14-letter words containing h, a, u
- crash and burn — to fail; be unsuccessful
- cruising yacht — a yacht which is used for holiday trips
- crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
- cuban sandwich — a hero sandwich, especially with ham, pork, cheese, and pickles, often grilled.
- curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- cut and thrust — If you talk about the cut and thrust of an activity, you are talking about the aspects of it that make it exciting and challenging.
- cut the cackle — to stop chattering; be quiet
- cuyahoga falls — a city in NE Ohio, near Akron.
- cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
- data warehouse — Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization: The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- de haut en bas — with haughtiness; condescendingly
- dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
- dehumanization — to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- detached house — a house that is not joined to any other house
- diaphanousness — The quality of being diaphanous.
- diaphragm pump — A diaphragm pump is a pump in which a diaphragm is used to move a fluid.
- dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
- double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
- dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
- drag parachute — drogue parachute (def 2).
- drag-parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
- dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
- draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- drophead coupé — two-door car with a folding roof and sloping back
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
- dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
- dust and ashes — something that is very disappointing
- dutch colonial — of or relating to the domestic architecture of Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey, often characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves over porches on the long sides.
- dutch cupboard — a buffet with open upper shelves.
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- east-southeast — the point on a compass midway between east and southeast.
- eastern church — any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
- english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
- enthusiastical — (obsolete) enthusiastic.
- euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
- euphuistically — In a euphuistic manner.
- eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.