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14-letter words containing e, u, c, h, a, r

  • cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
  • crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
  • 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.
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • discharge tube — gas tube.
  • 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.
  • drophead coupé — two-door car with a folding roof and sloping back
  • 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.
  • euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
  • 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
  • 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.
  • fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
  • free churchman — (sometimes initial capital letters) a member of a free church.
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
  • greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
  • 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.
  • hammer crusher — A hammer crusher is a crusher in which a hammer hits the material that is being crushed.
  • harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
  • hepatocellular — pertaining to or affecting liver cells.
  • herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
  • hindu calendar — a lunisolar calendar that governs all Hindu and most Indian festivals, known from about 1000 b.c. and subsequently modified during the 4th and 6th centuries a.d.
  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
  • house of cards — a structure or plan that is insubstantial and subject to imminent collapse, as a structure made by balancing playing cards against each other: The scheme is so overly complicated that it's likely to prove to be just another house of cards.
  • hunter's sauce — chasseur (def 4).
  • hurricane deck — a deck at the top of a passenger steamer, having a roof supported by light scantlings.
  • hurricane lamp — a candlestick or oil lantern protected against drafts or winds by a glass chimney.
  • hydraulic pile — a hollow pile through which a jet of water is forced to wash away the ground beneath.
  • hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hyperacuteness — the state of being extremely acute or aware
  • hypercalciuria — an abnormally high amount of calcium in the urine.
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hyperuricaemia — an abnormal elevation of uric acid in the blood
  • hyperuricemias — Plural form of hyperuricemia.
  • 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.
  • jump the track — to go suddenly off the rails
  • l-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall after which values remain low for a long period
  • lease-purchase — the continuing use of property or goods under a lease for a stipulated period with option for the lessee to buy and with part of the rental charges credited toward the purchase price.
  • macrocephalous — Having a large head.
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