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13-letter words containing h, a, u, s, e

  • chamber music — Chamber music is classical music written for a small number of instruments.
  • changefulness — Propensity to change.
  • chapter house — A chapter house is the building or set of rooms in the grounds of a cathedral where the members of the clergy hold their meetings.
  • charles louis — (Karl Ludwig Johann) 1771–1847, archduke of Austria.
  • charnel house — A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.
  • chattel house — (esp in Barbados) a movable wooden dwelling, usually set on a foundation of loose stones on rented land
  • chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
  • chestnut clam — Astarte (def 2).
  • chestnut coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 3/16 to 1 5/8 inch (3 to 4 cm).
  • choripetalous — polypetalous
  • chrysanthemum — A chrysanthemum is a large garden flower with many long, thin petals.
  • churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
  • cinchonaceous — relating to cinchona
  • cinematheques — Plural form of cinematheque.
  • claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • colleagueship — workplace companionship
  • conchylaceous — Of or relating to shells; resembling a shell.
  • counter shaft — A counter shaft is a shaft that runs parallel to the main shaft in a gearbox, and carries the pinion wheels.
  • countershafts — Plural form of countershaft.
  • crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
  • culture clash — a conflict arising from the interaction of people with different cultural values
  • death futures — life insurance policies of terminally ill people that are bought speculatively for a lump sum by a company, enabling it to collect the proceeds of the policies when the sufferers die
  • death tourist — a seriously ill person who seeks to terminate his or her own life by travelling to a country where medically assisted suicide is legal
  • debauchedness — The state or quality of being debauched.
  • dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
  • deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
  • diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
  • dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
  • dishabituated — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
  • dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • dutch disease — the deindustrialization of an economy as a result of the discovery of a natural resource, as that which occurred in Holland with the exploitation of North Sea gas, which raised the value of the Dutch currency, making its exports uncompetitive and causing its industry to decline
  • east by south — a point on the compass 11°15prime; south of east. Abbreviation: EbS.
  • emphysematous — (medicine) Related, similar to or involving emphysema; swollen, bloated.
  • entomophagous — feeding mainly on insects; insectivorous
  • erythematosus — (pathology) An eruption of red lesions.
  • ethnophaulism — An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided. For example,
  • eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
  • euphausiacean — a member of the Euphausiacea order of small shrimplike crustaceans
  • euphemistical — Archaic form of euphemistic.
  • euthanisation — Alternative spelling of euthanization.
  • exanthematous — Of or pertaining to exanthem.
  • exhaust valve — An exhaust valve is a valve that releases burned gases from a cylinder.
  • exhaustipated — Too tired to care about anything.
  • exhaustlessly — in an exhaustless manner
  • extinguishant — a substance, such as a liquid, foam, powder, etc, used in extinguishing fires
  • false bulrush — a tall reedlike marsh plant, Typha latifolia, with straplike leaves and flowers in long brown sausage-shaped spikes: family Typhaceae
  • fashion house — an establishment in which fashionable clothes are designed, made, and sold
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
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