11-letter words containing h, o, t, u
- calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
- catch up on — to engage in more (work, sleep, etc.) so as to compensate for earlier neglect
- champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
- chart house — a room or deckhouse for storing and working with charts, navigational instruments, etc.
- chartaceous — of the nature of paper; papery
- chateauroux — a town in central France: 10th-century castle (Château-Raoul). Pop: 46 386 (2009)
- chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
- chilled out — relaxed
- chou pastry — cream puff paste.
- choukoutien — Wade-Giles. Zhoukoudian.
- chucker-out — a person employed at a club, pub, disco, etc, to throw out drunks or troublemakers and stop those considered undesirable from entering
- chug report — (humour) From "chug" - to drink heavily. A bug report whose the submitter is thought to have had one too many. Not as bad as a drug report.
- chukka boot — an ankle-high boot made of suede or rubber and worn for playing polo
- cladanthous — pleurocarpous.
- coach-built — (of a vehicle) having specially built bodywork
- coauthoring — Present participle of coauthor.
- coconut shy — a fairground stall in which balls are thrown to knock coconuts off stands
- cool hunter — a person who is employed to identify future trends, esp in fashion or the media
- cotton bush — any of various downy chenopodiaceous shrubs, esp Kochia aphylla, which is used to feed livestock
- cottonmouth — water moccasin
- cough sweet — a lozenge to relieve a cough
- countermyth — a myth that conflicts with another myth
- countershot — a sequence of frames seen from the perspective of the subject of the previous shot
- county home — a county poorhouse.
- courthouses — Plural form of courthouse.
- credit hour — A credit hour is a credit that a school or college awards to students who have completed a course of study.
- crushworthy — (usually, of a, person) Suitable for a crush (infatuation): attractive.
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- cushion cut — a variety of brilliant cut in which the girdle has the form of a square with rounded corners.
- customhouse — a building or office where customs or duties are paid and ships are cleared for entering or leaving
- cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
- cut through — to penetrate or go through by cutting
- cytophagous — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
- 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
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
- dichotomous — divided or dividing into two parts.
- dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- discotheque — a nightclub for dancing to live or recorded music and often featuring sophisticated sound systems, elaborate lighting, and other effects.
- dish it out — an open, relatively shallow container of pottery, glass, metal, wood, etc., used for various purposes, especially for holding or serving food.
- do up right — to do carefully or thoroughly
- dongting hu — lake in Hunan province, SE China: c. 1,450 sq mi (3,755 sq km); during floods, over 4,000 sq mi (10,360 sq km)
- donut peach — fruit
- doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
- doughtiness — steadfastly courageous and resolute; valiant.
- downdraught — Alternative spelling of downdraft.
- dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- drouthiness — the state or condition of being thirsty or dry