11-letter words containing h, a, u
- chou pastry — cream puff paste.
- chrome alum — a violet-red crystalline substance, used as a mordant in dyeing. Formula: KCr(SO4)2.12H2O
- chuck wagon — a wagon carrying provisions and cooking utensils for men, such as cowboys, who work in the open
- chucklehead — a stupid person; blockhead; dolt
- chuckwallas — Plural form of chuckwalla.
- chugalugged — Simple past tense and past participle of chugalug.
- chukchi sea — part of the Arctic Ocean, north of the Bering Strait between Asia and North America
- chukka boot — an ankle-high boot made of suede or rubber and worn for playing polo
- chula vista — city in SW Calif.: suburb of San Diego: pop. 174,000
- chum salmon — a large salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) with pale flesh, found in the N Pacific
- chupacabras — Plural form of chupacabra.
- church army — a voluntary Anglican organization founded in 1882 to assist the parish clergy
- church hall — a building near to or attached to a church suitable for social gatherings
- church rate — (formerly in England and Ireland) a compulsory assessment imposed on the parishioners' holdings of houses or land in order to repair the parish church and maintain its services.
- churchwards — in the direction of the church
- churchwoman — a female practising member of a church
- churchyards — Plural form of churchyard.
- cladanthous — pleurocarpous.
- clean house — to clean and put a home in order
- closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
- coach house — a building in which a coach is kept
- coach-built — (of a vehicle) having specially built bodywork
- coauthoring — Present participle of coauthor.
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- couch grass — a grass, Agropyron repens, with a yellowish-white creeping underground stem by which it spreads quickly: a troublesome weed
- couch-grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
- crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
- crash truck — an emergency vehicle based at an airport.
- crazy house — an asylum for people with psychiatric disorders
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- cri du chat — cat's cry syndrome.
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
- cutlassfish — any of a family (Trichiuridae) of very long, thin percoid fishes with a wide mouth and sharp, pointed teeth, found near the surface in tropical seas
- cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
- cytophagous — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
- dandy brush — a brush with stiff, short bristles that is used for grooming animals, especially horses.
- dandy-brush — a stiff brush used for grooming a horse
- danish blue — a strong-tasting white cheese with blue veins
- dasht-e-lut — vast desert region of central and SE Iran, extending southward from the Dasht-e-Kavir
- dasht-i-lut — a desert plateau in central and E central Iran
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- death house — the section of a prison containing an execution chamber and the cells in which persons condemned to die are housed in the days just before their execution
- death squad — Death squads are groups of people who operate illegally and carry out the killing of people such as their political opponents or criminals.
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- debauchedly — In a debauched manner.