12-letter words containing c, u, t, h, r
- countershaft — an intermediate shaft that is driven by, but rotates in the opposite direction to, a main shaft, esp in a gear train
- counterweigh — counterbalance
- craw-thumper — an ostentatiously pious person
- creaturehood — the state of being a creature
- croquet hoop — a hoop stuck into a croquet lawn
- cruelhearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- culture hero — a mythical or mythicized historical figure who embodies the aspirations or ideals of a society.
- curietherapy — a form of radiation therapy using radium
- curtain hook — a hook used to attach a curtain to a curtain rail
- cut up rough — to become angry or bad-tempered
- cymotrichous — having wavy hair
- daughtercard — daughterboard
- disc shutter — a shutter in a movie camera or projector that covers the gap between separate frames
- dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
- dust catcher — Informal. a knickknack or other household object that is little used.
- dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
- dutch clover — white clover.
- dutch harbor — a U.S. naval base on Unalaska Island, in the Aleutian Islands.
- dutch master — one of a number of renowned and influential Dutch painters
- earth colour — any of various brown pigments composed chiefly of iron oxides
- eleutherarch — the chief of the eleutheri
- ethical drug — a drug which is only available legally with a doctor's prescription or consent
- ethylmercury — (chemistry) The organometallic cation CH3CH2Hg+; it is a toxicant that does not seem to accumulate in the environment.
- eutrophicate — (ecology, intransitive) To become eutrophic.
- executorship — The office or position of an executor.
- feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
- filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
- fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
- fourth-class — of, relating to, or designated as a class next below third, as for mailing, shipping, etc.
- future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- ground cloth — groundsheet.
- growth curve — a curve on a graph in which a variable is plotted against time to illustrate the growth of the variable
- grudge match — You can call a contest between two people or groups a grudge match when they dislike each other.
- gut-churning — nerve-wracking
- gutta-percha — the milky juice, nearly white when pure, of various Malaysian trees of the sapodilla family, especially Palaquium gutta.
- gutwrenching — Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching.
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- hallucinator — One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
- heart urchin — an echinoderm of the order Spatangoida, having an elongate, somewhat heart-shaped outer covering.
- hermeneutics — the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.
- herstmonceux — a village in S England, in E Sussex north of Eastbourne: 15th-century castle, site of the Royal Observatory, which was transferred from Greenwich between 1948 and 1958, until 1990
- heteroecious — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
- high country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
- hill country — hilly area
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- holy picture — a picture of a person or thing that is of religious importance
- home country — the country a person comes from
- homo erectus — an extinct species of the human lineage, formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus, having upright stature and a well-evolved postcranial skeleton, but with a smallish brain, low forehead, and protruding face.