13-letter words containing h, o, u, r
- break through — If you break through a barrier, you succeed in forcing your way through it.
- breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
- breeches buoy — a ring-shaped life buoy with a support in the form of a pair of short breeches, in which a person is suspended for safe transfer from a ship
- brigham young — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.
- broiler house — a building in which broiler chickens are reared in confined conditions
- bulbourethral — of or relating to the rounded mass of tissue surrounding the urethra at the root of the penis.
- buprenorphine — an opiate used medicinally as a powerful analgesic
- busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
- butcher block — designating or of a thick slab made by gluing together strips of hardwood, as maple or oak, used for counter and table tops, etc.
- butcher's boy — a boy doing deliveries for a butcher and perhaps also learning the butchery trade, esp in the past
- butyrophenone — a drug used to treat psychiatric disorders
- camphoraceous — similar to camphor
- carrantuohill — a mountain in SW Republic of Ireland, in Macgillicuddy's Reeks in Kerry: the highest peak in Ireland. Height: 1041 m (3414 ft)
- carry through — If you carry something through, you do it or complete it, often in spite of difficulties.
- cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
- chaetophorous — bearing bristles; setigerous.
- chapter house — A chapter house is the building or set of rooms in the grounds of a cathedral where the members of the clergy hold their meetings.
- charles louis — (Karl Ludwig Johann) 1771–1847, archduke of Austria.
- charnel house — A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.
- checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
- chef-d'oeuvre — a masterpiece
- chemautotroph — an organism, such as a bacterium, that obtains its energy from inorganic reactions using simple compounds, such as ammonia or hydrogen sulphide
- chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
- chiaroscurist — A painter who uses light and shade rather than colour to create the illusion of volume.
- child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
- chlorocruorin — an oxygen-carrying substance that is found in the tissues of members of the division Annelida that is green in colour when oxygen is not present
- chlorous acid — an unstable acid that is a strong oxidizing agent. Formula: HClO2
- chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- chrysocarpous — bearing golden-yellow fruit.
- church of god — any of numerous Protestant denominations that stress personal conversion, sanctification, the imminent return of Jesus Christ, baptism by immersion, and, among some, speaking in tongues.
- church school — A church school is a school which has a special relationship with a particular branch of the Christian church, and where there is strong emphasis on worship and the teaching of religion.
- churchpersons — Plural form of churchperson.
- churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- click through — to navigate around (a website) using the links provided to move onto different pages
- click-through — the act of clicking on an advertisement or other link to go to another website, especially a retail site: The store gets lots of clickthroughs from social media.
- clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
- clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
- cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
- club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
- co-authorship — the state a coauthor
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
- cochlear duct — a spiral tube enclosed in the bony canal of the cochlea.
- cocktail hour — the interval before the evening meal during which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are often served.
- cold shoulder — If one person gives another the cold shoulder, they behave towards them in an unfriendly way, to show them that they do not care about them or that they want them to go away.
- cold-shoulder — to snub; show indifference to.
- colour scheme — In a room or house, the colour scheme is the way in which colours have been used to decorate it.