14-letter words containing h, e, r, c, u
- orthomolecular — being or pertaining to the treatment of disease by increasing, decreasing, or otherwise controlling the intake of natural substances, especially vitamins. Compare megavitamin (def 1).
- pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
- parachute jump — leaping from aircraft with a parachute
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- park chung hee — 1917–79, South Korean politician: president 1963–79 (assassinated).
- peritrichously — in a peritrichous manner; in a fashion characteristic of a peritrichous organism
- pharmaceutical — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
- phillips curve — a curve that purports to plot the relationship between unemployment and inflation on the theory that as inflation falls unemployment rises and vice versa
- photoreduction — a reduction reaction induced by light.
- plenum-chamber — a system of mechanical ventilation in which fresh air is forced into the spaces to be ventilated from a chamber (plenum chamber) at a pressure slightly higher than atmospheric pressure, so as to expel foul air.
- plesiochronous — (communications) Nearly synchronised, a term describing a communication system where transmitted signals have the same nominal digital rate but are synchronised on different clocks. According to ITU-T standards, corresponding signals are plesiochronous if their significant instants occur at nominally the same rate, with any variation in rate being constrained within specified limits.
- pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
- porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- pseudo-archaic — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
- psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
- punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
- purchase order — document requesting to buy sth
- purchase price — cost at which sth is bought
- purse snatcher — wallet thief
- quicksilverish — resembling quicksilver
- rathke's pouch — an invagination of stomodeal ectoderm developing into the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
- raunch culture — a culture which promotes overtly sexual representations of women, as through the acceptance of pornography, stripping, nudity in advertising, etc, esp when this is encouraged by women
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- reckon without — If you say that you had reckoned without something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.
- rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- sacchariferous — containing or yielding sugar.
- sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
- scapulohumeral — of, relating to, or involving the scapula and humerus.
- scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
- school voucher — a government cash grant or tax credit for parents, equal to all or part of the cost of educating their child at an elementary or secondary school of their choice.
- schwyzertutsch — any of the local dialects of German spoken in Switzerland.
- sclerophyllous — Also, sclerophyllous [skleer-uh-fil-uh s] /ˌsklɪər əˈfɪl əs/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or exhibiting sclerophylly.
- scotch furnace — ore hearth.
- scrape through — only just succeed
- scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
- security check — the process of checking that a person is not armed, or carrying something dangerous
- servant church — the attitude or practices of a church whose avowed purpose is to serve the world.
- shoulder patch — a cloth emblem worn on the upper part of a sleeve of a uniform typically as identification of the organization to which the wearer is assigned.
- shower cubicle — a shower enclosure
- shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
- smoker's cough — a chronic cough caused by smoking.
- soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
- sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
- south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- southern cross — Also called Cross. Astronomy. a southern constellation between Centaurus and Musca. Compare Northern Cross.
- southern crown — the constellation Corona Australis.
- southern ocean — that part of the Indian Ocean south of Australia
- starch-reduced — (of food, esp bread) having the starch content reduced, as in proprietary slimming products
- stretch runner — an athlete or horse that is especially strong or fast in the final stage of a race.