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11-letter words containing h, a, c, u

  • euchromatin — the part of a chromosome that constitutes the major genes and does not stain strongly with basic dyes when the cell is not dividing
  • feather cut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
  • feather-cut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
  • fruit ranch — a farm where fruit is the main produce.
  • fucoxanthin — a brown carotenoid pigment occurring in brown algae, diatoms, and dinoflagellates.
  • furtherance — the act of furthering; promotion; advancement.
  • glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
  • grand duchy — a territory ruled by a grand duke or grand duchess.
  • hack around — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
  • hacking run — (jargon)   (Analogy with "bombing run" or "speed run") A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours. May cause you to "change phase the hard way".
  • hair colour — the colour or shade of someone's hair
  • hair-curler — a cylindrical device, usually electronic and heated, used to curl the hair
  • haircutting — an act or instance of cutting the hair.
  • hall church — a Romanesque church in which the side aisles are equally high as the nave, and which has no clerestory, making the space rather dark.
  • hallucinant — a person who experiences hallucinations
  • hallucinate — to have hallucinations.
  • handcuffing — Present participle of handcuff.
  • hard launch — the general or official launch, esp of a website, after which all features, products, and services are understood to be available
  • hardecanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
  • hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
  • harnoncourt — Nikolaus. 1929–2016, Austrian conductor and cellist, noted for his performances using period instruments
  • haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
  • hash bucket — hash coding
  • haunch bone — the ilium or hipbone.
  • haunch-bone — the ilium or hipbone.
  • haute ecole — a series of intricate steps, gaits, etc., taught to an exhibition horse.
  • haute-piece — a standing flange fixed to or formed on a pauldron as a protection for one side of the neck.
  • health club — a usually private club that offers its members facilities for exercising and physical conditioning.
  • heartstruck — Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
  • heat source — sth that generates warmth
  • heavy crude — a type of crude oil that does not flow easily and has greater viscosity and specific density than other types of crude
  • hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
  • hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
  • herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
  • heuristical — Of or pertaining to heuristics.
  • hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
  • hierurgical — of or relating to sacred rites
  • hippocampus — Classical Mythology. a sea horse with two forefeet, and a body ending in the tail of a dolphin or fish.
  • holocaustic — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
  • homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
  • horn clause — (logic)   A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
  • house place — (in medieval architecture) a room common to all the inhabitants of a house, as a hall.
  • house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
  • house-craft — skill in domestic management
  • hsuan chiao — Taoism (def 2).
  • hucksterage — the business of a huckster; peddling
  • hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
  • hue and cry — Early English Law. the pursuit of a felon or an offender with loud outcries or clamor to give an alarm.
  • huitlacoche — Corn smut prepared as a delicacy.
  • humectation — A moistening.
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