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

  • 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.
  • counterchallenge — A challenge made in response to another challenge.
  • cut one's throat — to bring about one's own ruin
  • cut to the chase — If someone cuts to the chase, they start talking about or dealing with what is important, instead of less important things.
  • cut-throat razor — a razor with a long blade that usually folds into the handle
  • cytoarchitecture — (biology) The arrangement of cells in an organism or organ.
  • dehumidification — Dehumidification is the removal of vapor from a gas-vapor mixture.
  • diplomatic pouch — a sealed mailbag containing diplomatic correspondence that is sent free of inspection between a foreign office and its diplomatic or consular post abroad or from one such post to another.
  • drogue parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
  • duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
  • electrohydraulic — Relating to electrohydraulics.
  • episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
  • escutcheon plate — a plate or shield that surrounds a keyhole, door handle, light switch, etc, esp an ornamental one protecting a door or wall surface
  • farmhouse cheese — cheese that is made by traditional methods, on or as if on a farm
  • 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
  • functional shift — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
  • garlic mushrooms — mushrooms, often pan-fried, cooked with garlic
  • geoffrey chaucer — Geoffrey, 1340?–1400, English poet.
  • golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
  • 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.
  • health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
  • health-conscious — having an active interest in one's health
  • heliotherapeutic — Pertaining to heliotherapy.
  • hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
  • hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
  • 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.
  • hot-cathode tube — thermionic tube.
  • 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.
  • huffman encoding — Huffman coding
  • huntington beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
  • 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 .
  • hypostatic union — (In Cristianity) Christ's condition of being, at the same time, both human and divine
  • immunochemically — In an immunochemical way.
  • import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
  • jacques bonhomme — the contemptuous title given by the nobles to the peasants in the revolt of the Jacquerie in 1358 and adopted by the peasants in subsequent revolts.
  • john of damascus — Saint, a.d. c675–749, priest, theologian, and scholar of the Eastern Church, born in Damascus.
  • judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
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