15-letter words containing c, u, t, h, r
- planter's punch — a punch made with rum, lime juice, sugar, and water or soda.
- puerto ayacucho — a city in S Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
- pulchritudinous — physically beautiful; comely.
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- quasihistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- rheumatic fever — a serious disease, associated with streptococcal infections, usually affecting children, characterized by fever, swelling and pain in the joints, sore throat, and cardiac involvement.
- 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.
- sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
- scatter cushion — Scatter cushions are small cushions for use on sofas and chairs.
- schola cantorum — an ecclesiastical choir or choir school.
- scotch foursome — foursome (def 2b).
- security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
- security threat — a threat to the security of a country
- shuttle service — transport going back and forth
- 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.
- southern gothic — a literary genre depicting life in the southern US and featuring grotesque themes and imagery
- squelch circuit — a circuit which disconnects a receiver in order to eliminate output noise when no signal or an extremely weak signal is received
- 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.
- student teacher — a student who is studying to be a teacher and who, as part of the training, observes classroom instruction or does closely supervised teaching in an elementary or secondary school.
- 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.
- sumatra camphor — borneol.
- technostructure — the group or class of technically skilled administrators, scientists, and engineers who manage and influence business, the economy, and government affairs.
- the crucifixion — the crucifying of Christ at Calvary, regarded by Christians as the culminating redemptive act of his ministry
- theft insurance — insurance against loss or damage of property resulting from theft.
- therapeutically — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
- thermionic tube — a vacuum tube in which the cathode is heated electrically to cause the emission of electrons by thermal agitation.
- thought process — thinking, train of thought
- through traffic — traffic which continues on a road or highway rather than crossing onto a different road
- thunderstricken — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
- torture chamber — a room where somebody is caused extreme physical pain, esp in order to extract information, break resistance, etc
- travel brochure — a brochure, often from a travel agency, which advertises holidays, hotels, etc
- truth-condition — the circumstances under which a statement is true
- turkish cypriot — denoting ethnically Turkish inhabitants of Cyprus
- turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.
- turn the corner — the place at which two converging lines or surfaces meet.
- turn the scales — to determine or decide something uncertain
- ultramicrofiche — ultrafiche.
- uncharacterized — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
- unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- urquhart castle — a castle near Drumnadrochit in Highland, Scotland: situated on Loch Ness
- vermouth cassis — a mixed drink made with dry vermouth, crème de cassis, soda or mineral water, and cracked ice.
- virtual machine — Also called system virtual machine. a self-contained operating environment that behaves as if it is a separate computer, with no access to the host operating system: When an application runs in a virtual machine, there is little chance that it will damage files or applications in the host system.
- walrus mustache — a thick, shaggy mustache hanging down loosely at both ends.
- white corpuscle — white blood cell.