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11-letter words containing h, u, m

  • chart music — songs that feature in the music charts
  • chaulmoogra — a tropical Asian tree, Taraktogenos (or Hydnocarpus) kurzii: family Flacourtiaceae
  • chenopodium — (botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Chenopodium.
  • cherry plum — a small widely planted Asian rosaceous tree, Prunus cerasifera, with white flowers and red or yellow cherry-like fruit
  • chewing gum — Chewing gum is a kind of sweet that you can chew for a long time. You do not swallow it.
  • chibougamau — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
  • chickamauga — creek in NW Ga.: site of a Civil War battle (Sept., 1863) in which Confederate forces routed the Union army
  • chimichurri — an Argentinian sauce of parsley, oregano, red chilies, lemon zest, vinegar, and olive oil, often served with grilled meat.
  • chlamydeous — (of plants) relating to or possessing sepals and petals
  • chrome alum — a violet-red crystalline substance, used as a mordant in dyeing. Formula: KCr(SO4)2.12H2O
  • chromium 51 — the radioactive isotope of chromium having a mass number 51 and a half-life of 27.8 days: used as a tracer.
  • chucklesome — amusing; full of humour
  • chum salmon — a large salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) with pale flesh, found in the N Pacific
  • church army — a voluntary Anglican organization founded in 1882 to assist the parish clergy
  • church mode — a mode belonging to a codified system of modes in use in Gregorian chant and in other music to c1600.
  • churchwoman — a female practising member of a church
  • churchwomen — Plural form of churchwoman.
  • chymiferous — containing chyme
  • clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
  • cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
  • column inch — a unit of measurement for advertising space, one inch deep and one column wide
  • cottonmouth — water moccasin
  • countermyth — a myth that conflicts with another myth
  • county home — a county poorhouse.
  • crunch time — the critical moment
  • customhouse — a building or office where customs or duties are paid and ships are cleared for entering or leaving
  • cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
  • debauchment — The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
  • debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
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  • dehumanised — Past participle of dehumanise.
  • dehumanises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehumanise.
  • dehumanized — Past participle of dehumanize.
  • dehumanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehumanize.
  • delphiniums — Plural form of delphinium.
  • demi-hunter — a watch having a hinged case with a hole in the lid permitting the time to be seen even when the lid is closed.
  • deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
  • dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
  • 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.
  • draughtsman — a checker, as used in the game of checkers.
  • draughtsmen — Plural form of draughtsman.
  • dumb sheave — a block having no sheave or other part rolling with the movement of a line.
  • dumpishness — the state of being downhearted and dejected
  • durum wheat — a wheat, Triticum turgidum, the grain of which yields flour used in making pasta.
  • dutch metal — an alloy of copper and zinc in the form of thin sheets, used as an imitation of gold leaf.
  • edrophonium — a substance, C 10 H 16 BrNO, used to reverse certain muscle-relaxing agents, such as tubocurarine, in surgical procedures: also used in the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis.
  • embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
  • emphyteusis — a continual right in a property that belongs to another
  • emphyteutic — pertaining to emphyteusis
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