15-letter words containing c, o, u, h, e
- north vancouver — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- nucleophilicity — (uncountable) The condition of being nucleophilic.
- nucleosynthesis — the formation of new atomic nuclei by nuclear reactions, thought to occur in the interiors of stars and in the early stages of development of the universe.
- nucleosynthetic — Of or pertaining to nucleosynthesis.
- ocean greyhound — a fast ship, esp a liner
- off one's chump — insane; crazy
- okhotsk current — a cold ocean current flowing SW from the Bering Sea, E of the Kurile Islands, along the E coast of Japan where it meets the Japan Current.
- on o's haunches — If you get down on your haunches, you lower yourself towards the ground so that your legs are bent under you and you are balancing on your feet.
- one-two (punch) — a sequence of two quick punches, esp. a jab with the left hand followed at once by a hard blow with the right
- out in the cold — having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day.
- outreach worker — a person who does work designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
- peroxysulphuric — as in peroxysulphuric acid
- pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.
- phenylketonuric — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
- photoconductive — of, relating to, or exhibiting photoconductivity.
- pinochet ugarte — Augusto [ou-goos-taw] /aʊˈgus tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1915–2006, Chilean army general and political leader: president 1973–90.
- pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
- proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
- pseudo-chemical — of, used in, produced by, or concerned with chemistry or chemicals: a chemical formula; chemical agents.
- puerto ayacucho — a city in S Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- push one's luck — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- quiche lorraine — a quiche containing bits of bacon or ham and often cheese.
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
- roche moutonnee — a rounded, glacially eroded rock outcrop, usually one of a group, resembling a sheep's back.
- rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
- round character — a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.
- round-the-clock — around-the-clock.
- sacred mushroom — any of various hallucinogenic mushrooms, esp species of Psilocybe and Amanita, that have been eaten in rituals in various parts of the world
- sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
- sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
- scaphocephalous — of or relating to scaphocephalus
- scatter cushion — Scatter cushions are small cushions for use on sofas and chairs.
- schone mullerin — a song cycle (1823), by Franz Schubert, consisting of 20 songs set to poems by Wilhelm Müller.
- school-gate mum — a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
- schopenhauerian — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
- schopenhauerism — the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.
- 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.
- shoot-the-chute — a fairground ride consisting of a boat which slides down into a lagoon
- shoulder charge — an instance of a player charging into another so that there is contact between their shoulders (permissible in some circumstances)
- shut one's face — to be silent
- 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.
- sodium chloride — salt1 (def 1).
- 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
- splanchnopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
- 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.
- 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.