yacht which is used for holiday trips
- curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- cut and thrust — If you talk about the cut and thrust of an activity, you are talking about the aspects of it that make it exciting and challenging.
- cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
- discount house — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
- 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.
- 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.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- 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
- get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
- 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.
- hallucinations — Plural form of hallucination.
- 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.
- heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
- 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.
- 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.
- humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
- humanistically — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- humidification — to make humid.
- hunter's sauce — chasseur (def 4).
- huntsman's-cup — a common pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea.
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hyperacuteness — the state of being extremely acute or aware
- ichthyocentaur — a sea creature with a human head and torso, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish.
- ichthyosaurian — (paleontology) Of or relating to the Ichthyosauria.
- in the picture — informed about a given situation
- inauthenticity — not authentic: inauthentic Indian jewelry mass-produced in a factory.
- instructorship — a person who instructs; teacher.
- lake neuchâtel — a lake in W Switzerland: the largest lake wholly in Switzerland. Area: 216 sq km (83 sq miles)
- langue de chat — a flat sweet finger-shaped biscuit
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).