13-letter words containing c, o, u, r, t, h
- country house — A country house is a large, often attractive, house in the country, usually one that is or was owned by a rich or noble family.
- court hearing — an official meeting held in court
- creosote bush — a shrub, Larrea (or Covillea) tridentata of the western US and Mexico, that has resinous leaves with an odour resembling creosote, and can live for many thousands of years: family Zygophyllaceae
- culture shock — Culture shock is a feeling of anxiety, loneliness, and confusion that people sometimes experience when they first arrive in another country.
- cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
- cycle drought — A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory. There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
- dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
- electrophorus — A device for repeatedly generating static electricity by induction.
- ethnocultural — Relating to or denoting a particular ethnic group.
- feature shock — (jargon) (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
- fort huachuca — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in SE Arizona, SE of Tucson.
- hallucinatory — pertaining to or characterized by hallucination: hallucinatory visions.
- halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- haute couture — high fashion; the most fashionable and influential dressmaking and designing.
- here document — (operating system) Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
- heterocarpous — (of a plant) producing more than one type of fruit
- heteroclitous — heteroclite
- heterocystous — containing or relating to heterocysts
- home computer — a personal computer used in the home.
- horror-struck — stricken with horror; horrified; aghast.
- horticultural — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
- hortus siccus — a collection of dried plants; herbarium.
- host computer — the main computer in a network: controls or performs certain functions for other computers.
- hot cross bun — a bun with a cross of frosting on it, eaten chiefly during Lent.
- house cricket — a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.
- hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
- hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- hyracotherium — eohippus.
- ichthyosaurus — ichthyosaur.
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- lissotrichous — having straight hair.
- literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
- logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
- lophotrichous — (biology, of bacteria) Having multiple flagella located at the same point, so that they can act in concert to drive the bacterium in a single direction.
- lunch counter — a counter, as in a store or restaurant, where light meals and snacks are served or are sold to be taken out.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- mother church — a church from which other churches have had their origin or derived their authority.
- motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- niche product — sth of specific or limited consumer interest
- non-rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- north country — the part of England north of the Humber estuary.
- outreach work — work (done by welfare workers, volunteers, etc) designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
- outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
- picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs