12-letter words containing d, u, c, h
- 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
- dutch settle — a settle having a back so hinged that it can be lowered onto the arms to form a table.
- duty chemist — a dispensing chemist's that is open to the public for a specific period when other chemists are closed
- echo sounder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.
- edvard munch — Edvard [ed-vahrd] /ˈɛd vɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1863–1944, Norwegian painter and graphic artist.
- ethical drug — a drug which is only available legally with a doctor's prescription or consent
- eunuchoidism — A syndrome in males with a lack of sex characteristics due to lack of proper male sex hormones.
- flush-decked — having a weather deck flush with the hull.
- french sudan — former name of Mali.
- ground cloth — groundsheet.
- 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.
- hydrofluoric — of or derived from hydrofluoric acid.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- 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.
- mooch around — If you mooch around or mooch about a place, you move around there slowly with no particular purpose.
- 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
- orchard bush — open savanna country with occasional trees and scrub, as found north of the W African forest belt
- 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.
- photoproduct — any product which is produced by a chemical reaction that uses light or other electromagnetic radiation to increase energy of particles
- 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.
- quadraphonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
- quadriphonic — quadraphonic.
- quadrophonic — Alternative spelling of quadraphonic.
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
- rockhounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks
- rough-voiced — having a harsh or grating voice: a rough-voiced barker.
- schizopodous — of or relating to a schizopod