11-letter words containing h, u, r, a, e
- che guevara — Ernesto [er-nes-taw] /ɛrˈnɛs tɔ/ (Show IPA), ("Che") 1928–67, Cuban revolutionist and political leader, born in Argentina.
- cheque card — In Britain, a cheque card or a cheque guarantee card is a small plastic card given to you by your bank and which you have to show when you are paying for something by cheque or when you are cashing a cheque at another bank.
- chrome alum — a violet-red crystalline substance, used as a mordant in dyeing. Formula: KCr(SO4)2.12H2O
- church rate — (formerly in England and Ireland) a compulsory assessment imposed on the parishioners' holdings of houses or land in order to repair the parish church and maintain its services.
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
- crazy house — an asylum for people with psychiatric disorders
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- 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
- draughtiest — Superlative form of draughty.
- draughtsmen — Plural form of draughtsman.
- dreadnaught — 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.
- 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.
- dunderheads — Plural form of dunderhead.
- durum wheat — a wheat, Triticum turgidum, the grain of which yields flour used in making pasta.
- dutch treat — a meal or entertainment for which each person pays his or her own expenses.
- earth auger — a drill for boring holes in the ground, as to tap springs.
- earthquakes — Plural form of earthquake.
- eave trough — gutter (def 3).
- eavestrough — gutter (def 3).
- eleutherian — giving or protecting freedom
- escarmouche — a skirmish
- eucharistic — (Theosophy) Pertaining to the Eucharist.
- euchromatin — the part of a chromosome that constitutes the major genes and does not stain strongly with basic dyes when the cell is not dividing
- euryphagous — eating a wide variety of foods
- eurythermal — (of organisms) able to tolerate a wide range of temperatures in the environment
- fair enough — that is reasonable
- fear-naught — a stout woolen cloth for overcoats.
- feather cut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- feather-cut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
- fish manure — solid waste from fish, used as a fertilizer
- four-handed — involving four hands or players, as a game at cards: Bridge is usually a four-handed game.
- fourth-rate — of very low quality, value, or rank
- frame house — a house constructed with a skeleton framework of timber, as the ordinary wooden house.
- furaldehyde — either of two aldehydes derived from furan, esp 2-furaldehyde
- furtherance — the act of furthering; promotion; advancement.
- goddaughter — a female godchild.
- grangemouth — a port in Scotland, in Falkirk council area: now Scotland's second port, with oil refineries, shipyards, and chemical industries. Pop: 17 771 (2001)
- groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
- guardhouses — Plural form of guardhouse.
- gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- hair-curler — a cylindrical device, usually electronic and heated, used to curl the hair
- hairbrushes — Plural form of hairbrush.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-hunter — a watch with a hinged lid in which a small circular opening or crystal allows the approximate time to be read
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.