10-letter words containing h, o, c, u
- cut-throat — If you describe a situation as cut-throat, you mean that the people or companies involved all want success and do not care if they harm each other in getting it.
- cutthroats — Plural form of cutthroat.
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- deckhouses — Plural form of deckhouse.
- distichous — Botany. arranged alternately in two vertical rows on opposite sides of an axis, as leaves.
- dock house — traditionally a building situated at the dock where a harbourmaster works and resides
- dog clutch — a clutch in which projections of one of the engaging parts fit into recesses of the other.
- dolichurus — a dactylic hexameter characterized by a redundant syllable at the end
- douche bag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
- douchebags — Plural form of douchebag.
- douchiness — (slang, derogatory) The quality of being douchey or douchy; objectionableness.
- doughfaced — over-persuadable
- duck-shove — to evade responsibility (for)
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- dutch bond — a brickwork bond in which the vertical joints of the stretchers in any course are in line with the centers of the first stretchers above and below.
- dutch doll — a jointed wooden doll
- dutch door — a door consisting of two units horizontally divided so that each half can be opened or closed separately.
- dutch gold — an alloy of copper and zinc in the form of thin sheets, used as an imitation of gold leaf.
- dutch oven — a heavily constructed kettle with a close-fitting lid, used for pot roasts, stews, etc.
- dutchwoman — a female native or inhabitant of the Netherlands; a woman of Dutch ancestry.
- embouchure — The way in which a player applies the mouth to the mouthpiece of a brass or wind instrument.
- eponychium — (anatomy) cuticle (thickened layer of skin on fingernails and toenails).
- escutcheon — A shield or emblem bearing a coat of arms.
- euchlorine — an explosive gaseous mixture of chlorine and chlorine dioxide
- euharmonic — producing perfect concord or harmony
- euphonical — (archaic) euphonious; pleasing to the ear.
- eurocheque — a cheque drawn on a European bank that can be cashed at any bank or bureau de change displaying the EC sign or that can be used to pay for goods or services at any outlet displaying this sign
- europhobic — hostile to Europe, Europeans, or the European Union
- fluohydric — (chemistry) hydrofluoric.
- forfeuchen — worn out; exhausted
- fourchette — Anatomy. the fold of skin that forms the posterior margin of the vulva.
- fourscorth — eightieth
- gill pouch — branchial pouch.
- glochidium — glochid.
- glucophore — a chemical group responsible for sweetness of taste
- go much on — to approve of or be in agreement with (something): usually used in the negative
- grouchiest — Superlative form of grouchy.
- guilloches — Plural form of guilloche.
- hack house — Falconry. a shed where young hawks are kept and fed while at hack.
- hard court — a tennis court having a concrete or asphalt surface.
- head count — an inventory of people in a group taken by counting individuals.
- hellacious — remarkable; astonishing: They're raising a hellacious amount of money in taxes.
- herbaceous — of, relating to, or characteristic of an herb; herblike.
- hiccoughed — Simple past tense and past participle of hiccough.
- high court — Supreme Court.
- high-count — (of a woven fabric) having a relatively high number of warp and filling threads per square inch.
- hocuspocus — Alternative spelling of hocus-pocus.
- hog sucker — any of several suckers of the genus Hypentelium, inhabiting cool streams of eastern North America and characterized by a broad head that is concave above.
- hold court — Law. a place where justice is administered. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases. a session of a judicial assembly.
- holocausts — Plural form of holocaust.