11-letter words containing h, o, c, u
- outpouching — (pathology) evagination.
- outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
- oxyrhynchus — a fish found in the Nile, sometimes depicted on Egyptian sculptures and coins
- pate a chou — French Cookery. cream puff paste.
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- photoreduce — to undergo or to cause to undergo photoreduction
- plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- preluncheon — a light meal before lunch
- psychagogue — a necromancer
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- punch spoon — a spoon having a pierced bowl and a barbed end for removing fruit, ice, etc., from punch.
- punchinello — a grotesque or absurd chief character in a puppet show of Italian origin: the prototype of Punch.
- ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
- ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
- reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
- rock thrush — any of several Old World thrushes of the genus Monticola, usually having bluish plumage, especially M. saxatilis, of Europe.
- roman punch — a lemon-water ice flavored with rum or other alcoholic beverage.
- rough music — (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
- roundarched — having semicircular arches
- route march — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
- sarcophagus — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
- scaramouche — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
- scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
- sceuophylax — a keeper of sacred vessels
- schaffhouse — a town in N Switzerland, capital of Schaffhausen canton, on the Rhine. Pop: 33 628 (2000)
- school fund — the money provided by a government or raised by parents and teachers to finance the running of a school
- schoolhouse — a building in which a school is conducted.
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- scuffle hoe — a hoe with a flat blade, pushed back and forth through the surface soil, as to weed
- sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
- shuttlecock — Also called shuttle. the object that is struck back and forth in badminton and battledore, consisting of a feathered cork head and a plastic crown.
- so much for — So much for is used to indicate that you have finished talking about a subject.
- soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
- sound check — an on-the-spot rehearsal by a band before a gig to enable the sound engineer to set up the mixer
- sour cherry — a cherry, Prunus cerasus, characterized by gray bark and the spreading habit of its branches.
- spathaceous — of the nature of or resembling a spathe.
- stockhausen — Karlheinz [kahrl-hahynts] /ˈkɑrlˌhaɪnts/ (Show IPA), 1928–2007, German composer.
- stop chorus — a solo during which the rhythm section plays only the first beat of each phrase of music
- stretch out — lie down, sprawl
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- superheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- superschool — a large school
- synchronous — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.