12-letter words containing h, a, u, n, c
- john mauchly — (person) /jon W mok'*-lee/ (rhymes with "broccoli") Dr. John W. Mauchly, one of the developers of ENIAC.
- kanchenjunga — a mountain in S Asia, between NE India and Nepal, in the E Himalayas: third highest in the world. 28,169 feet (8586 meters).
- khachaturian — Aram Ilich [ar-uh m il-yich;; Russian uh-rahm ee-lyeech] /ˈær əm ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian ʌˈrɑm iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–78, Armenian composer.
- kinchinjunga — Kanchenjunga.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- laguna beach — a town in S California.
- latin church — the Roman Catholic Church.
- launch party — a party that celebrates the launch of a new magazine, product, etc
- lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
- magnus hitch — a knot similar to a clove hitch but taking one more turn around the object to which the line is being bent; rolling hitch.
- metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
- mischanceful — unlucky
- mooch around — If you mooch around or mooch about a place, you move around there slowly with no particular purpose.
- motor launch — a small naval vessel that chases submarines, etc
- multichannel — Employing or possessing many television or communications channels.
- musicianship — knowledge, skill, and artistic sensitivity in performing music.
- naturopathic — (alternative medicine) Of or pertaining to naturopathy or to naturopaths.
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- neurasthenic — pertaining to or suffering from neurasthenia.
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- pack a punch — be powerful
- 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.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- pentateuchal — the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
- photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
- pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
- press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
- 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.
- punching bag — an inflated or stuffed bag, usually suspended, punched with the fists as an exercise.
- quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
- 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.
- rabbit punch — a short, sharp blow to the nape of the neck or the lower part of the skull.
- rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
- return match — sport: second game between same teams
- schaffhausen — a canton in N Switzerland. 100 sq. mi. (259 sq. km).
- schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
- schuman plan — the plan for establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, proposed by Robert Schuman, French political leader, in 1950.
- snatch squad — a squad of soldiers or police trained to deal with demonstrations by picking out and arresting the alleged ringleaders
- sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
- sunday punch — Boxing. the most powerful and effective punch of a boxer, especially the punch used in trying to gain a knockout.
- supply chain — process of manufacture and sale
- thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
- touch and go — precarious situation
- touch-and-go — risky; precarious: a touch-and-go descent down the mountain.