12-letter words containing h, u, e, s, c, a
- dust catcher — Informal. a knickknack or other household object that is little used.
- dutch master — one of a number of renowned and influential Dutch painters
- enthusiastic — Having or showing intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
- escape chute — a fabric tube or chute hinged to the wall of a stairwell and used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
- french sudan — former name of Mali.
- hallucinates — to have hallucinations.
- hard-surface — to make the surface of (something) hard or firm, as by compacting or paving it: to hard-surface a parking area.
- hellaciously — In a hellacious manner.
- hoisin sauce — a thick, sweet, spicy condiment containing soybeans, sugar, garlic, and chili peppers, used in cooking or as an accompaniment to meat, fish, or poultry, especially Peking duck.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
- hypersurface — a mathematical object that generalizes the concept of surface from three-dimensional Euclidean space to hyperspace.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- massachusett — a member of an extinct tribe of North American Indians of eastern Massachusetts.
- megachurches — Plural form of megachurch.
- metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
- mischanceful — unlucky
- moustachioed — Alternative spelling of moustachio\u2019d.
- muscle beach — a beach where young men display their muscles, engage in calisthenics, etc.
- mustache cup — a cup having a straight piece inside, just below the rim, for holding back a man's mustache while he is drinking.
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- neurasthenic — pertaining to or suffering from neurasthenia.
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
- orichalceous — relating to or resembling orichalc
- overpurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- picture sash — a large window sash, as for a picture window.
- plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
- pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
- polychaetous — of or relating to the genus Polychaeta
- pre-purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
- psychosexual — of or relating to the relationship of psychological and sexual phenomena.
- purchase tax — a sales tax on nonessential and luxury goods.
- quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
- ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
- rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
- safety touch — a two-point play
- schaffhausen — a canton in N Switzerland. 100 sq. mi. (259 sq. km).
- schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
- shrimp sauce — a sauce made from shrimps
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
- sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
- sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
- st.-eustache — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- state church — established church.
- supercharged — equipped with a supercharger.