11-letter words containing c, u, h, i
- multichrome — chromium.
- multiethnic — involving or pertaining to two or more distinct ethnic groups.
- multiphasic — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- multischeme — An implementation of Multilisp built on MIT's C-Scheme, for the BBN Butterfly.
- munich pact — the pact signed by Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany on September 29, 1938, by which the Sudetenland was ceded to Germany: often cited as an instance of unwise and unprincipled appeasement of an aggressive nation.
- musk orchid — a small Eurasian orchid, Herminium monorchis, with dense spikes of musk-scented greenish-yellow flowers
- mustachioed — a mustache.
- nemathecium — a wartlike protuberance on the thallus of certain red algae, containing tetraspores, antheridia, or cystocarps.
- neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
- neuropathic — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
- night court — a criminal court that convenes at night for the quick disposition of charges and the granting of bail.
- nucleophile — of or relating to electron contribution in covalent bonding (opposed to electrophilic).
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- outmatching — Present participle of outmatch.
- outpouching — (pathology) evagination.
- outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
- parachuting — descent using parachute
- parachutist — sb who makes parachute jumps
- pasticheuse — a woman who makes or composes a pastiche.
- patch quilt — a patchwork quilt
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- perithecium — the fruiting body of ascomycetous fungi, typically a minute, more or less completely closed, globose or flask-shaped body enclosing the asci.
- pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
- picture hat — a woman's hat having a very broad, flexible brim, often decorated with feathers, flowers, or the like.
- plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
- puckishness — the state of being puckish
- pulchritude — physical beauty; comeliness.
- punchinello — a grotesque or absurd chief character in a puppet show of Italian origin: the prototype of Punch.
- quick march — a march in quick time.
- quick-hatch — a wolverine.
- quick-march — a march in quick time.
- quitchgrass — Elymus repens.
- relaunching — an act or instance of launching something again.
- rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
- rough music — (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
- saurischian — any herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur of the order Saurischia, having a three-pronged pelvis resembling that of a crocodile. Compare ornithischian.
- schizanthus — any of several plants of the genus Schizanthus, native to Chile, having numerous variously colored flowers resembling small orchids.
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- schuschnigg — Kurt von [kurt von;; German koort fuh n] /kɜrt vɒn;; German kurt fən/ (Show IPA) (1897–1977), Austrian statesman in the U.S.: Chancellor of Austria 1934–38.
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- sheet music — music printed on unbound sheets of paper.
- square inch — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one inch on each side; 6.452 square centimeters. 2 , sq. in. Abbreviation: in.
- squirearchy — the collective body of squires or landed gentry of a country.
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- subjectship — the state of being a subject or citizen
- súgán chair — a chair with a seat made from woven súgáns