14-letter words containing e, r, c, h, t, u
- cruiserweights — Plural form of cruiserweight.
- crushed velvet — velvet with a flat finish that has a creased effect
- crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
- cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
- curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
- drag parachute — drogue parachute (def 2).
- drag-parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
- dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- eastern church — any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
- eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
- extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
- gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
- hepatocellular — pertaining to or affecting liver cells.
- hermeneuticist — One who studies hermeneutics.
- heroic couplet — a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man.
- heterochromous — of different colors.
- heterochronous — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
- holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
- homomultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more identical polypeptide chains.
- horse chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
- horse-chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
- hunter's sauce — chasseur (def 4).
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hyperacuteness — the state of being extremely acute or aware
- hypereutectoid — (of an alloy) having more of the alloying element than the eutectoid composition.
- hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
- ichthyocentaur — a sea creature with a human head and torso, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish.
- in the picture — informed about a given situation
- jump the track — to go suddenly off the rails
- light-coloured — having a light colour
- liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
- march fracture — a hairline crack in a bone, especially of a foot or leg, caused by repeated or prolonged stress and often occurring in runners, dancers, and soldiers (march fracture)
- master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- mercury switch — an especially quiet switch that opens and closes an electric circuit by shifting a vial containing a pool of mercury so as to cover or uncover the contacts.
- microtechnique — the art of preparing something so that it can properly be examined using a microscope
- mother country — the country of one's birth or ancestry.
- mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers