12-letter words containing d, u, c, h, e
- flush-decked — having a weather deck flush with the hull.
- french sudan — former name of Mali.
- grudge match — You can call a contest between two people or groups a grudge match when they dislike each other.
- hallucinated — Simple past tense and past participle of hallucinate.
- hard-surface — to make the surface of (something) hard or firm, as by compacting or paving it: to hard-surface a parking area.
- head lettuce — any variety of the lettuce subspecies Lactuca sativa capitata, having leaves that grow in a dense rosette, especially iceberg lettuce and Boston lettuce.
- house doctor — a resident physician in a hospital, hotel, or other public institution.
- huffman code — Huffman coding
- human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- hydraulicked — (of an extracted mineral) excavated using water
- hydroculture — A type of hydroponics in which plants are grown in a medium that allows the distribution of water and nutrients through capillary action.
- kidney punch — an illegal punch in the lower back.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- middle dutch — the Dutch language of the period c1100–c1500. Abbreviation: MD.
- moustachioed — Alternative spelling of moustachio\u2019d.
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- nonscheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
- outstretched — to stretch forth; extend: to outstretch one's hand in welcome.
- overscutched — overworked; worn out
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- photoinduced — induced by light.
- plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
- prescheduled — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
- pseudoscheme — A translator from Scheme to Common Lisp by Jonathan Rees <[email protected]>. Version 2.8. It conforms to all of R3RS except call/cc and requires Common Lisp. Runs on Lucid, Symbolics CL, VAX Lisp, Explorer CL. Mailing list: [email protected]
- punched card — a card having holes punched in specific positions and patterns so as to represent data to be stored or processed mechanically, electrically, or photoelectrically.
- punched tape — Computers. paper tape.
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
- rough-voiced — having a harsh or grating voice: a rough-voiced barker.
- sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
- south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- speech sound — any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Compare phoneme.
- sun-drenched — Sun-drenched places have a lot of hot sunshine.
- supercharged — equipped with a supercharger.
- thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
- thundercloud — cumulonimbus.
- thunderstick — bull-roarer.
- turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
- unapproached — not approached; not able to be approached or neared
- unbesmirched — to soil; tarnish; discolor.
- unchallenged — a euphemism for disabled (usually preceded by an adverb): physically challenged.
- unchannelled — not conveyed or routed along a channel
- unchaperoned — not chaperoned; not accompanied by a chaperone
- uncharnelled — removed from a charnel; exhumed
- unchristened — not christened
- unchronicled — not chronicled or recorded
- undeciphered — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- underachieve — to perform, especially academically, below the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.