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15-letter words containing c, h, u, t

  • scatter cushion — Scatter cushions are small cushions for use on sofas and chairs.
  • scheduled caste — (in India) the official name given to the lower castes that are now protected by the government and offered special concessions.
  • schola cantorum — an ecclesiastical choir or choir school.
  • school-gate mum — a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
  • scotch foursome — foursome (def 2b).
  • second thoughts — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
  • security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
  • security threat — a threat to the security of a country
  • shoot-the-chute — a fairground ride consisting of a boat which slides down into a lagoon
  • shut one's face — to be silent
  • shuttle service — transport going back and forth
  • sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
  • south caucasian — a family of languages including Georgian, Mingrelian, and others that are spoken on the south slopes of the Caucasus and adjacent areas.
  • south china sea — a part of the W Pacific, bounded by SE China, Vietnam, the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and the Philippines.
  • southern gothic — a literary genre depicting life in the southern US and featuring grotesque themes and imagery
  • spanish customs — irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased financial allowances, reduced working hours, etc
  • squelch circuit — a circuit which disconnects a receiver in order to eliminate output noise when no signal or an extremely weak signal is received
  • stay the course — to spend some time in a place, in a situation, with a person or group, etc.: He stayed in the army for ten years.
  • student teacher — a student who is studying to be a teacher and who, as part of the training, observes classroom instruction or does closely supervised teaching in an elementary or secondary school.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
  • succedent house — any of the four houses that fall between the angular and cadent houses: the second, fifth, eighth, and eleventh houses, which correspond, respectively, to possessions and values, love and creation, shared possessions and resources, and friends and social concerns.
  • sumatra camphor — borneol.
  • t'ai chi ch'uan — a Chinese martial art and form of stylized, meditative exercise, characterized by methodically slow circular and stretching movements and positions of bodily balance.
  • technostructure — the group or class of technically skilled administrators, scientists, and engineers who manage and influence business, the economy, and government affairs.
  • tehuacan valley — a desert valley site in Puebla, Mexico, where aridity has preserved the vegetable remains of communities from 9000 b.c. to historic times, thus documenting the transition from hunting and gathering to the largely agricultural subsistence of the full Neolithic phase (1500–900 b.c.).
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the crucifixion — the crucifying of Christ at Calvary, regarded by Christians as the culminating redemptive act of his ministry
  • the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • the midas touch — ability to make money
  • the public weal — the public good; the good of society
  • the unconscious — the sum of all thoughts, memories, impulses, desires, feelings, etc. of which the individual is not conscious but which influence the emotions and behavior; that part of one's psyche which comprises repressed material of this nature
  • theft insurance — insurance against loss or damage of property resulting from theft.
  • therapeutically — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • thermionic tube — a vacuum tube in which the cathode is heated electrically to cause the emission of electrons by thermal agitation.
  • thought process — thinking, train of thought
  • through traffic — traffic which continues on a road or highway rather than crossing onto a different road
  • thunderstricken — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
  • tissue-matching — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
  • to chew the cud — When animals such as cows or sheep chew the cud, they slowly chew their partly-digested food over and over again in their mouth before finally swallowing it.
  • to pack a punch — If something packs a punch, it has a very powerful effect.
  • tongue in cheek — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
  • tongue-in-cheek — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
  • torture chamber — a room where somebody is caused extreme physical pain, esp in order to extract information, break resistance, etc
  • touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
  • touch-sensitive — Touch-sensitive equipment is operated by the user touching it.
  • travel brochure — a brochure, often from a travel agency, which advertises holidays, hotels, etc
  • truth-condition — the circumstances under which a statement is true
  • turkish cypriot — denoting ethnically Turkish inhabitants of Cyprus
  • turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.
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