14-letter words containing h, u, i
- british guiana — Guyana
- british museum — a museum in London, founded in 1753: contains one of the world's richest collections of antiquities and (until 1997) most of the British Library
- bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
- budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
- bunching onion — a multistemmed onion plant resembling the scallion that does not form a real bulb, used in Asian cookery.
- business hours — Business hours are the hours of the day in which a shop or a company is open for business.
- business lunch — a lunch at which business is discussed or transacted
- butterfly fish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- cahokia mounds — the largest group of prehistoric Indian earthworks in the US, located northeast of East St Louis
- canonical hour — one of the seven prayer times appointed for each day by canon law
- captain crunch — 1. (person) ("Cap'n Crunch") An early 1970s hacker/phreaker/phacker who used a free whistle included with "Cap'n Crunch" breakfast cereal to fake pay phone system tones and make large quantities of free phone calls. Also alludes to "crunch". 2. (After the above) wardialer. 3. Reportedly, a program which crashes a computer by overloading the interrupt stack.
- carriage house — coach house.
- catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
- caustic potash — potassium hydroxide
- ch'iu ch'u-chi — (Ch'ang Ch'un) 1148–1227, Chinese Taoist philosopher and author.
- chauvinist pig — a sexist man
- check-out time — the time by which one has to check out of a hotel
- chemical abuse — the habitual use of a mood-altering drug, alcoholic beverage, etc.
- chest-thumping — the act or practice of boasting.
- chicken turtle — an edible, freshwater turtle, Deirochelys reticularia, of the southeastern U.S., characterized by a long neck and by the network of fine, yellow lines marking the dark carapace.
- child guidance — the counselling of emotionally disturbed children
- chinese houses — a plant, Collinsia heterophylla, of the figwort family, native to California, having clusters of double-lipped purple and white flowers.
- chinese puzzle — an intricate puzzle, esp one consisting of boxes within boxes
- chivalrousness — The state of being chivalrous.
- chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
- chlorosulfuric — (inorganic chemistry) Of or pertaining to chlorosulfuric acid or its derivatives.
- chondrocranium — the cartilaginous structure that, in early development, envelops the brain
- choroid plexus — a multilobed vascular membrane, projecting into the cerebral ventricles, that secretes cerebrospinal fluid
- christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- christmas bush — any of various trees or shrubs flowering at Christmas and used for decoration
- christmas club — a savings account in a bank in which regular deposits are made, usually throughout one year, as to provide funds for Christmas shopping.
- chromium steel — a very hard alloy steel containing chromium
- church council — (in certain Lutheran churches) a body of lay delegates chosen from the congregation and charged with supporting the pastor in religious instruction, contributions to the church, etc.
- church integer — (theory) A representation of integers as functions invented by Alonzo Church, inventor of lambda-calculus. The integer N is represented as a higher-order function which applies a given function N times to a given expression. In the pure lambda-calculus there are no constants but numbers can be represented by Church integers. A Haskell function to return a given Church integer could be written: unchurch c = c (+1) 0 See also von Neumann integer.
- church service — an instance of a religious service in a church
- church visible — the entire body of Christian believers on earth.
- church wedding — a wedding ceremony performed in a church and having a religious rather than civil content
- circuit switch — circuit switching
- circular light — light that is circularly polarized.
- circular pitch — relative point, position, or degree: a high pitch of excitement.
- citrus heights — a city in central California, near Sacramento.
- claustrophilia — abnormal pleasure derived from being in a confined space
- claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
- claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
- clavicytherium — a kind of harpsichord
- clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- cleistothecium — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
- clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).