10-letter words containing h, a, c, u
- coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
- colourwash — a coloured distemper
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- court hand — a style of handwriting formerly used in English law courts
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- cruikshank — George. 1792–1878, English illustrator and caricaturist
- crunchable — That can be crunched.
- cuban heel — a moderately high heel for a shoe or boot
- cuchulainn — a hero of Ulster and the subject of many legends.
- cunningham — Merce (mɜːs). 1919–2009 US dancer and choreographer. His experimental ballets include Suite for Five (1956) and Travelogue (1977)
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- cut a dash — If you say that someone cuts a dash, you mean that they have an attractively stylish appearance or a rather bold manner.
- cut-throat — If you describe a situation as cut-throat, you mean that the people or companies involved all want success and do not care if they harm each other in getting it.
- cutthroats — Plural form of cutthroat.
- dachshunds — Plural form of dachshund.
- debauchees — Plural form of debauchee.
- debauchery — You use debauchery to refer to the drinking of alcohol or to sexual activity if you disapprove of it or regard it as excessive.
- debauching — Present participle of debauch.
- douche bag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
- douchebags — Plural form of douchebag.
- doughfaced — over-persuadable
- du chaillu — Paul Belloni [pawl buh-loh-nee;; French pawl be-law-nee] /pɔl bəˈloʊ ni;; French pɔl bɛ lɔˈni/ (Show IPA), 1835–1903, U.S. explorer in Africa, traveler, and writer; born in France.
- dude ranch — a ranch operated primarily as a vacation resort.
- dutch barn — a farm building consisting of a steel frame and a curved roof
- dutchwoman — a female native or inhabitant of the Netherlands; a woman of Dutch ancestry.
- dyrrachium — a port in W Albania, on the Adriatic. Pop: 86 900 (1991 est)
- echinulate — (of a plant or animal) having a covering of prickles or small spines.
- encephalum — The brain of an insect.
- epicanthus — (anatomy) A skin fold of the upper eyelid, typical to East Asians.
- euharmonic — producing perfect concord or harmony
- euphonical — (archaic) euphonious; pleasing to the ear.
- eurybathic — (of an aquatic organism) able to live at different depths
- eustachian — Alternative form of Eustachian.
- euthanasic — Of, or pertaining to euthanasia.
- faith cure — a method of attempting to cure disease by prayer and religious faith.
- feathercut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- fish sauce — a spicy sauce made from the fermented liquid of salt-cured fish, especially anchovies, popular as a flavoring or condiment in Southeast Asian cookery.
- flaunching — The sloped mortar fillet around the base of a chimney pot, which serves to hold the pot in position and allow rainwater to run off.
- gaucheness — The quality of being gauche.
- gaucheries — Plural form of gaucherie.
- guaguanche — a barracuda, Sphyraena guachanco, found chiefly off the coast of Florida.
- habitaunce — a place where a person or an animal lives or resides
- hack house — Falconry. a shed where young hawks are kept and fed while at hack.
- hack value — Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value. See display hack for one method of computing hack value, but this cannot really be explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said when asked to explain jazz: "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." (Feminists please note Fats Waller's explanation of rhythm: "Lady, if you got to ask you ain't got it.")
- haircutter — A barber.
- halieutics — (literature) A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing.
- hamesucken — the offence of attacking a person in his or her own dwelling
- hand cruft — (jargon) (After "hand craft") To write something by hand that would be better done automatically, e.g. writing assembly language instead of using a compiler (see hand hacking).
- hand truck — truck1 (def 3).
- handcuffed — Simple past tense and past participle of handcuff.