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13-letter words containing c, u, t, h, a

  • non-rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
  • nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
  • not much of a — If you describe something as not much of a particular type of thing, you mean that it is small or of poor quality.
  • nut chocolate — chocolate containing nuts
  • octagon house — a type of American house, c. 1850, having an octagonal perimeter to reduce exterior wall area.
  • outreach work — work (done by welfare workers, volunteers, etc) designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
  • pass the buck — Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
  • patch pumpkin — pumpkin
  • pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
  • pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
  • photoacoustic — optoacoustic
  • pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • play catch up — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
  • play catch-up — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
  • port harcourt — a seaport in S Nigeria.
  • postholocaust — following a holocaust
  • public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
  • pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
  • puritan ethic — work ethic.
  • rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
  • rhesus factor — Rh factor.
  • scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
  • schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • share account — a savings account in a credit union.
  • shark biscuit — a bodyboard
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • short account — the account of a short seller.
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • space shuttle — any of several U.S. space vehicles consisting of a reusable manned orbiter that touches down on a landing strip after an orbital mission, two reusable solid rocket boosters that drop off after initial ascent, and an expendable external tank containing liquid propellants.
  • squash racket — a light long-handled racket used in the game of squash
  • stomach upset — a slight illness affecting your stomach and/or bowels characterized by nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea
  • suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
  • tautochronous — having the character of a tautochrone
  • tax schedules — the different ways of classifying income under tax law
  • terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
  • the cup final — the annual final of the FA Cup soccer competition, played at Wembley, or the Scottish Cup, played at Hampden Park
  • the holocaust — the systematic, genocidal destruction of over six million European Jews by the Nazis before and during WWII
  • therapeutical — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • thermonuclear — relating to nuclear fusion
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  • thoracic duct — the main trunk of the lymphatic system, passing along the spinal column in the thoracic cavity, and conveying a large amount of lymph and chyle into the venous circulation.
  • thoracolumbar — of the thoracic and lumbar regions
  • thoroughbrace — either of two strong leather straps upon which the body of certain types of carriage is supported
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